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Categories & Types

Aircraft categories and the aircraft types inside them — the classification pricing, facts, certificates and maintenance build on.

This page is for club administrators. As a pilot you don't need it — go to the Pilot guide.

What it is

A category — glider, motorplane, ultralight — groups the types (models) that belong to it, such as ASK-21 or Cessna C-172. Every club aircraft has a type, and every type sits in one category.

  • A category is Motorized or not, set when it is created. Motorized aircraft always run their engine.
  • A type in a non-motorized category is a Single seater or Double seater.

External and privately owned aircraft don’t use the club’s type list. They carry a free-text type and a category, so category-level rules still reach them, but type-level rules and maintenance don’t.

The classification is used by:

Rules point to categories and types by identity, not by name, so renaming one doesn’t break the rules that use it.

yourclub.aeroclubhq.com/aircraft-categories
Aircraft categories with their nested types

How to use it

  • Add a category — the + button → Add Category: name and Motorized.
  • Add a type — Add type on a category, or the + button → Add Type: category, name and seating.
  • Rename — categories and types, from their menus. For a type, the same form moves it to another category or changes its seating. A type can’t be made single-seat once flights have recorded a second crew member on it.
  • Deactivate / Reactivate — categories and types. Deactivating a category doesn’t deactivate its types.
  • Delete a type — only while no aircraft uses it; otherwise deactivate it.
  • Open a type — Manage shows its components and checks: those Inherited from the category or the whole fleet, and those specific to the type. You can add a component or a check for the type from here.
yourclub.aeroclubhq.com/aircraft-categories/{id}
Aircraft type page with inherited and type-specific components and checks
  • Aircraft — the individual aircraft classified by these types.
  • Components — the maintenance parts and checks for each scope.
  • Pricing Rules — rules that target a category or type.
← Components