Home Management
For aircraft owners
Your aircraft, on our certificate, under T7.
Crews, maintenance, compliance and accounting run by an operator that flies the same type every day — with charter revenue against the months you are not using it.
The problem
An aircraft is a business, whether you wanted one or not.
Buying the aeroplane is the simple part. What follows is a small aviation company: two or three pilots to recruit, roster and retrain; a continuing airworthiness programme to hold; insurance to place; an operations manual to keep current; and a regulator to satisfy in whichever state you chose to register.
Most owners discover this in month three. Management exists so that you make one phone call and somebody else makes the other forty — while you keep full control of who flies, when, and whether anybody else may.
Pilots, rostering and recurrent training
We recruit, type-rate and roster your crew, or bring your existing pilots onto our certificate. Recurrent simulator training twice a year, line checks, medicals and licence currency all tracked against the aircraft rather than against your diary.
Maintenance and continuing airworthiness
Continuing airworthiness managed in-house, with scheduled and unscheduled work carried out by EASA Part-145 organisations. San Marino accepts EASA, FAA, UAE GCAA and Singapore CAAS maintenance organisations on T7 aircraft without requiring separate approval, so you can put the aeroplane wherever the right shop is instead of wherever the paperwork allows.
Operations manual, SMS and the regulator
Your aircraft sits inside our approved operations manual and safety management system. Audits, findings, manual revisions and correspondence with the Civil Aviation Authority are ours to handle. You receive the outcome, not the process.
Budgets, invoices and one monthly statement
An annual operating budget agreed before the year starts, then a single monthly statement reconciling fixed costs, variable costs, fuel uplifts, handling invoices and any charter income. Fuel and handling are bought at our network rates and passed through without margin.
Charter income when the aircraft would be idle
Typical private aircraft fly under 200 hours a year. With your permission and your rules — blackout dates, minimum notice, approved passenger types — we sell the remaining availability and credit the income against your fixed costs. You keep absolute priority on your own aeroplane.
T7 registration
Why owners choose San Marino.
A small register with a full commercial rulebook, run to ICAO standards, in an OECD white-listed jurisdiction. It is used by serious operators precisely because it is unglamorous and quick.
- Nationality mark T7, followed by three to five letters or numbers — personalised, out of sequence, at no extra cost, and transferable to a different aircraft later
- Foreign individuals and foreign companies may register and hold T7 aircraft, after electing domicile with a representative resident in San Marino
- Import-tax exemption where the aircraft is owned by foreign citizens or companies, and for San Marino companies operating under a CAA-issued AOC
- No insurance tax
- Mortgages registered with the local CAA, which will not cancel a T7 registration without the mortgagee’s consent or discharge of the mortgage
- EASA, FAA, UAE GCAA and Singapore CAAS maintenance organisations accepted on T7 aircraft without formal CAA approval
- Article 83 bis agreements in place with other states, so operational oversight can follow the operator
- Private, corporate, aerial-work and commercial air transport operations all permitted
Registration, tax and regulatory positions summarised here reflect published guidance from the San Marino Civil Aviation Authority and the San Marino Aircraft Registry. They are not legal or tax advice; take your own before committing to a jurisdiction.
Onboarding
From first call to first flight.
The sequence below is what actually happens, in order. Most owners are flying under management within eight to twelve weeks, depending on the aircraft’s records.
- Step 01
Confidential review
You tell us the aircraft, its history, how you use it and what it costs you now. We come back with a written cost model and an honest view of whether management improves it.
- Step 02
Records and technical audit
A physical and documentary inspection of the airframe, engine and propeller records, plus the modification and airworthiness-directive status. Anything that will bite later surfaces here.
- Step 03
Registration and import
Deregistration from the current state, T7 application, mark reservation, mortgage registration where applicable, and the certificate of airworthiness. We manage the filings and the timeline.
- Step 04
Onto the certificate
The aircraft is added to our AOC, entered into the operations manual and the maintenance programme, insured, and crewed. Charter approval follows once the CAA has signed off.
- Step 05
Operate and report
You fly. Every month you receive one statement, one technical status summary and one utilisation report. Anything unusual reaches you by phone the same day, not by email the next quarter.