Web Design & Development
Sites built from scratch for your business — fast, beautiful, and designed to turn visitors into booked students, charters, and tours.
Aviation Web Design & Development
Websitesthatfillseats
and grow revenue.
Built by a professional CFI who is also a professional software engineer. Two careers of deep domain knowledge, turning searches into students, charters, and booked seats.
A 5–10 minute recorded walkthrough of your site's conversion leaks, SEO gaps, and three fixes you can make this week. Yours whether we work together or not.
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Aviation businesses launched
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SEO articles ranking
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Response, every message
Selected Work
Projects that move the needle.
Flight schools, charter operators, and tour companies — each built to convert.
What Ships
Concrete deliverables, not vanity metrics.
Every project is live. Every integration is production. Every article is indexed. Here's a slice.
Your business deserves a website as impressive as the view.
What We Do
Everything your aviation business needs online.
Why Discovery Flight Media
Not another generic agency.
Aviation expertise
Flight line experience, not just screen time. Every site is built by a CFI who understands preflight briefings, booking integrations, and what actually drives student starts.
Fast enough that visitors stay
Your competitors’ sites load in 6 seconds. Yours loads in under 2. Built from scratch — no WordPress, no page builders, no plugin bloat. Google rewards it and your prospects don’t bounce.
Founder-led, end to end
Design, development, SEO, and lead capture — all done by the founder. No account managers, no design subcontractors, no lost-in-translation handoffs. When a project needs photo, video, or a brand refresh, we bring in named production partners — never anonymous outsourcing. The person you meet on day one is the person who writes every line.
About the Founder
Led by a pilot who codes.
Professional CFIProfessional Software EngineerDirect Access, No Handoffs
Discovery Flight Media is a founder-led studio run by Nathan Van Kempen — a professional CFI and a professional software engineer. Not a marketer who dabbles in code. Not a developer who once took a discovery flight. Two full careers, deep domain knowledge in both, building for aviation.
Most agencies spread the job across four roles and four markups. This is the opposite: one person who understands the preflight briefing, the Part 61 vs Part 141 choice, and the code that makes your site rank. Photo, video, and brand refresh come in through a small group of named production partners when a project calls for them — never anonymous subcontractors.
How We Work
From discovery call to launch day.
Discovery
Day 1–2
We learn your business, your market, and what actually drives your revenue.
Design
Week 1
We create a visual system and site architecture built for your specific audience.
Build
Weeks 1–3
Built from scratch — no templates, no page builders. Fast, clean, and tuned to rank before it ships.
Launch & Grow
Week 3+
We deploy, monitor, and iterate. SEO, lead capture, and analytics from day one.
Frequently Asked
Questions we hear from aviation businesses.
No. We work across the full aviation industry — flight schools, charter operators, helicopter and gyroplane tour companies, soaring clubs, nonprofits, FBOs, and MROs. If your business involves aviation, we understand it.
Our founder is a certified flight instructor. We understand discovery flights, student pipelines, Part 61 vs. 141 programs, the difference between public booking platforms (FareHarbor, Peek) and internal flight-school scheduling tools (FlightSchedulePro, Flight Circle), and the language your customers actually use when searching. A generic agency has to learn all of this from scratch.
Most website projects take 1–3 weeks from kickoff to launch, depending on scope. A focused single-page site can ship in a week. A 20+ page site with booking integrations and a blog engine runs closer to three.
Every project is scoped individually based on your needs. We discuss pricing on calls, not on the website — because a 5-page site for a tour operator and a 23-page platform for a flight school are very different projects.
Results depend on scope, but here is what our projects have shipped: 20 blog posts ranking in Google for a tour operator, FareHarbor booking replacing manual scheduling, clean FlightSchedulePro portal routing for a 23-page flight school rebuild, Stripe donation processing for a nonprofit from day one, and FAQ content earning featured answer-box spots across multiple sites. Every site launches fast, built to rank, with lead capture running from day one.
SEO is baked into the site from the foundation, not bolted on later. That means long-form content targeting the real searches your customers run, Google Business Profile setup for local map results, airport-specific landing pages, and behind-the-scenes tagging so Google understands exactly what you are and can feature you in answer boxes and rich listings. For one client we published 11 SEO articles around high-intent tour queries. For another, we built a 20-post blog pipeline targeting discovery-flight and seasonal searches.
Free Website Review
Not ready for a call? No problem.
Send us your URL and we'll record a personalized video walkthrough of your site — covering what's working, what's not, and what to fix first.
- Page speed and mobile performance analysis
- SEO gaps costing you organic traffic
- Conversion bottlenecks losing you leads
No sales pitch. No strings attached. You'll hear back within 24 hours.
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