Aircraft De-icing Costs

[AV8OR]

I am trying to compile some data on aircraft de-icing costs: Please post what your minimum and maximum costs have been to de-ice your aircraft this year, type of aircraft, whether it was wings and tail or total de-ice, airport de-ice took place, FBO used and if you remember, the amount of time it delayed your departure to get de-iced.

Thank you

 

[Gulfstream 200]

No way to pin down an average cost for us I'd say, but...last few seasons:

Quick wings and tail at home - about $700

Full deice after freezing fog at Basel (LFSB) - about $11,000

neither delayed departure.

We do our best to arrange departures around the need to de-ice. Our people know that and are very happy to change times, or even dates, of departure as we do mostly pleasure flying.

Sometimes moving schedule even a few hours can save thousands and lots of headaches.

We also repo out of places that leave you outside in the winter...for example: we wont sit outside in Ski town places, we will repo to front range.

 

[LJ45]

$150-$1200 for a Learjet. max delay 15 mins.

 

[Tgaug6300]

XLS+, $7500 out of St. Johns. 15mins delay

 

[timmay]

WOW I thought we got molested last month in ASE paying 5,600 for a Challenger 604.

 

[pushntin]

ASE the week after Christmas was $3000.00 for a full deice on a GII.

 

[Flyin Tony]

full deice on a Metro in TEB 8,000$

 

[AV8OR]

Thanks guys......keep em coming!

 

[RedGuy]

And I though when we got charged $1,200 in CVG for a deice in a Cessna 310 we got taken to the cleaners! Those are some hefty bills! That was the highest I've had the lowest was proably about $250 in Racine Wisconsin.

 

[bizjet800]

full deice on a Metro in TEB 8,000$
WOW I thought we got molested last month in ASE paying 5,600 for a Challenger 604.

ASE the week after Christmas was $3000.00 for a full deice on a GII.
Quick wings and tail at home - about $700
Full deice after freezing fog at Basel (LFSB) - about $11,000

Crashing a plane...very costly!

 

[FlyingPieceOfSt]

Lucky

The only snow/ice our department usually sees is in the sim.

Im surprised I havnt seen someone chime in and say they have a weed/bug sprayer with some deicer sitting in the back of the plane.

 

[Launchpad]

$1000 for Challenger in CID, Type 1 and 4 last week. Same thing in BWI cost about $6500.

 

[Jetdriver69]

Deice in Norway was going to be almost $9,000. Made the $2400 Euro a day heated hangar seem almost practical.

 

[Tgaug6300]

Yeah, it doesn't take long to add up when you pay by the liter.

 

[2000Easyguy]

No way to pin down an average cost for us I'd say, but...last few seasons:

Quick wings and tail at home - about $700

Full deice after freezing fog at Basel (LFSB) - about $11,000

neither delayed departure.

We do our best to arrange departures around the need to de-ice. Our people know that and are very happy to change times, or even dates, of departure as we do mostly pleasure flying.

Sometimes moving schedule even a few hours can save thousands and lots of headaches.

We also repo out of places that leave you outside in the winter...for example: we wont sit outside in Ski town places, we will repo to front range.

Sounds about right. Considering a burger and a coke will set you back 35-50 points. Only thing cheap in Swaziland is public transportation (trams and buses, not trains).

 

[Gulfstream 200]

Sounds about right. Considering a burger and a coke will set you back 35-50 points. Only thing cheap in Swaziland is public transportation (trams and buses, not trains).

Well....it was freezing fog overnight. Our Operations at the time wanted to save money on hangar space...

We had to spray it down just to open the door...so it was a tremendous amount of de-icing.

Yeah, sadly, nowhere in Europe (maybe Portugal?) is much a bargain anymore.

 

[BEfly]

The following are all Beechjet, Exel, and King Air

JAC - $3500 30min
TEB - $4800 45min
ASE - $3500 20min
RNO - $3000 20min
SAF - $1000 Type 1 only 15min
DRO - $500 Type 1 only 10min (frost only)
BFI - $600 " " 20min (frost)
SUN - $4400 30min
SLC - approx $4000 (Million Air) They Hangared the plane overnight but pulled it out at 8am and it snowed....a lot. I show up at 1300 and need DeIce. They tried to charge me for hangar too (ouch). The reciept was faxed to my company so I dont know exactly what it is.

 

[Deskdriver101]

$13k full Deice GIV KIAD

Almost fell out of my chair when I saw that bill!

 

[NCherches]

$1700 for a Learjet at APA... Haven't deiced in my Citation as it is never feasable for the type of flying we do now.

 

[flyboydk]

My buddy had a $23,000 deice bill out of Bedford last year on the BBJ.

 

[semperfido]

last week- $2900 to de ice G550 with about 45 gal of Type 1 and 55 Gal of Type 4.

 

[woog315]

full deice on a Metro in TEB 8,000$

haha someone was very angry about that one I bet, but whats a metro doing in TEB?

 

[Flyin Tony]

haha someone was very angry about that one I bet, but whats a metro doing in TEB?

Had a charter for airnet with a bunch of video games.

 

[AV8OR]

Thanks for all the great responses folks. Mr/MS Moderator, hopefully this next statement is not a violation of policy. If so just delete it.

The reason for the question I placed was that I work for a company that has developed an safe, inexpensive, aircraft specific, solution for preventing delays due to de-icing on frost and light snow days that complies with the FAA regs 100%. The reason for the initial posting was that I wanted to see how much money we could be saving our clients.

If anyone is interested in finding out more PM me. I'll leave it at that on here so as to hopefully not violate the forum rules.

Warm regards...

 

[Fly91]

Hangar space....$350 the night before departure. Did it 3 times in the last 2 weeks. Plus, you get to preflight in a heated hangar with a GPU.

Fluid was as much as $25.00 a gallon (EGE) and as little as $19.00 a gallon (HPN).

 

[Fly91]

Thanks for all the great responses folks. Mr/MS Moderator, hopefully this next statement is not a violation of policy. If so just delete it.

The reason for the question I placed was that I work for a company that has developed an safe, inexpensive, aircraft specific, solution for preventing delays due to de-icing on frost and light snow days that complies with the FAA regs 100%. The reason for the initial posting was that I wanted to see how much money we could be saving our clients.

If anyone is interested in finding out more PM me. I'll leave it at that on here so as to hopefully not violate the forum rules.

Warm regards...

My friend and I have a 100% perfect product that keeps all ice and frost from ever being able to form on the wings or horiz stab, regardless of how long it stays outside and how bad the weather. G5 would cost approximately $10,000 to purchase and a Lear 55 would cost approximately $3,000. 50% of those costs if you just want to protect the wings and then deice the tail only if needed.

But start-up costs will require about $250,000 for the manufacturing set-up fee's and some special "stuff". I have an investor considering it.

It will take about 20 minutes to set up on a G5 and about 10 minutes on a Lear 55...after the crew has parked the plane. Same time to prepare it for flight.

No STC required or FAA involvement of any kind.

We should have a prototype ready for next winter for a Lear 55 and Challenger 600. It can also keep anything from forming on the aircraft from the cabon door forward all the way to the nose.

Never having to deice wings or tails again should have some interest with aircraft owners.

 

[2dumb2drive]

My friend and I have a 100% perfect product that keeps all ice and frost from ever being able to form on the wings or horiz stab, regardless of how long it stays outside and how bad the weather. G5 would cost approximately $10,000 to purchase and a Lear 55 would cost approximately $3,000. 50% of those costs if you just want to protect the wings and then deice the tail only if needed.

But start-up costs will require about $250,000 for the manufacturing set-up fee's and some special "stuff". I have an investor considering it.

It will take about 20 minutes to set up on a G5 and about 10 minutes on a Lear 55...after the crew has parked the plane. Same time to prepare it for flight.

No STC required or FAA involvement of any kind.

We should have a prototype ready for next winter for a Lear 55 and Challenger 600. It can also keep anything from forming on the aircraft from the cabon door forward all the way to the nose.

Never having to deice wings or tails again should have some interest with aircraft owners.

You are so intelligent that you have become completely retarded.

 

[AV8OR]

You are so intelligent that you have become completely retarded.

2dumb,

You know this guy. Seemed like an odd response to what I thought was a legitimate post. Can you enlighten me? Seriously...i didn't understand.

 

[SansPlane]

Hey Fly91 - found a use for that extra MonaVie? But won't the acai berry stain the aircraft? Jut playin with ya. You were a good sport before.

 

[FlyingPieceOfSt]

I have noticed that 99% of the folks who have that Mona-Vie decal on the back of their car window are minorites. Strange.