Safe, Efficient, Compliant Operations

Know why your airport is passed over for funding.

AIR Snapshot is the “Kelly Blue Book” score for your airport — pinpoint where you come up short for funding to move from uncertainty to action.

Get Your Snapshot
See how it works >

  • Rooted in FAA policy

  • Benchmarks market performance across the NPIAS

  • Fixed fee and 7-day turnaround

  • Unlock millions in 3rd party investment

Fund the gap in your master plan without burdening your sponsor

Unlock long-term financial stability without one-sided deals

Grow your airport safely without losing tenants

See where your airport stands.

"We don’t have enough time money budget expertise to go after more funding."

Airports get passed over for funding year after year. Sponsors feel the airport is a burden, and nobody can clearly explain why projects aren’t getting funded or what to change before the next grant round.

Heavy funding competition

Fruitless consulting projects

Legacy handcuffs

Fears of losing tenants

One-sided deals

Appraisal bias

Yearly funds scramble

Calling around

Part 16 threats

Delayed master plans

Tirekickers

“We know the value of our airport and where the gaps are in safe, efficient, and compliant operations.”

SIMPLE process

Airport Investment Readiness

in 3 steps

Get Your Snapshot

  • Complete a 5-minute intake form and upload a couple core documents to receive your report in as little as seven days.

  • Capstone Aero analyzes your airport against FAA guidance and national market leaders across Four Pillars (+250,000 data dimensions) — measuring short-term and long-term self-sufficiency, funding eligibility, and market alignment.

  • In as little as seven days, receive your PDF report and a live readout that explains your Readiness Score, keys risks, and direction to attract more funding to your airport.

Built for airport directors & Sponsors

Be Prepared with…

  • Executive Dashboard: your airport’s value position in the NPIAS

  • Four Pillar Scorecards: reveal where your airport is ready or coming up short for investment

  • Complete Market Rate Ladder: start the conversation with your sponsor with where to begin moving rates

  • Next Steps: Where to focus limited resources before you spend a dollar on a bigger study or sign a deal

FAA-based insights for airport operators:

  • Speak confidently with stakeholders

  • Evaluate new opportunities

  • Inform negotiations

  • Accelerate investment

Get Your Snapshot

Why airports choose AIR Snapshot first

AIR Snapshot was built for airport directors to advocate their airport’s performance and challenges to boards, sponsors, and state/FAA program managers — to align airports with their true potential.

In one week, you’ll know:

  • If your current rates are leaving money on the runway or putting your grant funding at risk.

  • Whether your airport is truly “self-sufficient” under FAA policy — now and in the long run.

  • How your airport compares to similarly situated airports across the country on key financial KPIs.

Get Your Snapshot

Accelerate millions in funding for less than a task order and quicker than your coffee break.

Start your funding flywheel.

Provide your information below, and we’ll get the ball rolling.

Your AIR Snapshot will be delivered within 7 business days following receipt of payment.

Learn more

 Questions airport leaders ask us

  • No. AIR Snapshot is a one-week, high-level readiness audit. We use your existing data to baseline key KPIs, identify risks, and flag quick wins. If you need a full appraisal or detailed engineering, we’ll point to what should come next — but this won’t replace your engineer of record or appraiser.

  • No. AIR Snapshot is an internal planning tool for you and your sponsor. It’s built from FAA policy and market data, but it isn’t filed with FAA, and you decide what you share with ADO or your state program managers.

  • Your current ACIP, operating budget, and basic activity information. If something is missing, we’ll work with what you have and highlight where better data would sharpen the picture.

  • Most on-call engineers and planners focus on safety and geometry of capital projects. AIR Snapshot focuses on the money side — rate defensibility, revenue sufficiency, and investment readiness — and is designed to accelerate your existing team.

  • If the Snapshot shows serious misalignment or big opportunities, we can step into a deeper program to build out a full rate strategy and adoption-ready schedules. Or you can take the report back to your existing consultants and use it as a roadmap — you’re not locked into a longer engagement.

Still not convinced?

Available to airport directors and sponsors, request a no-obligation sample of our Snapshot report to see if it’s a right fit for your airport.

Request your sample