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Florida · Aircraft owners and operators
Who controls
Who controls
the flight?
Operational control decides which rules a flight runs under. Get it wrong and a private flight becomes illegal charter — with the owner exposed and an insurer entitled to decline the claim. We write it down before anything happens.
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What we do
Four services, one threshold question
Who holds operational control is settled in writing before we do anything in relation to a flight.
Aircraft management
Managing an aircraft on an owner's behalf, with operational control allocated explicitly.
See the programArrangement review
Reviewing how an arrangement is structured against the line between private and commercial operation.
See the programVendor coordination
Coordinating maintenance, avionics and service providers, all of them certificated.
See the programInsurance scope support
Helping owners understand what their policy actually covers, and what voids it.
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How it works
How we work
Establish in writing who holds operational control before anything else, decline arrangements that would make a held-out flight an unauthorized operation, refer certificated work to certificated providers, and read the insurance against actual use.
Operational control, in writing
Allocated explicitly, not left to a management clause.
Structure reviewed
Against the line between private and commercial operation.
Managed and reported
Vendors coordinated, records kept, spending reported.
Working together
Ways to work with us
Quoted per arrangement or per review after a first conversation. Certificated work is referred and billed by that provider.
A single review
An arrangement or a policy, reviewed in writing.
- Documents read properly
- Practice compared to paperwork
- Findings in writing
- Referral where needed
- Fixed fee agreed
Ongoing management
Management support for an owner, month to month.
- Operational control documented
- Vendor coordination
- Records kept properly
- Budget tracked and reported
- One point of contact
What we will not do
Said plainly, because the exposure is the owner's.
- No holding out of flights
- No illegal charter structures
- No maintenance performed
- No flight instruction
- No authorizing any flight
Every engagement is quoted after a free consultation. No subscription.
How we work
A management company that is not an air carrier
DN2AVIATION LLC is a Florida limited liability company with document number L18000254739 on public record with the Florida Division of Corporations, formed in 2018. The work is aircraft management and aviation support for owners: oversight, coordination, records and budgets.
The question that governs everything is who holds operational control, meaning authority over initiating, conducting and terminating a flight. It determines which operating rules apply. A management arrangement under which the manager exercises that control while flights are held out for compensation is an unauthorized commercial operation — illegal charter — regardless of what the paperwork is called or what anyone intended. The FAA treats it as an enforcement priority, and the exposure reaches the owner, not just an operator. Worse in practice, a flight conducted outside the rules it was presented under may fall outside the insurance policy, leaving a claim declined at the worst possible moment. We are not an air carrier, we do not hold out flights, we perform no maintenance and no flight instruction, and we decline arrangements that would cross that line.
Frequently asked
The questions we get most
What is operational control, and why does it matter so much?
It is the authority to initiate, conduct or terminate a flight. Which party holds it determines which operating rules the flight runs under. If a manager holds operational control and the flight is being held out for compensation, that is commercial air transportation requiring an air carrier certificate — whatever the agreement is titled. That is why we write the allocation down rather than leaving it to a general management clause.
Someone has offered us an arrangement with the aircraft and a crew. Is that a lease?
Be careful. An arrangement providing both an aircraft and crew generally amounts to air transportation rather than a lease of equipment, which puts it in certificated territory. Arrangements of that shape are regularly presented as leases to owners who have no reason to know the distinction. We will read what you have been offered and tell you what it actually is.
Why would illegal charter be my problem rather than the operator's?
Because enforcement exposure reaches the owner, and because of the insurance. An aviation policy is underwritten for a particular use. A flight operated outside the rules it was presented under can fall outside the policy, which means that after an incident the owner may have no cover at all. That is the consequence that tends to concentrate the mind.
Can you arrange a charter flight for us?
No. We do not hold out, sell or broker air transportation. If you need commercial air transportation, the operator must hold the appropriate certificate and you contract with that operator directly. We can help you understand what you are being offered; we will not sit in the middle of it.
Can you do the maintenance or sign off the airworthiness?
No to both. Maintenance, alterations and inspections require a certificated repair station or a certificated mechanic, and we refer that work rather than perform it. Airworthiness remains the owner's responsibility and we do not certify it. We coordinate, oversee and keep the records straight.
Can you authorize a flight if the pilot is unsure?
No, and nobody in our position should. The pilot in command's authority to refuse or terminate a flight is absolute and no commercial arrangement overrides it. If a pilot is unsure, the answer is to stop. Any pressure from a management company in that moment would be exactly the wrong thing.
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