Certified Aviator and Flight Attendant Gear - Designed by Real Crews
Last updated: March 5, 2026
Why buy aviator and flight attendant gear from companies that are not pilots and flight attendants? The Certified Aviator series is a qualification given to certain aviation products including apparel and accessories that meet strict guidelines for quality, authenticity, and durability. Our products carry these logos because they've been designed, tested, and approved by real aviation professionals.
The following are the requirements to earn the Certified Aviator designation and the Certified Flight Attendant qualification:
Design Standards: Made in USA by Real Aviators
All products with this branding mark must be made in the USA. This gives you the assurance of two things:
1. Authentic Aviation Design: The product is not made by a clearinghouse in Asia whose main goal is to flood the market with generic designs that may or may not have an aviation theme. There are many companies who merely employ subcontractors to copy designs and mass produce replicas in the hopes of gaining market share. These individuals or designers have never flown a plane or been to the airport. This makes a difference in design and credibility.
2. Real Customer Service: If they are not credible aviators, what makes you think they will give good customer service and answer questions about product durability? When you buy from us, you're buying from pilots and flight attendants who understand the demands of the job and stand behind every product.
Field Testing: Airport-Proven Durability
All aviation products with the Certified Aviator designation are field tested for quality and durability. For example, our unique luggage tag offerings are applied to actual pilot and flight attendant crew member bags and are tested for one month in the actual airline environment. All apparel is tested with graphic durability by machine washing and drying several times with inspections for fit and comfort.
We can't just give it to you and hope it works out—our name is on the box and we stand by our products with our Crew Van Guarantee.
Research and Knowledge Base
Along with authentic design comes real research and knowledge. If you are buying apparel for pilots, then those items have been designed by actual pilots. Same thing goes for flight attendants. Crews that are active in the field provide excellent feedback on what designs work and what designs need to be scrapped (and some have been).
This is very beneficial if you are not a pilot or flight attendant and you are buying for someone who is. It takes the guesswork out of wondering if they will like the item or not.
Our Value Proposition: Real Aviators, Real Products
There are lots of companies that create designs without any real knowledge of the aviation theme. We are real aviators—we walk the walk and talk the talk. Our designs are sometimes copied because we have our hands on the pulse of the flying community.
Wouldn't you rather buy from a company whose passion is aviation and takes the time to create meaningful and applicable products? We are the real deal. We live to design new aviation products. We talk about it, podcast about it, and we write about it. We are pilots. Please reach out to us with any questions at any time.
Certified Flight Attendant Gear
The same parameters that go along with our Certified Aviators designation now apply to all of our Flight Attendant Accessories that have this seal of approval. Don't buy it if it has not been tested and designed by flight attendant crews.
Our flight attendant luggage tags, tumblers, jewelry, and apparel all carry the Genuine Flight Attendant Gear logo—your guarantee that real cabin crew members designed and tested every item.
Crew Van Guarantee
Products that show the "Crew Van Guarantee" have been tested in the airport environment and certified durable. If you have any quality issues with products bearing this guarantee, reach out to us for a free replacement. No questions asked.
This is our promise to you: every product we sell has been through the rigors of airline life—early report times, long duty days, crew vans, hotel shuttles, and everything in between. If it doesn't hold up, we'll make it right.
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Browse our complete collection of Certified Aviator apparel, Genuine Flight Attendant Gear, and aviation gifts—all designed, tested, and approved by real pilots and cabin crew members.
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