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Your aircraft where it needs to be, with the paperwork in order.
Europe-wide ferry and repositioning flights, planned end to end. Route and weather strategy, permits, customs and handling arranged in advance — and a written handover on arrival.
What this is
The flying is the short part.
A ferry leg is mostly preparation. By the time the aircraft moves, the route has been chosen around the weather rather than the map, the permits are in hand, the handling is arranged, and there is a plan for the day it does not work out.
Ferry flights carry a specific risk profile: an unfamiliar aircraft, often just out of maintenance or storage, flown by someone who has not operated it before, frequently over long legs and unfamiliar terrain. The mitigation is unglamorous — documentation checked before departure, conservative weather minima, and a willingness to leave the aircraft where it is for another day.
You get progress updates while the aircraft is moving and a written report on arrival, including anything noticed en route that the next operator ought to know about.
Scope
What the service covers.
Aircraft delivery
Collection from the seller or factory and delivery to the new operating base.
Repositioning
Moving an aircraft for maintenance, sale, storage or a change of base.
Ferry planning
Route, fuel, weather windows and alternates worked out before the aircraft is committed.
Permits and customs
Overflight and landing permissions, customs and border formalities arranged in advance.
Handling and slots
Ground handling, slots and parking coordinated so the aircraft is not waiting on the ramp.
Technical acceptance support
A pre-departure look at documentation and airworthiness status before committing to the leg.
Owner reporting
Progress updates in flight and a written handover on arrival, including anything noticed en route.
Europe-wide coverage
Legs across the European region, planned around weather rather than optimism.
Typical engagement
How a ferry leg runs.
Enquiry
Aircraft type, registration, current location, destination and the window you need it in.
Plan
Route, weather strategy, permits and a written quote before anything is committed.
Fly
The leg flown with progress updates, and a diversion plan that was made before it was needed.
Handover
Written arrival report covering the flight, the aircraft, and anything the next operator should know.
Questions
What owners ask first.
Two to three weeks is comfortable for a European leg — enough for permits, insurance confirmation and a realistic weather window. Shorter notice is often possible; what compresses badly is anything needing a permit from an authority that works to its own timescale.
The aircraft waits. Ferry flights are one of the few areas of aviation with almost no legitimate schedule pressure, which makes pressing on an unforced error. Delay expectations are set at quote stage so a slipped day is an inconvenience rather than an argument.
Normally the owner’s policy, extended to cover the ferry pilot — confirmed in writing before departure, along with any minimum hours or type experience the insurer requires. This gets checked at enquiry stage rather than discovered at the aircraft.
Often, but it depends on the aircraft, the permit conditions and the states being crossed. This needs looking at case by case, and the honest answer is sometimes that the route has to change or the aircraft has to travel by road.
Moving an aircraft?
Send the type, the registration, where it is now and where it needs to be.