Web platform proposal · Prepared for Ken Ely · July 2026
The whole industry says “call for quote.” Your store will say add to cart.
A buy-now storefront for used jet aircraft parts — real prices, photos of the actual unit, trace paperwork on every listing, and a checkout that takes deposits on the big stuff. Familiar like NAPA. Credible like a logbook. Fast like nothing else in aviation.
Nobody has built the store this industry deserves.
Before designing yours, we researched every major player in aircraft parts. The pattern is universal: hidden prices, “request a quote” walls, and websites that predate the iPhone. The one modern exception — BAS Part Sales — proves buyers will click Buy Now on serious aircraft parts. But BAS sells pistons. The jet lane is empty.
Boeing Distribution
Replatformed in 2025 — but ordering still requires an account and a line of credit.
Closed B2B
Skylink · Dodson · Proponent
No public prices anywhere. Every single part is a phone call or an email thread.
RFQ-only
Preferred · TAS · Wentworth
Deep inventory buried behind interfaces stuck in another decade.
Dated
BAS Part Sales
Buy-now, real photos, real prices — proof the model works. Pistons only.
The opening
What buyers get
The industry
Fast Jet Parts
Public prices on every part
✕
✓
Photos of the actual serialized unit
rare
✓ 12-shot standard
Buy now with card or ACH
✕
✓
Deposit online, balance by wire
phone & email
✓ built into checkout
Freight estimate before checkout
“call us”
✓ + same-day quote
Trace docs downloadable per order
✕
✓ document vault
Self-serve order tracking
✕
✓
Used jet parts with real prices and a working cart is an open lane — and first one in owns the Google results. Every part number becomes its own landing page.
02 · The storefront
Familiar like a parts counter. Credible like a logbook.
Buyers get the patterns they already know from NAPA, AutoZone, and eBay — tuned for how jet parts actually sell: one-of-one units, condition codes, and the paperwork that closes the sale.
⌕3505837 5
3505837-7supersedes your search · SV · $2,900
3505837-50 in stock — superseded by -7
Category: Bleed air valves — Citation 560XL12 parts
Your aircraft: Citation 560XL✓ Fits your aircraft
AOG? 24/7 desk · Overnight cutoff 5:00 PM CT
When an aircraft is on the ground, minutes matter. The urgent lane is visible on every page — and the overnight cutoff counts down in real time.
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Starter Generator — Learjet 45
P/N 23085-021 · S/N 4471B · ALT 23085-020
SV · Serviceable8130-3 ✓Trace on file
TSN / TSO
3,412.6 h / 212.4 h
Removed from
Learjet 45 · s/n 45-2071
Tag date
2026-03
$8,450outright · core exchange available
Reserve with a $2,000 deposit — balance by wire. The unit comes off the market the moment you pay.
Every unit shot to a 12-photo standard — hero, angles, data plate, tags, flaws. On used parts, the photos are the sales pitch.
B Search that forgives
Dashes, spaces, typos, partial numbers — buyers still land on the part. Superseded numbers point to what you actually have.
C Built to rank
Each part number gets its own permanent page with structured data. When a mechanic Googles the PN, you’re the result.
03 · The back office
One pane of glass. The whole operation.
Orders, inventory, customers, and marketing in a single private dashboard — built around how you actually close deals, including the ones that end with a wire transfer. Click around; this is a working sketch of your cockpit.
fastjetparts.com/office — operator access
Operations
Revenue — month to date
$46,900
4 ORDERS · 1 AWAITING WIRE
Live listings
312
QTY-1 UNITS · AUTO-DELIST ON SALE
Freight quotes owed
2
SAME-BUSINESS-DAY PROMISE
PN searches this week
1,428
TOP: 23085-021 · 893970-9
Maverick Aviation LLC#1042 · STARTER GEN 23085-021
$8,450Awaiting wire · $6,450
Ridge Air Charter#1041 · TFE731 FUEL CONTROL
$23,900Deposit paid · $5,000
J. Calloway#1040 · BRAKE ASSY 5006724
$2,140Paid in full · card
Lone Star Jet Center#1039 · WINDSHIELD HEAT CTRL
$3,650Shipped · 1Z999AA1
The deposit pipeline, built in: deposit paid → pro-forma invoice with wire instructions goes out automatically → you mark the wire received → the order releases to fulfillment. No sticky notes, no “did they pay yet?”
DEPOSIT_PAID → AWAITING_WIRE → PAID_IN_FULL → PROCESSING → SHIPPED → DELIVERED
Your rule, systematized: flip any listing to deposit-required right where you set the price. Serious buyers put money down online; the balance arrives by wire before anything ships. Tire-kickers filter themselves out.
Ridge Air CharterSCOTTSDALE, AZ · 1 ORDER · DEPOSIT OPEN
▸Balance pending
Every customer record holds the full story: orders, deposits, wires, freight quotes, documents sent. When the phone rings, you already know who it is and what they’re waiting on.
Built on a modern stack — Next.js storefront, Postgres database, Stripe payments — server-rendered for the kind of speed McMaster-Carr is famous for, with every part number a permanent, rankable page.
PHASE 1
The storefront
Week 1
Everything a buyer touches — live and selling while the back office is still being fitted.
Serialized catalog — one listing per physical unit, auto-delist on sale
Deposit-to-order flow with automatic pro-forma invoice
Live insured overnight rates + freight estimates + quote requests
Basic listing entry — inventory grows from day one
Order confirmation & status emails
PHASE 2
The back office
Week 2
The single pane of glass, complete.
Order pipeline with wire reconciliation — mark received, auto-release
Full inventory manager with the 12-photo uploader
Customer records & complete history
Marketing: lists, templates, campaign sends
Customer accounts: order tracking + document vault
Operations dashboard
ROADMAP
When you want them
Quoted first · your call
Live LTL freight rates at checkout
Part-watch & back-in-stock alerts
AOG hotline page + priority lane
eBay cross-listing sync
Interchange / cross-reference database
Customer resale-cert & tax exemption vault
Multi-photo bulk import tools
Anything else the business teaches us
05 · The mark
Three directions. One attitude.
Red, black, and white — your colors, used like a flight line uses them: sparingly, and only where they mean something. All three directions are built for the real world: one-color embroidery, die-cut decals, hat patches, and a website header.
Direction A
The Delta
A machined wordmark behind a swept delta — speed without cartoon flames. The delta flies solo as a decal, an app icon, a stencil on a shipping crate.
AI concept draft
Direction B
The Roundel
A turbine-fan badge in the tradition of squadron patches. Born for hats, shoulder patches, and the back of a shop shirt — reads at 3 inches or 30 feet.
AI concept draft
Direction C
The Streamer
Straight off the “REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT” ribbon every jet operator has pulled a thousand times. Instantly aviation, instantly merch — the tag becomes the brand.
AI concept draft
Note The photographic mockups are AI concept drafts for direction only. Pick a lane and it gets refined into production vector artwork — print, embroidery (DST), and cut-file ready — before anything goes on merch.
06 · Design language
Luxurious industrial. Restraint is the flex.
The site should feel like the parts do: machined, weighty, exact. We studied how Gulfstream, Breitling, and Rolls-Royce signal expensive — and the answer is never chrome. It’s discipline.
Whitespace, hairlines, and photography do the talking. Metal is suggested, never simulated — no chrome, no bevels, no neon.
Provenance — IBM Plex Mono
P/N 23085-021S/N 4471BSV SERVICEABLE8130-3 ON FILETSO 212.4
Part numbers set like a Breitling reference — because in this business, provenance is the luxury.
Always
One red per screen — the eye goes where the money is
Mono type for every number that matters
Photograph real metal; hairline rules everywhere else
Motion under 400ms. Nothing bounces.
Never
Chrome gradients or fake metal textures
Red body text, or red by the acre
Coupon-site clutter and countdown gimmicks
Stock photos of someone else’s inventory
07 · Investment
One thousand dollars. Yes, really.
This isn’t an agency invoice with three layers of account managers baked in. It’s a builder’s price from someone who wants this thing to exist as much as you do.
$1,000
Flat · one-time · the entire build
$20/ month — hosting & care
Managed hosting on my server — fast, monitored, backed up
Security updates & maintenance included
Small changes and support — free
Major additions quoted in writing before any work begins
No contract. Cancel anytime — the site is yours, and it moves with you to any compatible host. I’ll even help you move it. No surprises: if it’s bigger than a small change, you get a quote first.
The eBay math
Sell one $8,000 starter-generator on eBay≈ $1,060 in fees
Sell it on fastjetparts.com$0 in fees
eBay’s parts categories run ~13% in final-value fees. One mid-size sale costs more than this entire build.
The Wix math
Your domain today, parked at Wix$9/mo for a placeholder
Say go and pick a logo direction. We transfer fastjetparts.com off Wix to a real registrar and point it at the new server — your Google email keeps working; the mail records move with it.
Week 1 · Build
Storefront live
Catalog, search, product pages, cart, deposits, freight quotes. You start photographing and listing inventory immediately — the first sale can land inside week one.
Week 2 · Launch
Full operation
The back office lands: order pipeline with wire tracking, inventory manager, customer records, marketing tools. Everything live at fastjetparts.com — one pane of glass, complete.
The honest fine print: this pace depends on quick turnarounds on your side — the logo pick, part photos, and answers when I ask. Fast replies, fast launch; slow replies are the only thing that moves these dates.
09 · Next steps
Say go.
Pick a logo direction A, B, or C — it comes back as refined production artwork
Unlock the domain 15 guided minutes to move fastjetparts.com off Wix — email-safe
Build week begins Live at fastjetparts.com in one to two weeks
Dan Horn
Web strategy, design & build. This proposal, the research behind it, and the staging site you’re reading were produced start-to-finish as a working preview of the real thing.
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