In-House Maintenance
Reduces costs, minimizes downtime, and ensures a higher standard of safety and airworthiness.
In-House
Fuel
Allows the club to operate at a lower cost basis by eliminating retail markup on fuel.
Unique
Benefits
24/7 access to executive FBO, discounted simulator time our FMX Full-Motion Sim, Access to 36 full-time CFIs for training.
Established Brand
The Silverhawk name confers instant credibility, professionalism, and trustworthiness.
The Problem
Private plane ownership is damn expensive. It locks you into a single aircraft, dealing with unpredictable costs, and often leaves you handling insurance, fuel, and it's a hobby that costs.
Current clubs flying clubs have long waitlists - often four years or more. For a new pilot, that's too long to wait to bring your significant other up in the air.
Plane insurance is $6000-$7000 a year. Hangaring fees are close to that amount. Tack on maintenance, and you're spending $25,000 a year for a plane you may fly only 10 hours a month.
Our Solution
Our fees are simple and straight forward. You only need to remember two numbers: $800 and $165. It's $800 to join (one time payment), and $165 a month. To fly the Cessna 172, it's $165 per hour. No insurance, registration, or annual fees. Simple.
Our bylaws, which you can read on this website, require us to purchase more planes before we add more members. As a non-profit, we can't pocket the cash; we must use it to grow. As such, supply will equal demand.
As a membership group, we will split the costs of hangaring, maintenance, insurance, etc. The costs don't change based on 1 owner vs 20 owners. But the costs for you will decrease substantially.
Why Us
Reserve your spot.
Unrivaled Safety
We don't outsource safety. We have 14 full-time mechanics with a combined 96 years of experience working on Cessna 172 models.
There is no other aero club that can boast those maintenance numbers.
Affordable with Perks
Our fuel, hangaring, and maintenance, are all in-house, meaning we can maintain and fuel our aircraft at a cheaper rate than our competitors.
This allows us to provide other perks - higher availability, dedicated club FBO space - and more.
Fly When You Want
Our bylaws require a strict member-to-plane ratio, that is better than any other flying club in the region.
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While our competitors offer one plane for every 26-31 members, we will keep our ratio at 20:1. More availability, more flying.
Why We Are Different
How we measure up
We have nothing negative to say about our Treasure Valley competitors. They're rockstars! But they're popularity has created long waitlists. One of them has a waitlist to get onto the four year waitlist. Enter Silverhawk.
Full Disclosure
Transparent & sustainable
Perks
Perks you’ll get
24/7 access to new FBO
Discounted Simulator Time*
More flying availability
14 Full-Time A&P Mechanics
*FAA Approved Elite Full-Motion Sim-Simulator
Goldilocks Zone
Pilots to planes ratio
Less pilots per plane means more flight availability. Exclusive “equity partnership” clubs maintain a 12:1 ratio, but are 5X the price in dues. The largest clubs in the United States maintain a 30:1 ratio, which lowers dues but causes book nightmares. We believe a 20:1 ratio is the “Goldilocks Zone.”
20 Pilots per plane will feel like 12 pilots per plane, as not all 20 pilots are ever “active” in any given month. As such, this ratio should feel like an equity partnership club, but with the dues of a larger club.