Aviation digital partner — Honolulu, HI
The digital partner for aviation businesses.
Premium websites, growth, creative, and systems for flight schools, air tour operators, and charter companies — built by a pilot who ships production software.
- 5
- Aviation businesses launched online
- 70+
- Pages designed, written, shipped
- 30+
- SEO articles ranking in Google
- 24hr
- Response to every message
Why Pylon8
Most aviation businesses are stuck with a digital presence that doesn't reflect the quality of what they actually do. Pylon8 exists to close that gap — one industry, every discipline, all under one roof.
We're not a website shop, a social media agency, or a video production house. We're the digital partner aviation operators keep on the team: the people who know what a discovery flight is worth, why speed-to-lead wins bookings, and how a tourist chooses between two tour operators at 11pm the night before.
What we deliver
Four outcomes. Every capability your business needs to get there.
Selected work
Five aviation businesses, launched and growing.
The founder
A CFI who ships production software.
Pylon8 is a founder-led studio run by Nathan Van Kempen — a professional certified flight instructor and a professional software engineer. Two full careers, not a hobby in either direction.
Most agencies spread your project across four people — an account manager, a designer who has never seen a preflight, a developer, and a marketer working from a keyword tool. Every handoff loses information. Here, your website, your campaigns, and the code underneath are all decided by the same person who knows the difference between Part 61 and Part 141.
More about Nathan
Nathan Van Kempen · CFI · Software engineer · Honolulu, Hawaii
How we work
From first call to first booking.
01
Discovery
We study your airport, your market, and your competitors. We learn what actually drives student starts, tour bookings, and charter inquiries in your area — because we've stood on that ramp.
02
Strategy
We map the outcome before touching design: who your customer is, what they search, where they hesitate, and what has to exist for them to book with you instead of the operator down the field.
03
Build
Websites, campaigns, creative, and systems — built by the same person who planned them. No handoffs, no lost context, no account managers translating between departments.
04
Grow
We ship, wire up analytics, and track every lead from day one. Then we keep optimizing — content, campaigns, and conversion — as the numbers come in.
Start a conversation
Your next customer is searching right now.
Tell us about your operation. We respond to every message within 24 hours — usually much faster.