PartsAndPlanes.com LLC
No ghost parts
Every parts marketplace has the same problem: a listing that looks live, an RFQ that goes out, and a seller who says the part sold last year. Brokers are famous for it, but honest sellers do it too, because updating an inventory sheet is nobody’s favorite job. PartsAndPlanes is built so it cannot quietly happen here. This page says exactly how.
Last reviewed: September 13, 2026
Every listing has a date
A listing’s freshness is the last time its seller touched it: an inventory upload, an edit, an API or feed sync, or a one-click confirmation that everything is still on the shelf. That date is on every search result, in the Confirmed column, colored green when it is under 30 days old and amber as it ages. You can see at a glance whether you are looking at last week’s inventory or last year’s.
Stale listings come off the shelf
A seller who has not confirmed a listing in 30 days gets a reminder. Another at 45. At 60 days the listing is paused: removed from search and from government matching until the seller confirms it is still there. A paused listing that stays unconfirmed for another 60 days is deleted.
Brokers, and any listing offered as available on request rather than in stock, run a shorter clock: a reminder at 14 days, another at 21, paused at 30. So nothing in search is older than 60 days, and nothing brokered is older than 30. The seller sees the same clock on their dashboard that we do.
Confirming takes one click
Sellers get a short weekly note with their numbers and a single link: everything is still current. One click confirms the whole inventory and resets the clock. Sellers who keep inventory in sync by API or a scheduled feed never see a reminder at all, because every sync is a confirmation.
We keep the burden that low on purpose. Ghost parts mostly come from neglect, not deceit, and a rule that is painful to comply with gets ignored.
Ghosts get caught in the act
When a buyer sends an RFQ and the seller answers that the part is no longer available, two things happen that minute: the buyer is told, and the listing is paused. The seller cannot leave it up to catch the next RFQ. We record every one of these, and an account that does it repeatedly is a pattern we act on.
What this does not do
It does not verify that a part physically exists. No marketplace can, short of inspecting it. What it guarantees is that a human being, or their system, vouched for the listing within the last 60 days, that they were reminded twice before it went dark, and that anyone who tells a buyer a part is gone loses the listing on the spot. Confirmation dates come from the platform’s own records; nothing on this page is estimated.
The short version
Every listing is dated. Nothing in search is older than 60 days; nothing brokered is older than 30. Saying a part is gone takes it down. Confirming takes one click; syncing takes none.