MyFBO closes on 31 August 2026. Here's where flying clubs should actually go.

MyFBO has run scheduling and billing for general aviation for more than 25 years. It shuts down for good on 31 August 2026. If your club or partnership runs on it, you have weeks, not months.

Most of the advice being published right now is written for flight schools — Part 141 curricula, instructor management, student endorsements. If you're four people sharing a Cherokee, or a 30-member club with two aeroplanes, none of that is your problem.

This page is for you. It includes the cases where you shouldn't use us.

First: get your data out. Today.

When MyFBO switches off, everything inside it goes with it — member balances, rates, years of flight history, who owes what to whom. Nobody is going to keep a copy for you.

Free MyFBO data export tool → — upload your export, get clean spreadsheets back. No account, no card, nothing stored. Do this before you think about anything else, because it stops being possible on 1 September.

Then choose a replacement without panic. A rushed migration is how clubs end up somewhere worse than where they started.

Work out which half you actually need

MyFBO did two quite different jobs. Most clubs only ever felt pain in one.

The scheduling half — who has the aeroplane on Saturday, booking rules, conflicts, minimum bookings.

The money half — turning a Hobbs reading into a member's bill, tracking who's paid, monthly dues, the engine fund, and answering "how much is actually in the overhaul reserve?" without opening a spreadsheet.

Be honest about which one caused the arguments. That decides where you go.

If scheduling is your main problem

We have scheduling now — it went live this week, and there's more on it below. But ours is deliberately narrow, and for some clubs one of these is still the better answer:

Flight Circle — the most common answer among clubs. Around $10 per aircraft/month, scheduling-first, does basic Hobbs/tach billing and syncs to QuickBooks. Sensible default for a club that mostly needs a calendar.
Flight Schedule Pro — the heavyweight. More capable, more expensive, built with flight schools in mind. Overkill for four partners; the right call for a 60-member club with instructors.
AircraftClubs — cheap and cheerful, built specifically for clubs. Light on support, but clubs run happily on it for years.
Coflyt — maintenance and inspection tracking first, scheduling and payments alongside. Strong if airworthiness compliance is the thing that keeps you up at night.

Any of those will replace the calendar. If you need instructors, a syllabus, dispatch or maintenance blocks, pick one of them and move on — ours does none of that, on purpose.

If the money is your main problem

That's what we built. TachTab is the financial half of a shared aircraft, and deliberately nothing else.

Land, type in the Hobbs or tach, photograph the fuel receipt. Under a minute on a phone. Out comes an itemised invoice — wet or dry rate, fuel you bought credited back against it.
An engine reserve fund every partner can see: cash balance next to the TBO clock. This is the number that quietly poisons partnerships, and almost no tool shows it.
Monthly per-partner statements, emailed automatically.
Dues split to the exact cent — equally, or weighted by ownership share.
Card and ACH payments through Stripe. The money goes directly to your club's account. We never hold your funds.
Corrections that don't break the books. Wrong Hobbs entry? It issues a proper credit memo and a replacement invoice, so the audit trail stays clean. Nobody quietly edits a cell.

That last point is worth dwelling on. Here's a real App Store review of a competitor, written by an aircraft partnership:

once a flight/charge/payment posts it is not editable, you have to use weird workarounds to get the balance to display correctly

If you've ever had to un-pick a mis-typed meter reading three months later, you know exactly what that costs in trust.

Scheduling: your booking and your invoice are the same record

Scheduling is live. A shared calendar for each aeroplane, conflict detection so two partners can't take the same Saturday, and a minimum daily charge so a fortnight away costs more than the ninety minutes actually flown.

Then the part none of the others do.

You land. You open your own reservation, and the meter start is already sitting there from the last flight. You type the end reading and it bills — same invoice, same reserve accrual, same audit trail as any other flight. There is no second app to open and nothing to copy across, because the booking and the invoice were never two separate records.

Every other tool on this page makes you keep a calendar in one system and a ledger in another, then reconcile them by hand at month end. That reconciliation is the job we deleted.

What it deliberately doesn't do: instructors, syllabus, dispatch, maintenance blocks, recurring bookings. It's a calendar for a group that shares an aeroplane, not a flight-school scheduler. The list above is honest about who does those better.

It's also new — it shipped this week. If you find an edge we haven't, tell us. We'd rather hear it early.

Pricing

$29/month per aircraft, every partner included. 30-day trial, no card. Or $290/year per aircraft — two months free, which works out at $24.17/month.

Founding clubs migrating from MyFBO pay $19/month per aircraft, locked for 24 months. Two aeroplanes is $38, three is $57 — the discount is a percentage, so it scales with the fleet instead of shrinking as you add aircraft. It applies to the annual plan too.

Your import is self-serve and takes about two minutes. Upload your MyFBO export and the aircraft, rates and partners fill themselves in — no retyping, no waiting on us, and nothing from inside the file is kept.

What to do this week

Export your MyFBO data. Free tool here. It stops working on 1 September.
Decide which half hurt: the calendar or the money.
Pick a scheduler if you need one — the list above is honest, and none of those companies paid us.
If the money is the mess, start a trial — drop the same export in and your group sets itself up.

Questions about any of this, including which competitor to use? Email hello@tachtab.com. We'll give you a straight answer even when it isn't us.