A pilot who got tired
of bad tools.
ClubHanger started as a personal frustration and became something I hope is useful for the whole community.
The view that made all the research worthwhile.
The search that shouldn't be this hard.
I'm a pilot. Not a professional one — the kind who rents on weekends, obsesses over weather apps at 10pm, and has been dreaming about having more consistent access to an airplane for years.
Like a lot of GA pilots, I got to a point where renting stopped making sense. The economics of owning alone didn't either. A partnership seemed like the obvious answer — split the costs, share the schedule, keep flying.
So I went looking. And what I found was a mess.
Reddit posts with no airport listed. Barnstormers listings with specs scattered across paragraph-long descriptions. Partnership threads buried three pages deep in aviation forums, half of them years old. Trade-A-Plane with pricing listed as "call for details." Websites that haven't been redesigned since 2008.
The information existed somewhere. Getting to it was exhausting.
I spent weeks piecing together what a fair partnership structure even looked like — what buy-ins were normal, what monthly costs were reasonable, what airports had active clubs. None of that should require weeks. It should require a search bar.
What was broken.
These weren't minor inconveniences. They were the reason good partnerships went unfound and good planes went unsold.
Partnerships scattered everywhere
Reddit posts, expired forum threads, word-of-mouth at the FBO. There's no single place to find who's looking for a partner at your home field.
No search by home airport
The few partnership listings that do exist have no searchable location. You're manually reading dozens of posts to find out if any are even based within driving distance.
Listing sites built for browsing, not comparing
Barnstormers and Trade-A-Plane are great for sellers. For buyers, the data is inconsistent — TTAF buried in paragraph four, price is "call for details," damage history nowhere to be found.
No cost transparency on partnerships
Monthly fixed, wet rate, buy-in — none of it standardized. You spend weeks emailing back and forth to piece together what a partnership actually costs.
I'm really building this for the community.
ClubHanger isn't a startup play. It's a tool I wished existed when I was searching, so I built it — and I'm sharing it because every pilot going through that search deserves better than what's out there today.
The goal is simple: if you're a pilot looking for a partner or a plane, this should be the first place you check. Not Reddit. Not three different sites with three different listing formats. Here.
Partnership listings are free to post. Searching is free. I want to keep as much of this free as long as possible, because the community is better when information flows easily.
Eventually, I'd love for this to grow into a full hub for the GA community — hangars, CFIs, maintenance shops, flight schools. But that all starts with solving the core problem first: helping pilots find their next aircraft.
If this helps even one pilot find their airplane — or find the right partner to share one — it was worth building.
What we're building toward.
The roadmap, in plain English.
Partnership listings
Searchable by airport, cost, aircraft type, and requirements.
Aircraft for sale
Aggregated listings with structured specs and FAA registry data.
Saved searches + alerts
Get notified when a listing matching your criteria is posted.
Hangar listings
Find available hangar space near your home airport.
CFI directory
Find flight instructors by airport, rating, and availability.
Community hub
The full-stack resource for the GA community.
Let's build this together.
Post your partnership. Share the site with someone who's searching. Tell me what's missing. The community makes this what it should be.