Selling an aircraft starts with a question every owner asks: where should the advert go? The sites differ more than their home pages suggest. Some are free, some charge once, some charge by the month, and one charges a share of the asking price. Each reaches a different public.
This guide compares 24 sites from the seller's side: what a private owner pays to list, what the price includes, whether an account is needed and whether a commission is due on the sale. Every price was read on the site's own pages on 17 October 2026. PlaneNest is one of the sites compared, and we describe our offer the way we describe the others.
The market in three figures
Read on 17 October 2026.
13
of the 24 sites are free for a private seller
0
sites say they take a commission on the sale
4,558
aircraft for sale gathered on PlaneNest from 26 sites
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On PlaneNest your advert appears in one search with 4,558 aircraft from 26 sites, in English, French and German, in euros. Free, no commission, no subscription.
Which site for which aircraft
The specialist sites, by segment
Prices for a private seller, as each site publishes them.
Certified aeroplanes
aircraft24 charges a single EUR 24.95 for an advert that stays online until you remove it, with up to 20 photos. Aeromarkt is free in text only, or EUR 49.90 once with ten photos and its print edition. AvBuyer costs EUR 165 for three months, with eight photos and a panel in its GA Buyer Europe magazine.
Microlights in France and Belgium
ulmavendre.fr is free and takes no commission; its paid options cost EUR 12.20 to EUR 28 including tax. air-contact.com is free with three photos, and the advert has to be refreshed every two months. ULM Occasions charges 0.1% of the asking price, at least EUR 15, for twelve months, according to its 2023 form. pa-ulm.com shows 850 active adverts but publishes no price for placing one.
Microlights in Germany
ul-flugzeugmarkt.de is free, with no time limit and up to ten photos, and shows 423 active adverts. flugzeugmarkt.de is free for private sellers and covers powered aircraft, motor gliders, microlights and gliders. Both ask for a free account.
Gliders
segelflug.de is free for private owners and clubs, with ten photos and a check of one to two days before publication; a premium advert costs EUR 40 for 30 days. planeur.net charges EUR 20 for eighteen months with four photos.
Helicopters and turbines
AvBuyer, with 2 million page views a month by its own count, charges EUR 160 for a helicopter over three months. trade.aero lists up to three aircraft free for 30 days, and its EUR 49 premium advert is free until December 2026. We could not read Controller or PlaneCheck with our tools: check their prices on their sites.
In the United Kingdom
AFORS charges one credit per advert, GBP 10 for the first, and carries shares as well as whole aircraft. Registering requires residence in the United Kingdom and a postcard sent to your address, so a seller on the continent cannot place an advert there directly.
The newer sites and the general ones
Free to start, with different ways of earning afterwards.
Winglist
Free, and the only site that writes that no fee is due whether or not the sale happens through it. A featured listing costs EUR 9 for a week or EUR 29 for a month. 687 of its 901 adverts are in Europe.
PlaneFox
Free for private owners, with a paid promotion whose price it does not publish. Some adverts are shown only to signed-in visitors, and buyers can pay from EUR 1.99 a month to see hidden prices and new aircraft first.
Aircraft2Sell
Free for one aircraft, with five photos for 60 days; EUR 29 or EUR 79 a month for several adverts. No commission, and no VAT charged.
aviastock.com
Free with six photos and a video, with options from EUR 5 to EUR 49.95. The site says it is free for now. 120 aircraft adverts online.
Aviation et Pilote
EUR 25 a month without a photo, EUR 40 with one, for three months at most, or free for subscribers to the magazine. The advert also runs in the printed magazine.
leboncoin and Facebook
leboncoin is free for private sellers outside vehicles and property, with a few free photos and paid boosts; we could not read the category aircraft are filed in. Facebook publishes no terms our tools could read: check them in the app first.
Two smaller French sites: Occasion'Air is free and being rebuilt, and aerocoin keeps an advert six months but publishes no price.
A third, qfu.free.fr, still appears in searches but has had no new advert since 2016.
Commission, and selling through a broker
None of the sites we read says it takes a commission on the sale. You pay to list, or nothing, and the buyer contacts you. A broker works differently. In the United Kingdom, CK Aviation publishes 3.95% plus VAT below USD 1 million CK Aviation, and Exclusive Aircraft Sales says it is paid only if the aircraft sells Exclusive Aircraft Sales. Secondary sources give 2 to 5%, and 3 to 6% in business aviation. No rate is regulated: the mandate decides.
Before signing a mandate, read four points: whether it is exclusive and for how long, whether the percentage is before or after VAT, who pays it, and when it falls due. A Paris aviation lawyer lists the same points Kohen Avocats.
What the sites do not always say
How long the advert stays online. aircraft24 keeps it until you remove it, planeur.net eighteen months, aerocoin six months, air-contact two months unless you refresh it. ulmavendre and pa-ulm do not write it down.
Whether free will last. aviastock says it is free for now, and trade.aero offers its premium adverts until December 2026.
Whether VAT is included. Segelflug.de and ulmavendre quote prices including tax; aircraft24's terms say its fees are net; planeur.net and Aviation et Pilote do not say.
How many people will see it. Audience figures, ours included, are published by each site about itself, often undated, and nobody audits them.
Why place your advert on PlaneNest
PlaneNest is built to be the marketplace where owners place their adverts. It already brings the European market into one search: 4,558 aircraft from 26 sites on 17 October 2026, in English, French and German, in euros. A buyer looking for your type finds your aircraft next to every comparable one.
Placing it costs nothing: no fee, no commission, no subscription, up to twelve photos, online for 60 days and kept there with one click. If the aircraft is already advertised on one of the sites we read, paste the link and the form fills itself in.
Buyers write to you through PlaneNest, and your advert shows where its asking price stands against comparable aircraft, so a serious buyer sees at once that the price is fair.
Listed on another site as well? Nothing is shown twice: the copies we find elsewhere are filed under your PlaneNest advert, which stays the one buyers see.
Three habits that sell faster
List where buyers of your type look: one specialist site for your segment and one broad site usually cover the market.
Keep the same price and the same text everywhere, so a buyer who finds two adverts sees one aircraft.
Check the price against comparable adverts first. Our estimate reads them for your model and year, and the price pages show them by model, for example the Robin DR400 or the Cessna 172.
Selling an aircraft?
See where it stands against the market, then place your advert on PlaneNest, free and without commission.
Sources: each site's own pages, read on 17 October 2026.
aircraft24, offer for private sellers and terms; Aeromarkt; AvBuyer, piston and helicopter; trade.aero.
ulmavendre; air-contact and rules; ULM Occasions; pa-ulm; planeur.net; Occasion'Air; aerocoin; Aviation et Pilote; leboncoin.
ul-flugzeugmarkt; flugzeugmarkt; segelflug.de, fees and FAQ; AFORS, credits and terms; Winglist; PlaneFox; Aircraft2Sell; aviastock.
CK Aviation; Exclusive Aircraft Sales; Kohen Avocats.
PlaneNest figures: aircraft for sale online on 17 October 2026, an aircraft found on several sites counted once. Prices change: check them on the site before you pay. This guide compares published offers; it is not advice on a particular sale.