Everything You Want To Know About Avport

What is the AVPORT market place?

Avport serves the selling and buying needs of all major segments of the general aviation industry: parts, supplies and products; later, all services including financing will be offered. All buyers and all sellers in general aviation can transact their business on the Avport hub.

How does buying and selling work on AVPORT?

BUYERS can search for particular suppliers, products, part numbers and quantities, specify shipping dates and transmit queries to suppliers. Buyers can also:

• shop a catalog
• request quotations, proposals, or information
• participate in sellers' auctions

SUPPLIERS can query their inventory, and if inventory is available suppliers can respond to buyers with price and delivery conditions. Suppliers can:

• offer catalog sales
• respond to RFQs, RFIs, RFPs
• auction excess inventory

What does "content & community" mean?

Content: Avport offers targeted and compelling content such as:

• late breaking aviation news
• complete weather features targeting pilots but interesting to the general population
• FAA data made available through a special search engine
• National Transportation Safety Board accident reports
• a universal database of aircraft specifications
• real-time air traffic control audio
• flight planning service

Community: Commerce and content are augmented by community features. Avport will use the Internet's ability to host self generating general aviation online forums. Community helps provide the "flypaper", the glue that keeps visitors, you present and potential customers, attached to and coming back to Avport:

	Training & Proficiency	Experiment Aircraft & Ballooning
	Aviation Software Topics
	Military Aviation Aircraft Owner Issues	Corporate Flying Home-built Aircraft
	Helicopter Flying Techniques Space Flight	Commercial Aviation Aircraft Model Building
	General "Hangar" for live daily discussions Air Traffic Control	Simulation Maintenance
	Weather Forecasting

Why e-commerce for general aviation?

A general aviation neutral vertical hub (not dominated by sellers or buyers) will reduce costs up and down the supply chain. General aviation is a market place with many sellers and many buyers now operating in a highly fragmented, high cost mode. Competitive forces from all sides - OEM, buyer, global - are putting profit pressures on general aviation manufacturers that an e-commerce hub can help relieve.

Who will use Avport?

BUYERS such as manufacturers, fleet-owning corporations, private pilots, as well as maintenance and overhaul facilities will use the e-marketplace to grow their base of suppliers, and streamline their information needs.

SUPPLIERS such as aircraft manufacturers, systems and components manufacturers, overhaul facilities and repair shops will use the Avport to expand their market reach, improve inventory control, grow their customer base and reduce their transaction costs.

What specific services will Avport provide?

Avport will be offering a range of value-added services. Our network will provide users with the following services:

• Order consolidation from multiple sources, including a catalog-based exchange
• Community features
• Surplus inventory management
• Full integration of all services with your existing back-office systems — ERP, accounting, finances and databases
• Comparison shopping
• Reaching global customers
• Linking existing ERP/backoffice/database systems

When will the Avport be open for business?

We will implement the network in phases beginning in the second half of 2001.

How will it work?

Avport will work with all popular Internet browsers such as Netscape and Internet Explorer. Users will need a personal computer and Internet access but will not be required to use a special system or any special software or hardware.

How will you generate revenue?

We will generate revenue primarily from transaction commissions as well as from user (but not subscription) fees, Web site building and hosting, as well as from advertising.