How verification works — and what it does not mean
Every material fact on an Aircraft Passport carries an evidence grade. That grade tells you exactly how much weight the claim can bear. Nothing is presented as checked when it is not.
The five evidence grades
Platform verified
A PlaneSell reviewer confirmed this against supporting evidence. This confirms the evidence exists and is consistent — it is not a statement about airworthiness, condition or value.
Registry matched
Matched against a national aircraft register ingest (ILT, CAA G-INFO, LBA or FAA).
Document supported
The seller attached a document they assert supports this figure. PlaneSell has not reviewed it.
Seller supplied
Entered by the seller and not independently checked. Treat as a claim, not a fact.
Not established
Not provided. Absence of information is information — ask the seller.
Where registry matches come from
There is no pan-European aircraft register and EASA does not maintain a consolidated one. We ingest national sources separately and normalise them: the Dutch ILT register, the UK CAA G-INFO database, the German LBA register, and the FAA releasable aircraft database for N-registered aircraft based in Europe. Coverage expands country by country. Where we have not ingested a register yet, identity fields stay marked as seller supplied — we do not guess.
Seller verification levels
Email verified
Email address confirmed. Nothing more.
Identity verified
Government-issued identity document checked against the account holder.
Aircraft verified
Identity checked, and the seller's right to sell the specific airframe evidenced.
Documentation verified
Identity and aircraft checked, and key documents reviewed for existence and internal consistency.
Premium verified
All of the above, maintained on an ongoing basis for a dealer's whole inventory.
On AI-assisted listings
We use AI to help sellers turn structured data into readable descriptions, and to pull figures out of scanned records. Anything produced that way lands as a draft the seller must confirm, and it stays marked seller supplied until real evidence backs it. A model-extracted engine hour figure on a €150,000 asset is a suggestion, never a fact.