GoFBO for Part 135
GoFBO adds Part 135 to the scheduling, crew, briefings and flight logs you already run: each leg flown 91 or 135, duty and rest checked while you build the trip, signed releases with the load manifest, flight locating, and records an inspector can follow. License only the tails you fly under 135.
Every Part 135 operator needs a safety management system and a declaration of compliance with the FAA by May 28, 2027. GoFBO runs yours where the flying already is: a high FRAT, a duty exceedance, an overdue flight or an MEL deferral starts a safety report in one click, and every step is kept in records that can't be quietly changed. When you're ready, GoFBO checks you against Part 5 and writes the declaration letter. Included with Part 135.
Written from a starting draft, signed by your accountable executive in GoFBO, read by everyone.
A hazard register on a 5×5 matrix, rated before and after controls, and changes reviewed before they start.
Confidential reports, investigations, internal audits and safety objectives you can measure.
SMS training records with recurrent due dates, and safety bulletins everyone marks read.
“Bill and Joe want to go to the next Bears game.” That's the whole request. Forward the customer's text to GoFBO, forward the email, or paste it in. GoFBO looks up the game, picks the airport, works out when to land and when to leave, adds the fuel stop, asks the one thing nobody said, and has a Requested trip waiting for you.
“Bill and Joe want to go to the next Bears game.”
"Bill and Joe" is two passengers. "The next Bears game" is an event it has to look up.
2 passengers · event: the next Bears gameIt searches the web for the Bears' next game: the date, the kickoff and the stadium. An away game sends it to that stadium instead.
Sun, Oct 25 · 3:25 PM kickoff · Soldier Field, ChicagoEvery airport within 45 nm of Soldier Field is checked for the runway this aircraft needs, the drive to the stadium and FBOs you already use.
KMDW Midway · 35 min drive · 6,522 ft runwayKickoff, less the drive, less 30 minutes at the FBO to unload and find the car.
Land KMDW by 2:20 PM CDTThe aircraft free that weekend, with flight times from its own cruise speed, worked back to a departure time in Boise's time zone.
N350SA · wheels up KBOI 8:05 AM MDTBoise to Midway is 1,255 nm and the King Air is planned at 1,000 nm, so it stops near halfway, at an airport with the runway and an FBO, your fuel program's first.
Fuel stop KPIR Pierre · 45 min on the groundNobody said when they're coming home, so GoFBO asks by text or email. The answer plans the return.
"Monday morning around 9" → home Mon, Oct 26 via KPIRA Requested trip lands on the dashboard and every scheduler is told. Add the crew, check the times, click Schedule. Nothing is scheduled by itself.
SAW-1047 · Requested · waiting for youText it to your GoFBO number, forward the email to [email protected], or paste it into AI Trip Builder on the dashboard.
The event, the airport, the times, the fuel stops, and the aircraft when only one fits. Anything a trip can't be booked without (the day, how many are going, when they fly home) is asked by text or email, and the answer updates the trip.
It lands on the dashboard as a Requested trip and every scheduler is told. Add crew, check the times, click Schedule. Duty, rest and the release still apply before it flies.
Only your people, and nothing scheduled by itself. Requests are accepted only from people in your GoFBO account who can create or request trips: email has to pass SPF or DKIM, and texts have to come from a phone number that person has agreed to use with GoFBO. Every trip waits as Requested until a scheduler schedules it. Part of the AI add-on, with potential delay detection and crew destination research.
The METAR and TAF for departure, destination and alternate are kept with the release. Alternate minimums under 135.223 and the 60% runway rule are checked, and the release is signed by a named person with release authority.
Crew, passengers, bags and fuel become the load manifest. Zero fuel, takeoff and landing are plotted on the aircraft's own CG envelope, and anything outside it is flagged in red before anyone signs.
Flight time, duty and rest for every pilot, quarter, two quarters and year, including their Part 91 flying, with anything over a limit called out and printable for the inspector.
Crew tap Departed and Arrived from their phone. Released, airborne and arrived flights are on one board, and an overdue flight emails everyone with release authority.
Each one tied to the regulation it helps you meet. Pick one for a short walkthrough.
Part 5 SMS, ready before May 28, 2027.
How it worksSigned with the weather and runway checks done.
How it worksLoad manifest on your CG envelope.
How it works135.267 checked while you schedule.
How it worksEvery flight on one board, overdue alerts.
How it worksChecks, minimums and currency.
How it worksDeferrals with fix-by dates.
How it worksLicense only the tails you fly under 135. Owner legs and positioning stay Part 91 on the same trip, and still count toward duty.
Director of Operations, Chief Pilot, Director of Maintenance and the rest, each with the access their job needs. Release authority goes to named people, not a role.
Flight logs, duty, the certificate profile and your settings keep every version. Nothing in the compliance history can be edited or deleted.
Flight time, duty and rest; pilot records and checks; the aircraft list; flights flown with crew and block times; releases and manifests; flight locating; mechanical irregularities.
Registration, airworthiness and insurance with expiry dates and scans, and the insurer's pilot minimums checked against every pilot you assign.
Longest duty day, rest before duty, flight time and legs per duty, and days off in a rolling window. Warn or block each one, for Part 135 trips or all flying.
Certificate number, kind of operation, FSDO, your principal inspectors and DOT registration, kept with the rest of your records.
Every operator draws the line in a different place. Choose whether a duty, rest or qualification problem shows as a warning for the scheduler to weigh, or stops a Part 135 trip from being scheduled until it's fixed. Either way the reason and the regulation are spelled out on the trip, and the choice is kept in your compliance history.
In the order operators have asked for them. Tell us what you need next and it moves up the list.
Quotes priced from your rates, contracts with your DOT registration, and invoices that flow from the trip.
Most charter operators also fly owner trips, positioning legs and maintenance ferries. GoFBO keeps all of it on one calendar with one crew list, so a Part 91 leg yesterday still counts toward a pilot's duty and rest today, and nobody keeps a second spreadsheet to find out.
Part 135 is an add-on to any GoFBO plan, licensed per tail. See the plans.
Add Part 135 to any package and license only the tails you fly under 135. The rest of your fleet stays Part 91, and each trip leg on a 135 aircraft can still be flown under Part 91 for owner or positioning flights.
As pilots, we kept two paper logs and four Excel spreadsheets for the same flights. Trips were planned in group texts we weren't even on. Our flight coordinator was overwhelmed, and so were we: we often didn't know how many passengers were coming, let alone who they were, when we were leaving, or sometimes even where the customer wanted to go, until the very last second.
One place for the whole trip, so the crew knows what the office knows, when the office knows it.
The pilots behind GoFBO · Boise, Idaho
Two paper logs and four Excel spreadsheets for the same flights.
One flight log. Photograph the Hobbs and the fuel; totals, reports and maintenance update themselves.
The trip lives in a group text you're not even on.
Every crew member sees the trip, who's flying and every change, on their own phone, as it happens.
A flight coordinator buried in calls, texts and spreadsheets.
One schedule everyone works from. Crew are asked and confirmed for them, so they can coordinate.
No passenger count, let alone a manifest.
Passengers on the trip, with the manifest and their preferences in the trip sheet before every leg.
Not knowing when you leave, or even where they want to go, until the last second.
A request becomes a trip the moment it arrives. Forward the email; every change reaches the crew live.
Try GoFBO free for 30 days with Part 135 on the tails you choose: duty and rest checks, releases, load manifests and flight locating, on your real trips. Already on GoFBO? Add Part 135 under Subscription.
No card until the trial ends. If you don't add one, your account simply pauses, with everything saved.