Halyard is two things and says so on every quote. We OPERATE two aircraft of our own under our own Part 135 certificate — a Phenom 300E and a Citation XLS Gen2, both based at John Wayne — and we BROKER everything else across the ARGUS- and Wyvern-rated fleet. The line on the quote tells you which one you're getting, and the tail number comes with it.
Know moreThe genre sells "from $2,500 an hour" and a leather chair. The hour is real; what it leaves out is the two-hour daily minimum, the 7.5% federal excise tax, the $5.30-a-head segment fee, the landing and handling at both ends, and the crew's hotel if you keep them overnight. Our quote prints every one of those lines before you give us a name.
N588HJ · Citation XLS Gen2 · operatedA light jet is a 4′11″ cabin; a midsize stands up at 5′8″; a super-midsize like the Challenger 3500 gives you 6′1″ and a flat floor. The brochures show the seat. We print the height, the baggage hold and the range, because for two hours to Cabo the difference between 4′11″ and 5′8″ is the difference between a chair and a room.
Need guaranteed availability and a fixed price? 25 hours on our Phenom 300E at $6,200 an hour, fixed for two years, fuel included — $155,000 plus the 7.5% excise, which is $166,625 all-in and printed here, not on page four of a brochure. Charter occasionally? The quote below does the same arithmetic per trip.
Your safety is our top priority — every operator says that. Don’t take our word for it; the three bodies that audit us publish their registries. See for yourself:
Ratings are checkable. On a real build these three links go to our operator listing on each registry — the thing this vertical never lets you verify before you book.
N347HJ · OPERATED · OUR CERTIFICATE
2021 · N347HJ. The Phenom 300E arrives — the first tail on our own certificate.
Rates sit inside the published 2025–26 class ranges · specs from the makers’ sheets · John Wayne’s 5,700 ft runway is why nothing bigger than a super-midsize leaves here full of fuel · every tail, photographed and sourced
Great-circle distance from SNA’s published reference point to each airport’s. Block times are the Phenom 300E’s. Where the far end has a rule of its own — Aspen’s wingspan cap, Jackson’s curfew, Truckee’s weight limit — it’s printed, because it decides which aircraft you can take.
LAS · Las Vegas
197 nm · 46 min on the Phenom 300E
Distances by haversine from SNA 33.6757° N 117.8677° W · block time = distance ÷ 90% of max cruise + 18 min taxi and approach
No jet departures 10:00 PM–7:00 AM (8:00 AM Sundays) under the General Aviation Noise Ordinance. After that we depart from Ontario (ONT), 26 nautical miles east and open all night. The airport’s own page.
Are you interested in whole aircraft charter or a per-seat fare? Either way, the number prints first.