About honest.aero

honest.aero is operated by Airplane Parts Direct LLC.

Every other aircraft-parts database gates its market data behind a subscription aimed at sellers — thousands of dollars a year to see what anyone else paid for a part. We think the buyer googling a part number at 11pm before a procurement meeting deserves a straight answer, for free. So we publish it: real low/median/high price ranges by condition, built from the actual vendor quotes our own sourcing desk collects — never a single vendor’s number, never a list price dressed up as a market rate.

If the numbers we publish tell you a part is worth sourcing elsewhere, that’s fine — that’s the point. If you’d rather not chase it yourself, request a quote and our desk will work the current market against your requirement.

Austin Stout and Miranda Stout standing in front of the MRO Asia-Pacific 2026 backdrop at the trade show — Austin Stout and Miranda Stout, Director of Sales, at MRO Asia-Pacific 2026.

Who’s behind this

Austin Stout operates Airplane Parts Direct LLC, an aircraft parts brokerage. He came to aviation from technology a year ago and has spent it building demand for parts in an underserved market: the desk has since sourced 1,911 buyer RFQs. The price ranges, lead times and demand data on honest.aero come directly from that desk’s own sourcing activity: RFQs received, quotes requested from suppliers, parts sourced.

How a page gets published

Nothing here is generated and posted. The evidence behind a part page is assembled programmatically — quotes matched to the exact part number, grouped by condition, filtered by the rules on our methodology page — and the prose is drafted against that evidence and nothing else. Every factual sentence is then checked against the evidence it cites, and any figure that does not appear in the underlying data fails the check.

A page stays a draft, unlisted and not indexed, until it is approved, and the page says which way. Either Austin Stout reads it and signs it off, or it is released in a batch that has passed the automated checks and a recorded sample review, which our methodology describes, including who read the sample. An approval covers the page exactly as it was: if its figures or wording change, it comes down until it is approved again.

Think something is wrong? Tell us — corrections are the most useful message we get.

Curious exactly how a price range gets calculated, and when we won’t publish one? See our methodology.

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