When an aircraft becomes disabled at your airport, PlaneSkate gets it moving again — in under 17 minutes, without jacks, without specialists, and without closing your airport.
It paid for itself the first time we used it... saving millions of dollars in expenses and lost revenue.
PlaneSkate ships in three configurations — the 15K for piston singles through light jets, the 70K for large piston single/twins, to light to medium corporate jets and the 100K for heavy corporate and commuter and regional jets.
One call and we match you to your fleet mix. We do not believe in upselling you a unit you do not need.
No specialist required. Any trained line or ground crew member can load a disabled aircraft in under 45 seconds.
We provide training documentation for your ops manual and a half-day on-site session if you want one.
When an incident happens, your crew deploys your PlaneSkate.
The aircraft moves. The runway reopens. In most cases, under 15 minutes from incident to clear.
The unit pays for itself the first time you use it.
For piston singles, turboprops, and light jets up to 15,000 lb gross weight. Cessna 172 through King Air, Pilatus PC-12, Citation Mustang, TBM 940.
The unit most regional and GA airports buy first.
For large piston twins, turboprops, and light-to-large corporate jets up to 70,000 lb gross weight. King Air 350, Pilatus PC-24, Phenom 300, Citation Latitude, Hawker 4000.
Built for county and regional airports serving corporate fleets.
For mid-size jets through heavy corporate and regional aircraft up to 100,000 lb gross weight. Citation CJ4, Phenom 300, Gulfstream G650, Falcon 7X, Global 6000, regional jets.
This unit serves over 30+ large airports and military air bases.
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No specialist required. Any trained ground crew member can load PlaneSkate in under 45 seconds. We provide training documentation for your ops manual and a half-day on-site session if you want one. No certifications, no recurring credentials. If your crew can change a tire, they can run a PlaneSkate.
Two sizes cover most of civilian and military aviation. The 15K handles aircraft up to 15,000 lb gross weight — Cessna 172 through King Air, Pilatus PC-12, Citation Mustang, TBM 940, light jets. The 100K handles up to 100,000 lb GW — Citation CJ4, Phenom 300, Gulfstream G650, Falcon 7X, Global 6000, regional jets. Beyond that range, we'll point you to a different solution.
Yes — designed for it. PlaneSkate's heavy-duty caster array distributes load and rolls on snow, ice, gravel, grass, and frost-heaved tarmac. Customers in Buffalo MN, Eau Claire, Duluth, and Brainerd Lakes have used it through full Minnesota winter operations. Contaminated and rugged surfaces are core use cases, not edge cases.
Traditional recovery means jacking the aircraft, removing the tire and brake assembly, sourcing a flatbed and a specialist, and waiting. Typical timeline: 2–4 hours of runway closure with tower managing diversions. PlaneSkate replaces the entire process with a 17-minute deploy. No jacks. No specialist callout. No emergency-rate billing. The unit lives on-site, ready before the incident.
Pricing is straightforward - the 15K model is $5,829 and the 100K model is $59,327 — if you are interested in ordering multiple skates call us for a quote tailored to your fleet mix and operations volume.
ROI: most customers report the unit pays for itself the first time it's used in place of an emergency-rate specialist callout. Joe Harris at MAC put a 100K unit into service in 2019; total emergency specialist callouts since install: zero.
Most airports buy PlaneSkate after their first major closure. The math works out either way — but the runway closure still happened. Get the demo before you need it.