The Web site is updated every day. TAP claims that 90 percent of all of the world's available aircraft are found within its pages and on its Web site. The pages and the site list on average 5,000 aircraft at a time. According to CEO Cosby Stone, grandson of the founder, the volume peaks at about 6,000 aircraft each summer at about the time of EAA's AirVenture. The slowest season is winter, when about 4,000 aircraft are available.
Stone notes that buyers today are ever more Internet-savvy.
Some 6,000 individuals visit the TAP site each day. Meanwhile, over at ASO , the site also serves about 6,000 to 6,500 visitors a day, according to President Tony Friend. They drop in to view some of the 2,500 aircraft for sale at any given time. Unlike TAP, ASO does not charge buyers for access to its site. In both cases, sellers pay a listing fee.