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Built For · Aviation Lenders & Capital Partners

End the black box.
See every dollar at work.

Hilo gives aviation lenders, cadet financiers, and flight school investors live, continuous data on every funded student and every school in the portfolio — so capital is protected with real-time visibility, not quarterly phone calls.

Real-time
Progression data
FAA-aligned
Training milestones
Portfolio
Level visibility
The Problem

Capital goes in. Data doesn't come out.

Progress updates arrive by phone. Completion data arrives quarterly. Problems — a student falling behind, a school losing aircraft, an instructor shortage — surface weeks after they've affected the portfolio. By the time the data catches up, the risk has already materialized.

Lag
Reports, not signal

Progress updates land monthly or quarterly. Training progression happens daily. The data is always catching up.

Gaps
Reconstructed, not observed

Portfolio health is assembled from spreadsheets and phone calls — not from the system actually running the school.

Risk
Problems surface too late

A student falling behind or a school losing aircraft shows up weeks after the fact — long after the exposure has accumulated.

One platform, three kinds of capital

Student lenders. Cadet financiers. Flight school investors.

Whether you're financing individual pilot training, funding a cadet pipeline, or holding equity in the flight school itself, Hilo surfaces the data that matches your exposure — live, scoped to your access, and drawn directly from the operating system running the school.

01
Student lenders
Banks and specialty lenders financing individual pilot training — see per-student progress, endorsements, and projected completion.
02
Cadet financiers
Airline cadet programs, scholarships, and sponsors funding pipelines — see pipeline health, delay signals, and deployment readiness across every partner.
03
Flight school investors
Equity investors, family offices, and strategic partners funding schools directly — see revenue, utilization, throughput, and operational performance.
Scoped
Permissioned · Auditable · Direct
For capital partners

Your portfolio. On one dashboard.

The Hilo Lender Portal gives capital partners a direct, secure view into the data that matters — without the school having to build a report and without waiting on a phone call. Access is controlled. Permissions are scoped. Every view is auditable.

01
Per-student progression
Flight hours, dual instruction, solo time, endorsements, and checkride readiness tracked continuously against FAA requirements.
02
Early-warning signals
Delay and attrition risk surfaced weeks before default-adjacent events — not after.
03
School-level performance
Completion rates, pass rates, and operational metrics for every school in the portfolio.
04
Capital exposure
Real-time view of training value remaining, balances, and exposure across every funded account.
Lenders FAQ

Lender questions, answered.

Hilo gives aviation lenders live, continuous visibility into every funded student’s training progress — flight hours, endorsements, checkride readiness, and projected completion — so default risk can be assessed in real time instead of reconstructed from quarterly reports.

Yes. Hilo provides pipeline-level visibility across every training partner and every cadet, with early-warning signals for delay, attrition, and deployment readiness risk.

Yes. Flight school investors can see operational performance metrics across every school in the portfolio — completion rates, utilization, revenue, and operational throughput — through scoped access to the Hilo Lender Portal.

Lender access is permissioned and scoped. Each capital partner sees only the data relevant to their funded students or schools, with every view logged in an auditable access record.

No. Hilo surfaces the data automatically from the operating system already running the school. There is no manual reporting burden on the school or the lender.

See It Fly

Protect your capital.
With data, not phone calls.

Walk us through the portfolio — the schools you fund, the students you back, the reports you rebuild every quarter. We'll show you what live visibility into every dollar at work looks like.