Flight Department Software for Part 91 and Part 135 Teams
Sky Duty is the operational backbone for a flight department — scheduling, logbook, maintenance, expenses, and crew in one offline-first iPhone and iPad app. See who flies what, when, and at what cost, without stitching together three tools and a spreadsheet.
- Part 91 operators
- Part 135 charter
- Flying clubs
- Flight schools
- Corporate flight departments
The system of record for who flies what, when, and at what cost
Most flight operations software makes you pick a lane. A scheduling tool here, a pilot logbook there, a maintenance program in a third window, and expenses in a spreadsheet nobody wants to own. For a one-to-ten-aircraft department, that stitching is the actual job — and it is where things fall through. Sky Duty is flight operations software built the other way around: one app that runs the whole loop, so the schedule, the logbook, maintenance, expenses, and crew all reference the same records.
That is what we mean by flight department management software. It is not an EFB — Sky Duty does not do charts, approach plates, or in-flight navigation, and it does not try to replace the app you fly with. It is the ground operation: the corporate flight department software that answers "is that tail available Thursday, is it out of annual, who is current to fly it, and what did the last trip cost." For a Part 91 flight department or a small Part 135 charter, that is the difference between running the operation and chasing it.
Everything below is a piece of the same system. Each pillar links to the feature page that goes deeper, but the point is that they are not separate products — they are one app your whole department works from, offline-first, on iPhone and iPad.
One board for the whole fleet
The Gantt scheduling board is the hero of the app. Aircraft are rows, trips are color-coded bars, and a live "now" line runs across the day. Build multi-leg trips, assign crew, and let conflict detection flag a double-booked tail before it becomes a problem.
- Aircraft rows with color-coded trip bars — the whole fleet at a glance
- Day, 3-day, week, and month views
- Multi-leg trips with conflict detection
- ICS calendar feeds so crew see their assignments in any calendar app
Which means: the scheduling whiteboard and the shared spreadsheet stop being the source of truth — everyone works from the same board, on any device.
Flight Scheduling
See the Gantt timeline and multi-leg trips
A logbook that fills itself in
When a scheduled flight closes out, the digital logbook captures the leg — Hobbs, tach, PIC, SIC, and approaches — so nobody re-types a flight that was already on the schedule. Currency is tracked from the entries you log, and the whole logbook exports to PDF and CSV for checkrides and audits.
- Auto-fills from completed trips — no double entry
- Template-driven entries with the fields you actually use
- Currency tracked from logged flight time, landings, and approaches
- PDF and CSV export, plus 47,000+ airports worldwide
Which means: the same flight is never entered twice, and the department has an audit-ready record without the end-of-month catch-up.
Digital Logbook
Auto-fill entries and export to PDF or CSV
Maintenance that tracks itself
Squawks get reported with photos and routed to the right person. Inspections — 100-hour, annual, ADs, and custom intervals — count down against date, hours, or landings, with FAA certificate data auto-populated from the registry. A due, overdue, and grounded dashboard shows aircraft status before you dispatch.
- Squawks with photos, tied to the aircraft and flight
- Inspection countdowns by date, hours, or landings
- Due, overdue, and grounded status at a glance
- Full maintenance history per tail number
Which means: you see what is grounded before you schedule it, instead of finding out on the ramp.
Maintenance Tracking
Squawks, inspection countdowns, and status
Every cost tied back to a trip
Snap a fuel or FBO receipt and Sky Duty extracts the merchant, amount, and date, then links it to the trip it belongs to. Multi-currency handles international legs, and expenses export to PDF with charts or CSV so the accounting hand-off is clean.
- Receipt scanning with automatic data extraction
- Expenses linked to the trip that generated them
- Multi-currency for international trips
- PDF and CSV export for accounting and reimbursement
Which means: the answer to "what did that trip actually cost" lives next to the trip, not in a shoebox of receipts.
Expense Tracking
Receipt scanning tied to every trip
The right role sees the right slice
A flight department is owners, dispatchers, line pilots, and mechanics — and they should not all see the same thing. Sky Duty ships built-in roles with a custom permission matrix, so a mechanic works the maintenance queue while a dispatcher runs the board, all against the same records.
- Built-in roles: Owner, Admin, Dispatcher, PIC, SIC, Instructor, Mechanic, and more
- Custom permission matrix, down to field level
- PIC and SIC assignment per leg
- Unlimited users at every aircraft tier
Which means: you can add the accountant, the owner, or a maintenance vendor without paying per seat or handing over the whole operation.
Fleet & Crew
Aircraft profiles, roles, and permissions
Built to keep working where you fly
Cell coverage at most GA fields is a coin flip, so Sky Duty is offline-first by design. Schedule a trip, log a flight, scan a receipt, or file a squawk with no signal — every change queues and syncs automatically when a connection returns. Add an aircraft in seconds from 300,000+ FAA registry records, and search 47,000+ airports worldwide from the same app.
It is one flight ops software system, not five integrations bolted together — which is why the schedule, the logbook, maintenance, and expenses stay in agreement instead of drifting apart.
One price, per aircraft, everything included
Sky Duty is $39 per month per aircraft, with a 14-day free trial and unlimited users. Every capability on this page — scheduling, logbook, maintenance, expenses, fleet, and crew — is included at that price. Pricing per aircraft matches how a flight department actually spends: the airframe drives the budget, not the number of people who log in to read the schedule.
Operating 10 or more aircraft? See the pricing page or email sales@skyduty.com for volume pricing. The trial starts in the app — there is no web signup.
See where the lines are
Sky Duty sits in a different category from the charts app you fly with or a career logbook. If you are weighing it against the tools your team already runs, these side-by-side pages lay out where Sky Duty fits and where another tool still wins — honestly, without pretending one app does everything.