The Carfax for airplanes

Know the airplane before you buy it.

One missed Airworthiness Directive can ground a plane. Tailplate reads decades of paper logbooks and shows the documented evidence for what’s been done — one verified, graded report, in minutes.

Tailplate · records review
N7392Q — Cessna 182P
B
86/100
ENGINE
O-470 · 88% TBO
YEAR
1979
ADs
34 · 1 open
NTSB
clean
AD compliance
96
Engine vs TBO
72
Continuity
88
Known issues
75
illustrative — sample report
Grounded inEvery FAA Airworthiness Directive317k+ SDR defect reports95k NTSB eventsFull FAA registryPiston + turbine
The problem

40 years of paper — and one entry can cost you.

01

A shoebox of logbooks

Every maintenance action of the aircraft's life lives in stacks of handwritten paper — the one entry that matters can be missing, illegible, or buried in 1994.

02

One miss grounds the plane

Dozens of Airworthiness Directives legally must be complied with. A single unaddressed one means the aircraft isn't airworthy — a failed sale, or a five-figure surprise.

03

The only check is slow & manual

Today you pay a mechanic to read the books by hand over days. It's expensive, it doesn't scale, and it's only as thorough as one person's afternoon.

Not a valuation guess. The record.

01

Every AD, reconciled

Every applicable Airworthiness Directive matched against the actual logbook entries — and never called complied unless the records show it was.

02

The story of the airframe

Fleet-wide defect patterns from 317k FAA reports and this tail's NTSB history — the known weak points for the exact model.

03

Value, records-adjusted

A market estimate conditioned on THIS aircraft's open ADs, damage, and engine time — not an average of clean listings.

04

Minutes, not weeks

The records review a mechanic charges days for — graded, cited to the source entry, ready before you wire the deposit.

Why Tailplate

A price is a guess. The records are the truth.

A valuation tool gives you
A number.

A guess at what a clean example sells for — blind to the open AD, the gear-up, or the runout engine on this tail.

Tailplate gives you
The record behind it.

The verified compliance, damage, and life-limit truth that decides whether the number is real — and our value is built on it.

How it works
01

Identify the aircraft

Tail number, or make & model — we pull identity and resolve every applicable directive from the FAA data.

02

Add the records

Upload logbook scans or key entries in; every one is confirmed before it enters the log of record.

03

Get the verified report

A graded report, a shareable link, and a seal for the listing. Records that follow the tail at sale.

What’s hiding in the logbooks?

Run a verified records review before you buy — or look up the ADs on any model free.