Sporty's has launched a new online service to help aircraft owners manage the details of their airplane. Sporty’s Plane Manager, powered by ShareZen, is a web-based system that tracks scheduling, maintenance, expenses, and usage of General Aviation aircraft.

“We’re proud to offer this powerful program to aircraft owners for free, as a way to make owning an airplane even more fun,” says Sporty’s vice president John Zimmerman. “This is a complete system, not a trial version or a demo.”

Sporty’s Plane Manager is free for single-owner airplanes and can be upgraded to work equally well for multi-owner airplanes. In fact, Sporty’s Plane Manager makes tracking expenses and responsibilities far easier for co-owners than it would be otherwise. With Sporty’s Plane Manager, all owners of an airplane can be kept informed of every detail of the airplane’s operation.

“Our goal at ShareZen is to make handling the administrative duties of aircraft ownership easier so that the aircraft owner’s time is freed up to concentrate on their real passion – flying,” says Drew Bernard, co-founder of ShareZen. “We developed ShareZen from our own experiences of owning and sharing an airplane, a boat, and two vacation homes. Tapping into the wisdom of Sporty’s has allowed us to make managing an aircraft easier and more enjoyable than ever.”

Among the tasks Sporty’s Plane Manager takes on are online scheduling (including with passengers, CFIs, and A&Ps), managing a to-do list, tracking maintenance events, setting automatic reminders for oil changes or ELT checks, building a long-term logbook with detailed journal entries and photos, and keeping track of all the contacts and documentation that come with aircraft ownership.

“Over the years, we have evaluated dozens of computer-based systems for aircraft management, and this product is the most useful, pilot-friendly one we've seen,” added Zimmerman.

Sporty’s Plane Manager is completely web-based, so pilots can access their important information anywhere an internet connection is available; there’s no software to install. It's also optimized for mobile devices, so the program works equally well with iPad, iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry devices.

Sporty’s Plane Manager may be accessed free of charge at sportys.com/PlaneManager. Additional users and storage can be added, if desired, at a low monthly cost.