Why Wingmint exists.

I fly out of Kenosha Regional Airport (KENW) in Wisconsin, where I'm a member of a 200-member, self-managed club operating four Cessna 172s. We handle everything ourselves: scheduling, billing, maintenance coordination, member onboarding.

The software our club uses is bad. The market leader looks and feels like an enterprise app from 2010, pilots print and mail paper applications, treasurers chase checks, and members carry around a paper binder to log Hobbs time. None of it works the way you'd expect software to work in 2026.

Wingmint is what I think this category should look like. It's built for clubs like ours: small, self-governed, run by volunteers who already have day jobs. Every screen is designed for a phone held in one hand at the airport. Everything takes fewer taps.

The name.

To mint your wings in a club, you move from interested pilot to member who can take a specific plane: application approved, citizenship or FTSP status verified, checkout signed off, dues current, medical and flight review current, booking made, key picked up, Hobbs logged. Wingmint doesn't make anyone a pilot. It keeps the club's side of that path clear, so the board knows who can fly which plane and the member knows what is left before they can go.

What we compete on.

There are a handful of incumbents in this space: Flight Schedule Pro, FlightCircle, and Schedule Master. They have a decade-plus head start on edge cases, and we're not going to win by matching feature counts. We win on four things: transparent cost-plus pricing, booking and billing that work cleanly on a phone, TSA FTSP compliance enforced at booking time, and an open REST API on every plan. Your club's data belongs to your club. Pull it into ForeFlight, MyFlightbook, or LogTen Pro on day one.

Pricing: $9 per aircraft, per month.

That's our actual infrastructure cost per aircraft plus a small margin. ACH member billing runs at 0.92% capped at $5.75 per transaction, the lowest rate in the category. No tiered plans, no per-seat upcharges, no premium features sold separately. If our costs go down, your bill goes down. See the math.

Built in America.

Wingmint is built, hosted, and managed in the United States by American pilots. We serve US flying clubs operating under FAA rules, and we treat that scope as a feature, not a limitation. TSA Flight Training Security Program (49 CFR 1552) compliance is baked into the product because every US training provider has to handle it. A non-citizen member with an unapproved FTSP status literally cannot complete a booking for flight instruction, the rule is enforced in the scheduler, not in a paper binder.

Who builds this.

Wingmint is a product of Fifth Nine, LLC, an Illinois company I formed to ship this software. I write the code, I answer the support emails, and I fly out of the same club you're probably hearing about it from. There is no sales team, no account executive, no tiered support queue. If something is broken, I'm the one who fixes it.

If your club is still on paper, or stuck on software that fights you, let's talk.

Matt Voska