Aviation directory guide 2026: where to list your aviation company, by audience, cost and country

There is no single place where an aviation company should be listed. The directory that brings enquiries to a charter operator does nothing for a parts distributor, and the marketplace a repair station needs is behind a login that no buyer of flight training will ever see. This guide goes through the aviation directories, marketplaces and association directories we checked in October 2026, and for each one says who it suits, what it costs as published, and what a profile includes. It covers aviation directories used in the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, and the global ones that work everywhere.

Two rules for reading it. Prices are what each site showed on 15 October 2026; where a site does not publish one we write "price on request" rather than guess. Audience figures are each site's own claims. The Flying Engineer runs one of the directories on this list, so it appears in the table on the same terms as everyone else.

Our earlier article on aviation directories recorded what AI assistants answered when asked where to list a company. This one is the reference list behind it, organised by type of business.

Aviation directories and marketplaces compared

Prices as of October 2026. "No charge" means the basic entry has no fee; most of these sites sell upgrades on top of it.

Directory	Best for	Cost as found	What a profile includes
Broad aviation directories
GlobalAir.com	Charter, air ambulance, MRO, parts, flight schools, FBOs	Basic entry at no charge; Bold listing US$120 a year	Name, one category, address, phone, link, short description; Bold goes to the top of its category
The Flying Engineer	Any aviation or aerospace company; 15,300+ company pages	Starter US$79 a year; Lifetime US$99 once; Featured US$199 once	Page with description, contacts, map, link, structured data, quote requests by email; 3, 5 or 20 photos by plan; Featured adds top placement, badge, 3 social posts, a Partner Spotlight article and a press release
AviationJobSearch	Any aviation employer	Company profile at no charge; job post £300 for 30 days	Logo, location, verification badge, description, active jobs; 3,000+ companies (their number)
Aviation Week Marketplace	MRO, parts, manufacturers, services, ground handling	Profile at no charge for 12 months; Premium tiers on request	Profile, categories, products; Premium adds logo priority, banner, newsletter spotlight
AviationPros Buyer's Guide	MRO, FBOs, ground support, airport suppliers	Profile at no charge; advertising by media kit	Logo, address, contacts, link, description; your press releases and articles gathered under it
AvPay	FBOs, MRO, charter, training, parts; 30+ categories	US$250 for 12 months	Profile with enquiry, phone and WhatsApp buttons; up to 20 product or service listings
Charter marketplaces
Avinode	Charter operators with an AOC, brokers	US$318 or EUR 286 a month on a 6 or 12 month prepaid contract	Fleet shown to brokers, scheduling integrations, pricing benchmarks; no public pages
Aviapages	Charter operators, brokers, FBOs	Marketplace listing, commission based; PRO plans on their pricing page	Operator profile, fleet, quote requests, flight time estimator
Avi-Go	Charter operators	Aircraft listing at no charge until 31 December 2026 (their page)	Aircraft listing; operator sets price and availability
Charter Hub (Sandhills)	Part 135 operators, FBOs	Price on request	Operator catalogue, empty legs, FBO finder, quote requests
Air Charter Guide (Aviation Week)	Charter operators and brokers, 148 countries	Price on request	Entry in the print and online guide, updated twice a year
FBO and airport services
AC-U-KWIK (Aviation Week)	FBOs, handlers, caterers, fuel, maintenance at airports	Basic entry by update form, no charge stated	FBO details, services, fuel, contacts on airport pages used by crews
AirNav	FBOs, maintenance, avionics, training based at an airport	From US$30 a year, varies by airport and level	Entry on the airport page with services, contacts, link; gold shows a logo
FltPlan.com (Garmin)	FBOs	Logo package about US$650 a year; basic terms not published	Logo, link, fuel brand, description, position on the airport diagram, photos, shown in FltPlan Go
JETNET Aerodex	FBOs, MRO, service providers to business aviation	Subscriber data product; provider terms not published	Provider entry in data used by brokers and operators
Parts and MRO marketplaces
ILS	Parts suppliers, distributors, repair stations	Annual subscription, price on request	Inventory and capability listings searched by airlines and MROs; RFQs; no public pages
PartsBase	Parts suppliers, MRO, aircraft and engine sellers	Membership on request; PBLister US$15 a month for aircraft and engines	Inventory listing, RFQs, advertising with analytics
Locatory	Parts suppliers, MRO, equipment	Pro US$2,000 a year; Premium US$2,800 a year; Enterprise on request	Inventory and capability listing, RFQ tools, public supplier profile
StockMarket.aero	Parts suppliers, MRO capabilities	No charge for buyers and sellers (their site)	Vendor profile, inventory lines, capabilities, unlimited RFQs; 2,300+ vendors (their number)
Manufacturers and suppliers
Airframer	Suppliers to active aircraft programmes	Basic entry at no charge; Enhanced £950 a year	Entry under programmes supplied; Enhanced adds 150 word profile, logo, gallery, contacts
AeroExpo (VirtualExpo)	Equipment manufacturers and distributors	Price on request	Product catalogue in nine languages, showcase, enquiries; 320,000 buyers a month (their claim)
Airport Suppliers	Airport equipment and service suppliers	Price on request	Supplier profile, products, news, enquiries
Airport-technology and Aerospace-technology (GlobalData)	Airport suppliers, aerospace manufacturers, MRO	Paid packages, price on request	Profile, press releases, white papers, products on a news site
eVTOL.news directory (Vertical Flight Society)	eVTOL and advanced air mobility developers	No charge; updates by email	Aircraft entry with specifications, photos, company; 1,100+ concepts
Flight training
FlightSchoolList.com	Flight schools	No charge (their FAQ)	School profile, logo, airport, programmes, link; claims reviewed
AOPA Airport Directory	US flight schools, clubs, airport businesses	No charge, by request to AOPA	Entry on each airport page, reviews, flight school finder
FLYING Magazine Flight School Finder	US flight schools	Not published; contact the magazine	School matched to a student's goals, pace and budget
Association member directories
NBAA Member Directory	Business aviation vendors, charter, FBOs, MRO	Dues US$850 to US$5,935 by revenue; upgrades US$295 to US$1,100 a year	Profile, contacts, categories; members only
EBAA	European operators, FBOs, suppliers	Membership, fee on request	Public members directory entry; 500+ members
BBGA (UK)	UK business and general aviation	Membership, fee on request; includes EBAA	Member and industry directory entries; about 180 members
NATA	US FBOs, charter, maintenance, fuel, training	Dues from US$455; associate US$1,450 or US$2,950	Members only directory; about 3,700 members (their number)
ARSA	Repair stations	Dues US$600 to US$5,000 by size; associate US$3,600	Public member directory entry
ASA	Parts distributors, suppliers, repair stations	Dues table on their site	Member directory online and in print
VAI (ex HAI)	Helicopter operators, manufacturers, suppliers	Operators US$400 to US$3,400; suppliers US$350 to US$14,175	Public membership directory, VERTICON access
AAMS	Air ambulance programmes	US$2,200 per base (1 to 10 bases)	Member listing, 600+ programmes, events
GAMA, ADS Group, ARPAS-UK	GA manufacturers; UK aerospace and defence; UK drone businesses	Membership; GAMA needs board approval and sales over US$2.5m	Member directory entries

Charter operators and brokers

Charter has the clearest split between marketplaces and directories. Avinode is where brokers search for aircraft, and an operator with an AOC pays a monthly membership to be found there; Aviapages, Avi-Go and Charter Hub work in similar ways. None of them is a public profile that a passenger or an assistant will read; they are trading platforms. Air Charter Guide, from Aviation Week, is the long standing reference for operators and brokers.

Alongside those, a charter company benefits from public pages that describe it in plain words: GlobalAir's charter and air ambulance categories, The Flying Engineer, AviationJobSearch if it hires crew, Trustpilot for reviews, and the association directory if it is a member of NBAA, EBAA or BBGA. Air ambulance operators have one more: AAMS, if they join.

MRO and repair stations

Repair stations have the widest choice. Aviation Week Marketplace and the AviationPros Buyer's Guide both have a basic entry at no charge and are what airlines and operators read when they look for capability. GlobalAir and The Flying Engineer cover the general public profile. StockMarket.aero lists capabilities at no charge, and Locatory, ILS and PartsBase are the paid marketplaces where RFQs arrive; whether a subscription pays back depends on how much work comes from airline and lessor purchasing teams. ARSA's public directory is worth completing if the station is a member.

Parts suppliers and distributors

For parts, the question is where buyers search for part numbers. ILS and PartsBase are the established subscription marketplaces with prices on request; Locatory publishes its plans (US$2,000 and US$2,800 a year); StockMarket.aero takes inventory lines at no charge. These are different from directories: a buyer on them searches for a part, not a company. For the company profile itself, Aviation Week Marketplace, GlobalAir, The Flying Engineer and the general B2B indexes (Kompass, Europages, Thomasnet for North America) are the places a buyer checks before sending a purchase order. Airframer suits suppliers that can name an active aircraft programme they supply.

Flight schools

Flight schools are found locally, so the Google Business Profile, Bing Places and Apple Business Connect matter more than for any other type here. On the aviation side, FlightSchoolList.com and the AOPA Airport Directory both list schools at no charge, AirNav takes schools based at an airport from US$30 a year, and FLYING Magazine runs a finder that matches schools to students. GlobalAir has a flight school category, and The Flying Engineer lists schools by country. AviationJobSearch helps a school that hires instructors.

FBOs and ground handling

Crews look up FBOs in flight planning tools and airport references, so AC-U-KWIK (basic entry by update form), AirNav (from US$30 a year) and FltPlan.com (logo package about US$650 a year) are the three that reach pilots directly. AvPay and the AviationPros Buyer's Guide add a company profile, and NATA's directory is there for US members. JETNET's Aerodex data reaches brokers and operators; the terms for providers to submit entries are not published, so ask.

Manufacturers and suppliers

Manufacturers and equipment suppliers have the most expensive options and the least published pricing. AeroExpo, Airport Suppliers and the GlobalData news sites (Airport-technology, Aerospace-technology) sell profile packages on request. Airframer has a basic entry at no charge and an enhanced one at £950 a year. Aviation Week Marketplace is the standard profile for this group. For eVTOL developers, the eVTOL.news directory is the reference everyone cites and costs nothing. GAMA and ADS Group directories come with membership and strict eligibility.

Association directories: a note

Membership directories are listed above for completeness. Nobody joins an association for the directory entry; it is a by-product of membership, and several are only visible to other members. If you are already a member, complete the profile fully, because members do use them to find vendors. If you are not, the dues are a membership decision, not a listing decision.

General profiles every aviation company needs

Outside aviation, four profiles are read by search engines and AI assistants more than any aviation directory: a Google Business Profile (with the Bing Places import from it), Apple Business Connect, a LinkedIn company page and a Crunchbase entry, all at no charge for a basic entry. For B2B suppliers, Kompass, Europages and Thomasnet (North America) are the indexes procurement teams search. A Dun & Bradstreet D-U-N-S number is not a directory, but corporate and government buyers ask for it at onboarding.

Where The Flying Engineer fits

We run a directory of 15,300+ aviation and aerospace company pages by category and country, an events calendar of 450+ air shows, conferences and exhibitions, and guides like this one. A company page carries a description, contacts, a map, a website link and structured data that search engines and AI assistants can read, plus quote requests by email. Starter is US$79 a year, Lifetime US$99 once and Featured US$199 once; the table above says what each includes. It is one option among the ones above: a charter operator still needs Avinode, a parts seller still needs ILS or PartsBase, and every company still needs the four general profiles.

What a listing does for AI visibility, honestly

AI assistants describe companies from the public pages they can read, and they are more confident when several trusted pages say the same thing: the same company name, the same address and phone, the same services, the same website. A directory entry is one such page. Three or four consistent entries, on sites the assistant can actually read, give it something to work from. One entry on its own, with a different company name from the one on your website, gives it little.

Not every site can be read by every assistant. We checked each site's robots.txt on 15 October 2026 for the main AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, CCBot and Google-Extended). GlobalAir disallows all six, so its pages stay indexed by Google but are unlikely to be fetched live by an assistant. Airframer disallows GPTBot and CCBot. LinkedIn blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended, although assistants still know companies from LinkedIn through Bing and training data. Kompass disallows ClaudeBot. Avinode, ILS, PartsBase, NBAA Connect and NATA keep their data behind a login, so assistants cannot read them at all. We found no AI crawler blocks on AviationJobSearch, Aviation Week Marketplace, AviationPros, AvPay, StockMarket.aero, Locatory, FlightSchoolList, Trustpilot, Crunchbase or Europages. Robots files change, so check again before you rely on this.

And a listing alone guarantees nothing. No directory, ours included, can promise that an assistant will name your company. What a listing does is make your company legible: a consistent, public, readable description that an assistant or a search engine can find and cite. The rest depends on your own website, on what customers and the press say about you, and on the question the user asks.

A short checklist before you list anywhere

• Use exactly the same company name, address, phone and website on every profile.
• Write one description of 50 to 100 words that says what you do, for whom and where, and reuse it everywhere; most sites also want a one line version.
• Pick the categories that match your approvals and your actual services, not the ones you hope to grow into.
• Upload a logo and real photos of your aircraft, hangar or people.
• Keep the listing URLs in one document and check them once a year.
• Start with the entries at no charge for your type, then add the paid marketplaces your buyers actually use.