MyFBO has served flight schools and flying clubs for a long time. It is now being sunset on August 31, 2026. If your school runs on it, the practical question is simple: where do scheduling, dispatch, and pilot currency live after that date? This post lays out what is changing and how to plan, without drama.

What "shutting down" means for your school

After August 31, 2026 you will need another system to book aircraft, dispatch flights, and track pilot currency. The day-to-day work of a flight school does not stop, so the goal is a clean handoff to a new system with your records intact. A shutdown date is not the same as a crisis. It is a deadline, and deadlines are easiest to manage when you start early and work backward from the date.

The key thing to understand is that the deadline affects three separate jobs your current system does for you every day. Each one needs a new home, and ideally the same new home so they keep working together. Those three jobs are scheduling, dispatch, and currency tracking.

The three things to protect

As you plan, keep three things front of mind:

  • Your people and accounts. Your pilots, instructors, customers, and account numbers should move across so nothing is re-keyed from scratch.
  • Your schedule. Pilots and instructors need to keep booking without a gap, including the self-service bookings your members are used to making on their own.
  • Your currency tracking. Medicals, flight reviews, and aircraft checkouts have to keep being watched so no one flies out of currency.

If you write down those three buckets and confirm where each one lands after the move, you have covered the hard part of the planning. Everything else is scheduling and configuration.

Why timing matters

The worst time to switch systems is the week a deadline lands. Vendors get busy, staff get stressed, and small problems become big ones. The better plan is to start in early summer, run a short overlap, and be fully moved with weeks to spare.

There is a second reason to move early this year. August 31, 2026 is also the last day of the ScheduleFlight founding-rate window, so the same date that ends MyFBO closes the best pricing. Booking your move for the summer protects your operation and locks in the lower rate at the same time. You can review the numbers in detail on the pricing section of the site.

A modern path forward

ScheduleFlight by FBO Director is built for exactly this moment. It is the flight-school scheduling, dispatch, and pilot-currency add-on to FBO Director, with a day, week, and month scheduling board, conflict detection, self-service booking for pilots and instructors, and currency checked at the moment of booking. It is a responsive web app that runs in any browser today, with native iOS and Android apps coming soon.

Because it shares one customer record with FBO Director, your scheduling and your billing stay connected instead of living in two disconnected tools. If you want to see how the replacement maps to what MyFBO did for you, the MyFBO replacement overview walks through the features side by side and explains how the assisted move works.

Migration is assisted. Our team moves your pilots, instructors, customers, and account numbers for you, so you are not exporting spreadsheets or figuring out an import on your own. ScheduleFlight requires an active FBO Director subscription, and the founding rate is $179/month if you sign up by August 31, 2026, locked through December 31, 2029. After September 1, 2026 the rate is $249/month, and a 14-day free trial is included.

How to start planning today

You do not need a project plan to get moving. Three short steps cover it:

  • List what you keep in MyFBO today: your roster, instructors, customers, accounts, aircraft, and your reservation history.
  • Pick a target move date in the summer so you finish well before August 31, 2026.
  • Decide who on your staff will help test the new system during a short overlap period.

For a deeper walkthrough of the actual move, see our step-by-step guide to migrating off MyFBO, which breaks the process into a data inventory, a booked migration, a configuration pass, and a short parallel period before you turn the old system off.

Frequently asked questions

Is MyFBO really shutting down?

Yes. MyFBO is being sunset on August 31, 2026. After that date you will need another system for scheduling, dispatch, and currency tracking.

What should I do first?

Start planning early in the summer. Confirm what records you keep, pick a migration timeline, and avoid leaving the move to the final week.

What can I replace MyFBO with?

Flight schools moving off MyFBO use FBO Director plus the ScheduleFlight add-on for scheduling, dispatch, and pilot-currency tracking, with assisted migration included.

Will I lose my data when MyFBO shuts down?

Not if you plan ahead. With assisted migration, our team moves your pilots, instructors, customers, and account numbers for you before the shutdown date, so your records carry over to the new system.