Your Compliance. No latency. No struggle.
Delta Bravo Aviation completes FAA Part 135 SAS Element-Design Data Collection Tools with traceable, inspector-ready citations to your operator manual suite — and builds new Part 135 and Part 145 certificates from a blank page as your growth and financial-structuring planning partner, so the certificate and the business arrive together, ready.
Element-Design Data Collection Tools answered with chapter-and-verse citations to your manual suite. We apply your OpSpecs, fleet, peer group and operations type — so every answer is scoped to your certificate — and every package passes a blind inspector-style counsel review.
The regulation-by-regulation traceback that demonstrates compliance end-to-end — now a front-loaded requirement for every Part 135 applicant under N 8900.766, and the right instrument when an inspector wants the whole picture.
When a DCT or SOC engagement surfaces gaps in your manual suite, one consolidated report of recommended amendments — drafted ready to insert into your manuals. Incorporate the edits, get a complimentary DCT re-run.
A new air carrier certificate built from a blank page around your business plan — peer group, OpSpecs, every manual, the compliance statement, the DCTs, the FAA filing — with Delta Bravo planning your capital, hires and aircraft timing against the FAA's gates. Fixed fees from $45,000.
A new repair station taken from a blank page to an Air Agency Certificate — Station Definition, RSM and QCM, training, forms, the FAA's 950+ question bank answered, remote mock inspection — with the shop's carrying cost planned alongside its manuals. $75,000–$120,000; small-shop tier $62,500.
For certificates you already hold: readiness audits, OpSpec scope reviews and amendment projects, conformity and configuration alignment — scoped individually.
Most certification help is transactional. A Builder is a partnership: Delta Bravo Aviation plans the business's growth and financial structure alongside its manuals, times the spending to the FAA's schedule, keeps the applied-for certificate in a continuous state of compliance and readiness, and is paid 40% only as the FAA accepts, starts and issues.
Define the operator and the 12/24/36-month plan → stage capital and hires to the FAA's gates → build every manual, the compliance statement, OpSpecs and registrations from one ground-truth register → complete the applicant DCTs (included) and audit like an inspector → file through AIS Services and keep it ready in the queue → carry it through the FAA project to the certificate → stay on as first-year compliance partner.
Define the station and its carrying cost → time the lease and hires to the FAA's schedule → write the RSM, QCM, training program, forms and capability list from a blank page → complete the FAA's 950+ question DCT bank (included) and audit → file, get in line, stay current → remote mock inspection, FAA inspection preparation, certificate and OpSpecs → first-year compliance partner for the new-entrant oversight period.
Tell us about your certificate, fleet, OpSpecs, and the DCT or scope of work in front of you — or, for a Builder, the business you intend to run.
Sign a mutual non-disclosure agreement online via DocuSign before any manuals or business plans change hands.
Upload your manual suite to your private, encrypted client folder — accessible only to you and Delta Bravo. Each client's documents are processed in isolation; nothing bleeds between operators.
Receive your completed, branded compliance package — answers, citations, rationales, and any flagged gaps — after a blind inspector-style counsel review. Should you choose, Delta Bravo Aviation drafts the amendments that close those gaps.
Founded and led by a USAF veteran whose résumé includes Chief Pilot, Director of Safety, and Director of Operations across multiple Part 135 operators, plus full build-outs of multiple Part 135 certificates. Documentation discipline from someone who has filled the seats you're hiring him to support — and who still serves as a sitting Director of Operations.
Certified by the U.S. Small Business Administration as a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business. Eligible for federal contracting set-asides — and a signal of what matters most for commercial work: a small, accountable operation with one owner answering for every deliverable.
Every DCT answer, SOC paragraph, and manual amendment links back to a specific paragraph in your manual suite or the underlying regulation, drawn from a regulatory library — full 14 CFR, every current Advisory Circular, all 20 volumes of Order 8900.1, current Notices and the complete DCT bank — refreshed weekly. Inspectors can verify in seconds, and that is what shortens certification timelines.
Plain-English guides to the FAA's SAS framework, certification process and the documents that carry you through it — written from the regulations and kept current as FAA policy changes.
Yes — and this is what that means: what a complete 2026 application contains and costs, how the FAA's readiness tiers and AIS Services changed the sequence, and why the certificate should be derived from the business plan — not the other way around.
The ten-step roadmap from Station Definition to Air Agency Certificate: what is due up front, the FAA's clocks, what fails a manual, and how to plan the shop's spending against the FAA's schedule.
The phases, the realistic timelines, and what changed in 2026: the readiness checklist, the Applicant List, the 15-day clocks and the move to AIS Services.
The two assessments, who completes which, peer groups 135B–E, DCT revisions, and what a defensible answer looks like.
How the two instruments differ, when each is required — and why the compliance statement is now a front-loaded requirement for every applicant.
What the inspector is evaluating, what to stage, the five reasons answers get sent back, and why DCT revision currency now matters.
The lettered parts (including the new P-series), the paragraphs that anchor everything, amendment lead times, and why OpSpecs decide every DCT answer.
The FAA charges no fee for the certificate. Delta Bravo Aviation's fixed-fee Part 135 Certificate Builder is $45,000–$65,000 for Single-Pilot or Single PIC, $85,000–$140,000 for Nine-or-Less and $150,000–$240,000 for Ten-or-More, with every applicant DCT included.
Plan on 12 to 24 months of capital. The applicant-controlled build to a filed readiness package typically takes 12 to 24 weeks; the FAA then runs a 30-day acceptance decision, an Applicant List wait of no fixed length and 15-day response windows.
A Data Collection Tool (DCT) is a question set in the FAA's Safety Assurance System that inspectors use to assess a Part 135 operator. Element-Design (ED/DA) DCTs test whether the manuals contain compliant procedures; Element-Performance (EP/PA) DCTs test whether the operation follows them.
Stage the current manual suite, your OpSpecs, a question-to-paragraph cross-reference and the current revision of each DCT in scope. Answering an older DCT revision shifts question numbers and makes compliant answers look incomplete.
Delta Bravo Aviation charges $20 per DCT question, the same rate for every question, paid on delivery. A Statement of Compliance package is $2,500, or $1,500 when bundled with a DCT engagement.
The FAA charges no certification fee. Delta Bravo Aviation's Part 145 Repair Station Builder is a fixed $75,000–$120,000 by scope, typically $89,500 for the core remote engagement, with a $62,500 small-shop tier for a single limited rating.
Since September 30, 2026, initial Part 135 applications are filed through the FAA's Aviation Integrated Safety (AIS) Services portal, formerly the AVS Hub. The readiness package itself follows FAA Notice N 8900.766.
Operators authorized to conduct Part 135 operations before May 28, 2024 must implement an SMS that meets 14 CFR Part 5 and submit a declaration of compliance by May 28, 2027 (14 CFR § 5.9(a)). Delta Bravo Aviation does not build SMS programs; it refers operators to vetted SMS providers.
More detail in the primers and on the pricing page. Every fee above is published there.
Start the intake for a DCT. Start a conversation for a Builder. Either way: sign the mutual NDA online, share what you have, and we'll handle the rest.
