Privacy policy

Donating an aircraft means handing over documents that identify you and your property. This page explains what happens to that information. It applies to this site and to the aircraft donation program operated by Giving Center, EIN 92-1162407.

What we collect

Only what the donation requires, and only what you give us.

• Contact details. Name, phone number, email address, and the city or airport where the aircraft sits.
• Aircraft details. N-number, serial number, make, model, times, condition, records status and photographs you send.
• Ownership documents. Registration, bill of sale, and where relevant estate or trust authority documents and lien payoff paperwork.
• Correspondence. What you tell us by phone, email or form, because the next person who picks up your file needs the history.
• Basic site data. Standard server and analytics information such as pages viewed and approximate location, which is not used to identify you.

We do not ask for your Social Security number, bank details or financial statements. If a caller ever asks you for those on our behalf, hang up and call us on the number above.

Why we hold it

• To assess whether we can accept the aircraft and tell you what is realistic.
• To order the title and lien search, and to pursue a lien release where one is needed.
• To arrange pickup, transport and any disassembly.
• To prepare and record the FAA transfer filing.
• To issue your written acknowledgment, Form 1098-C and the Form 8283 signature.
• To keep the records a tax-exempt organization is required to keep.

Who it is shared with

We do not sell, rent or trade donor information, and we do not pass it to marketing lists. It goes to the parties a donation cannot be completed without:

• The title company that runs the registry search, and the lender or its successor when a release is required.
• The FAA Civil Aviation Registry, on the transfer filing.
• Transport operators and ferry crews, for the collection itself.
• Your own appraiser and CPA, at your request — never on our initiative, because the appraisal has to stay independent of us.
• The IRS, on Form 1098-C and our own returns.
• Law enforcement or a court, where we are legally required to respond.

How long we keep it

Donation records are kept as long as the tax and charity rules require, which is measured in years rather than months because both you and we may need to substantiate the contribution long after the aircraft has gone. Inquiries that never became donations are kept only as long as they are useful, and you can ask us to delete yours.

Your choices

• Ask what we hold about you, and we will tell you.
• Ask us to correct anything that is wrong.
• Ask us to delete an inquiry that did not proceed. Completed donation records we have to keep.
• Ask us to stop contacting you, at any point, including mid-process.

Call (888) 228-7320 or use the contact form. There is no special process and no form to fill in.

Cookies and this site

This site uses cookies for basic functionality and for standard traffic analytics. You can block or delete them in your browser; the pages will still work, though a form may forget what you had typed. We do not use the site to build advertising profiles of visitors.

Changes and questions

If this policy changes materially we will say so on this page. Anything unclear, ask us on the phone — a person will answer.