PrivateJetSky / Verify your operator
The aircraft is real. Is the certificate?
Almost everything you need to check a charter operator is public, free, and takes about fifteen minutes. Almost nobody does it, because nobody consumer-facing has written down where to look and, more usefully, what each record actually proves. This is that page.
The gap this closes is specific. Charter is sold by brokers and flown by operators, and those are usually different companies. The marketing you read belongs to the first one. The certificate, the maintenance program, the crew training and the insurance belong to the second. Connecting the two is a buyer's job, and the records that let you do it were published by the regulator for exactly that purpose.
It matters because the failure mode is not theoretical. In June 2026 the FAA proposed a $336,000 civil penalty against a charter operator it alleged had run commercial flights as though they were private ones, which is the precise arrangement that leaves a passenger outside the safety regime and, often, outside the insurance.
The six checks
Work through them in order: each one needs the answer from the one before. Tick what you confirm and record what you were told, then print the result as a dated record. Everything you type stays in this browser.
Six patterns worth ruling out
None of these proves anything on its own. Each one is a reason to slow down and get an answer in writing.
What this page is not
It is not a directory, and that is deliberate. We publish no list of approved operators and no certificate status of our own, because a quarterly-refreshed website asserting who is certificated would eventually be wrong about a safety question. The public file itself demonstrates the risk: the FAA's own Part 135 list stopped updating in mid-2025, was withdrawn entirely in February 2026 over data-integrity errors, and returned in May 2026. A copy of that file taken at the wrong moment would have been confidently, dangerously stale.
So this page sends you to the primary record instead of standing between you and it. If a check comes back ambiguous, that is information: ask the seller to resolve it before money moves.
After you verify
Verification tells you who is flying. It says nothing about whether the price is right, which is a separate question with its own free answer: run the number through the Quote Audit. If you have not asked for quotes yet, the RFP Desk builds a brief that demands the operating carrier's name, the broker's capacity and the insurance position up front, so most of this page is answered before you ever have to chase it.