People often have a litany of questions when I tell them what I do. The simple answer is that I work in a family business as an aircraft broker and we help people buy and sell corporate jets on an exclusive basis worldwide. In today’s economic environment most people immediately question if anyone is...
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Exceeding Expectations
Pre-Purchase Planning, Part 2
Cabin Apply the same principles to the interior of the aircraft as you do the exterior. Take time while the aircraft is powered up to functionally check every system in the aircraft (in today’s world that means manual seat adjustment, cabinetry latches and all door operations), check all lighting, switches, entertainment systems, monitors, galley...
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Pre-Purchase Planning, Part 1
This is the first in a series of blog posts regarding pre-purchase inspection planning. These are, however, good ideas for all owners and departments to watch for throughout the life of your ownership. Each post will focus on a different part of the aircraft. Exterior Start with a complete external aircraft walk around by maintenance personnel...
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First Time Buyers – more than just an acquisition
Yesterday we closed on two different aircraft. One was an acquisition for a first time buyer and it was one of two first time buyers we have been working with (the other project is still in process). We have a successful history of working with a lot of first time buyers and they are...
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Robust or bust? To be or not to be? These are the questions.
Is this or is this not a recovery? I wrote an article recently about how to measure a recovery. In my daily conversations with industry players as well as prospects and clients this same subject comes up. Are we in a recovery? What shape is it? In financial circles we hear descriptions of...
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Being proactive….
It is easy to think that the ads that we run, listings on AMSTAT and JETNET, emails we send out and postings on websites are all of the aircraft marketing that we need to do in order to sell our clients aircraft. When we rely strictly on those venues we end up being only...
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Distractions.
Maybe, “distractions” is too harsh a word to describe wishful thinking. This market recovery is really no different from others in the past. Activity was down for an extended period of time. With little transaction activity we had lower prices. For a while it seemed as if you could just put up the gone...
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