Aircraft Management & Pilot Services

Your aircraft. Your dedicated pilot. Ownership without the hassle.

You bought your aircraft to save time and fly on your own terms — not to run a flight department. Jet Set Aero gives you a single, highly experienced professional to fly your light jet or turboprop and quietly manage everything behind it, so the only thing you have to think about is where you want to go.

Based in Portland, Oregon, serving the Pacific Northwest.

One dedicated pilot, not a committee

Most management companies hand your aircraft to a rotating roster of crews and a billing department you’ll never meet. Jet Set Aero is built around the opposite idea: one professional who knows you, knows your aircraft, and is personally accountable for both.

That means:

A single point of contact. You call one person. That person flies your aircraft, oversees its maintenance, and answers for it.
A pilot who knows your aircraft intimately — its history, its quirks, its squawks — instead of whoever was available that week.
Discretion and consistency. The same trusted face for you, your family, and your guests, every flight.
Personal attention a larger operation can’t match, because you’re not one tail number among dozens.

When you hand someone the keys to a multimillion-dollar aircraft — and the safety of the people aboard it — that relationship should be personal.

Meet your pilot: Jack Odinsen

Jack holds an Airline Transport Pilot certificate (the highest pilot certificate the FAA issues) for both airplanes and helicopters, with more than 9,000 hours of flight experience.

He is type rated in the aircraft Pacific Northwest owners actually fly:

Embraer Phenom 300 (Single Pilot)
Cessna Citation 500 series (Single Pilot Exemption)
Dassault Falcon 900 EASy

…with extensive turboprop experience as well (TBM, King Air, and similar single-owner turbines).

Jack is also a Certificated Flight Instructor for single- and multi-engine airplanes and helicopters, and — uncommon for a professional pilot — holds an Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) mechanic certificate. That maintenance background means your aircraft is overseen by someone who understands it mechanically, not just from the left seat. Few maintenance items get past a pilot who is also a mechanic.

All of Jack’s certificates can be independently verified on the FAA Airmen Registry.

What full management includes

Everything required to keep your aircraft safe, legal, and ready — handled for you:

Flight operations — scheduling, flight planning, and a professional pilot on call for your trips.
Maintenance oversight — every inspection and maintenance item tracked and managed, scheduled around yourcalendar to minimize downtime. No surprises.
Regulatory compliance — your aircraft kept fully airworthy and in compliance under Part 91, with all documentation current.
Insurance — working directly with your broker to secure coverage matched to your aircraft and mission.
Data & weather subscriptions — databases and in-cockpit weather kept current at all times, because they’re a safety item, not a convenience.
Hangar & care — a convenient, climate-controlled hangar, with the aircraft regularly washed and detailed.

You get a complete flight department. You just don’t have to build or run one.

Safety is the whole point

Pilot proficiency and disciplined maintenance are the foundation of safe ownership — there is no shortcut and no substitute. Jet Set Aero is built on recurrent training, conservative decision-making, and meticulous maintenance tracking. The goal is simple: every flight is one you, your family, and your guests can step aboard with complete confidence.

Buying first? Even better.

If you haven’t acquired your aircraft yet, Jet Set Aero can guide the entire purchase as your buyer’s agent — defining the right aircraft for your mission, negotiating the price, overseeing the pre-buy inspection, and handling closing and registration — and then step straight into flying and managing it for you.

One professional, from “should I buy this?” all the way to “wheels up.” It’s the most seamless path into ownership there is.

Based in Portland. Serving the Pacific Northwest.

Jet Set Aero is based in the Portland, Oregon area and serves owners throughout the region, including aircraft based at Hillsboro (KHIO), Aurora State (KUAO), and Portland International (KPDX).

Let’s talk

If you own — or are about to own — a light jet or turboprop in the Pacific Northwest and want a dedicated, deeply experienced professional to fly and manage it, let’s have a conversation.

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Aircraft Acquisitions

Expert representation on your side of the table — usually at no cost to you.

Buying an aircraft is one of the largest and most complex purchases you’ll ever make, and the seller already has a broker working for them. As your buyer’s agent, Jet Set Aero represents only your interests — finding the right aircraft, negotiating the price, and making sure there are no expensive surprises after closing. And in most transactions, the seller pays our commission, so you get a seasoned advocate on your side at little or no cost to you.

Based in Portland, Oregon, serving aircraft buyers throughout the Pacific Northwest.

1. Finding the right aircraft

The most expensive mistake in aviation is buying the wrong airplane. We start with a conversation about your real mission — where you fly, how often, with how many people — and your budget, then recommend the aircraft that actually fits. You won’t pay for seats, range, or performance you don’t need.

Some of this runs counter to instinct:

The fastest jet rarely means the shortest trip. A slower aircraft with greater range can beat a faster one that has to stop for fuel.
Under 300 miles, a helicopter is often quickest — point to point, no airport detour.
A smaller aircraft can save real time by getting into shorter runways closer to where you’re actually going.

We also look past the sticker price to the total cost of ownership. An older aircraft can be cheap to buy and expensive to keep. We generally steer clients toward moderately used aircraft from manufacturers with strong service-center networks — a ten-year-old aircraft nearly identical to a new one can cost 50% less to buy without a meaningful jump in operating costs. (There are exceptions for highly updated older airframes, and we’ll tell you when one is worth it.)

2. Buying it well

Market research & negotiation. We scour the market for the right aircraft, pull recent sale prices for comparable types, establish a fair number, and negotiate the purchase on your behalf. Your deposit is held in escrow until the deal closes.

Pre-buy inspection oversight. We arrange and oversee a pre-buy inspection of the airframe and engines at an authorized facility. This is where costly hidden problems surface — giving you leverage in negotiations, or a reason to walk away before it’s your problem.

Closing & registration. We conduct the closing and file all the paperwork with the FAA to register the aircraft in your name.

3. Making it ready to fly

A purchase isn’t finished at closing. We set up everything required to operate the aircraft safely, legally, and efficiently:

Maintenance & inspection programs. We enroll your aircraft in inspection and maintenance programs that keep it airworthy and compliant. On many airframes and engines, fixed-hourly programs are available that cover scheduled maintenance and overhauls — and can include benefits like loaner engines and faster turnaround.
Tax benefit enrollment. We connect you with an aviation tax firm that tracks your mission data and identifies the deductions available to you and your business.
Regulatory authorizations. We prepare and file the complex FAA paperwork most owners never want to touch — including the RVSM authorization that lets your aircraft fly in the efficient high-altitude airspace between FL290 and FL410, and a Minimum Equipment List (MEL) that keeps you legally flying even if a single piece of equipment goes inoperative, instead of being grounded by a failed radio.
Pilot training oversight. Pilot proficiency is the single most important safety factor in ownership. We oversee your crew’s training at approved simulator and flight courses and review their performance. And if you’d rather fly it yourself, we’ll guide you through every rating and endorsement you’ll need — and can provide the training directly.
Data & weather subscriptions. We identify and activate the database and in-cockpit weather subscriptions your aircraft and mission require, and keep them current.

From “should I buy this?” to “wheels up” — and beyond

Most of our acquisition clients want to use their aircraft, not run it. Once the purchase closes, Jet Set Aero can step straight into flying and managing it for you: a dedicated professional pilot, full maintenance and regulatory oversight, and a single point of contact for everything. One relationship, from the first conversation through every flight that follows.

Let’s find your aircraft

If you’re considering a purchase anywhere in the Pacific Northwest, the first conversation is free — and there’s a good chance the seller, not you, will pay for our help.

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Aircraft Acquisitions

Expert representation on your side of the table — usually at no cost to you.

Based in Portland, Oregon, serving aircraft buyers throughout the Pacific Northwest.

1. Finding the right aircraft

Some of this runs counter to instinct:

The fastest jet rarely means the shortest trip. A slower aircraft with greater range can beat a faster one that has to stop for fuel.
Under 300 miles, a helicopter is often quickest — point to point, no airport detour.
A smaller aircraft can save real time by getting into shorter runways closer to where you’re actually going.

2. Buying it well

Closing & registration. We conduct the closing and file all the paperwork with the FAA to register the aircraft in your name.

3. Making it ready to fly

A purchase isn’t finished at closing. We set up everything required to operate the aircraft safely, legally, and efficiently:

Maintenance & inspection programs. We enroll your aircraft in inspection and maintenance programs that keep it airworthy and compliant. On many airframes and engines, fixed-hourly programs are available that cover scheduled maintenance and overhauls — and can include benefits like loaner engines and faster turnaround.
Tax benefit enrollment. We connect you with an aviation tax firm that tracks your mission data and identifies the deductions available to you and your business.
Regulatory authorizations. We prepare and file the complex FAA paperwork most owners never want to touch — including the RVSM authorization that lets your aircraft fly in the efficient high-altitude airspace between FL290 and FL410, and a Minimum Equipment List (MEL) that keeps you legally flying even if a single piece of equipment goes inoperative, instead of being grounded by a failed radio.
Pilot training oversight. Pilot proficiency is the single most important safety factor in ownership. We oversee your crew’s training at approved simulator and flight courses and review their performance. And if you’d rather fly it yourself, we’ll guide you through every rating and endorsement you’ll need — and can provide the training directly.
Data & weather subscriptions. We identify and activate the database and in-cockpit weather subscriptions your aircraft and mission require, and keep them current.

From “should I buy this?” to “wheels up” — and beyond

Let’s find your aircraft

If you’re considering a purchase anywhere in the Pacific Northwest, the first conversation is free — and there’s a good chance the seller, not you, will pay for our help.

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Flight Training & Mentoring

Learn to fly your own aircraft — from your first lesson to your first jet.

This isn’t a flight school running students down an assembly line. It’s one-on-one instruction and real-world mentoring from an 9,000-hour professional, built entirely around your goals as an aircraft owner — making you safe, confident, and capable in the aircraft you actually want to fly.

Based in Portland, Oregon, serving the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Meet your instructor: Jack Odinsen

Jack holds an Airline Transport Pilot certificate — the FAA’s highest — for both airplanes and helicopters, with more than 8,000 hours of experience. He is a Certificated Flight Instructor for single- and multi-engine airplanes and for helicopters, qualified to teach instrument flying in both, and he is type rated in the Embraer Phenom 300 (Single Pilot), Cessna Citation 500 series (Single Pilot Exemption), and Dassault Falcon 900 EASy.

He also holds an Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) mechanic certificate — so you’re learning from someone who understands these aircraft mechanically, not just from the cockpit.

All of Jack’s certificates can be independently verified on the FAA Airmen Registry.

What Jack can teach you

Turboprop & jet mentoring — Jack’s specialty. Moving into a turboprop or light jet is the most demanding step in personal aviation, and it’s where experienced mentoring matters most. Jack is type rated in the Embraer Phenom 300 (Single Pilot), Cessna Citation 500 series (Single Pilot Exemption), and Falcon 900 EASy, with extensive turboprop time across the TBM and King Air fleets, and he guides owners through the full transition: the turbine, high-altitude, high-performance, complex, and TAA training and endorsements you’ll need, the type rating itself, and the real-world hours that earn an insurer’s confidence — all flown with a professional in the right seat from your very first flight in the aircraft.

The foundation behind it. Whether you’re starting from zero or filling gaps, Jack provides the full range of certificates and ratings — Private, Instrument, Commercial, and Multi-Engine — in both airplanes and helicopters.

And the rest of what flying can be. Tailwheel, mountain, and international operations, for owners who want to take their aircraft well beyond the everyday.

Four ways to fly

Initial training

Your first certificate is usually earned in a four-seat piston airplane, which is easy to rent. If you’d rather own your trainer from the start, we’ll point you toward the right aircraft so your training dollars build toward something you keep.

Turbine transition & mentoring

This is where ownership gets ambitious — and where most pilots need a guide.

If you buy a turboprop or jet certified for single-pilot operation, you can be in the cockpit from day one. But before you can act as pilot-in-command on your own, you’ll need a private certificate, multi-engine and instrument ratings, a type rating, and several endorsements — and your insurer will likely want 800+ hours before they’ll cover you to fly it solo.

That’s exactly what mentoring solves. Jack flies as pilot-in-command while you fly the aircraft, building the hours, the experience, and the insurability you need — safely, and from the very beginning. You’re not waiting on the sidelines to earn your own airplane. You’re flying it, with a professional beside you.

Helicopter training

Helicopter instruction is less common and usually clustered near larger cities, and few schools rent to pilots after they’re licensed — or do so under tight restrictions. Jack helps you find the most practical path given what’s actually available in your area.

Adventure flying

Tailwheel bush planes. Aerobatics. Mountain strips and busy high-density airports. International flights across borders and oceans, with a mentor in the right seat. If flying is the adventure, Jack can take you there. Your adventure awaits.

One professional, the whole journey

Training is rarely where it ends. Many of the pilots Jack mentors go on to have him help them buy the right aircraft, then fly and manage it for them — building hours behind a dedicated professional until they’re ready to take the controls themselves. From your first lesson to your own flight department, it can all be one relationship.

Start flying

If you want to learn to fly — or fly something faster than you do today — let’s talk about where you want to go and how to get you there safely.

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