Small Business Jets for Sale

It would be easier to buy a new aircraft because all you have to do is go to the designer's factory and they can direct you to a retailer if they don't directly do it. Well, now that we've left the simple things behind, let's immerse ourselves in buying a used aircraft.

This will give you a good impression of sites, businesses, individuals, etc. that are on the scene to resell your aircraft. When you are living near a small airfield (I think a D-class or C-class according to your surroundings), you will probably have a small amount of airplanes.

After all, there are a number of papers that have offered planes for sale. Again, it may be best to ask for a copy at a city' s own regional airports or visit the web.

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Anyone who sells company jets can speak about the safety, comfort and versatility of their product. Not to mention that these special company values are 600 miles per ounce of Oden every ounce of achievement - quicker than planes, with interior that makes first-class performance look like steamage.

The threat of economic downturn could lead to more businesses deciding to conserve cash for debts or other important items. Recent declines in business aircraft propellant volumes indicate that businesses are already using their jets less. Unless corporations spend on plant and machinery, they don't spend on aircraft," said Angelo Fiataruolo, chairman of Premier Aircraft, a Westport, Conn-based aircraft broking company.

Following a boost in turnover in the 1970s, particularly to wealthy petroleum corporations, the business aircraft business was nose-supported as cost-conscious firms concentrated on used aircraft types. It recovered in the later 1980s, with producers selling 263 new jets last year up from 182 in 1987. The number of US businesses using personal jets rose from 2,862 in 1986 to 3,032 last year.

In this year, jets sold are steady, but used aircraft sold are in decline. US jets have reduced overseas corporations to about half of global turnover. Among its main rivals are the Canadair Aerospace Group, British Aerospace P.L.C. and Electronique Serge Dassault, a leading France-based group. Drawn by a sluggish U.S. dollar, more overseas firms - in Brazil, Venezuela and Mexico - are purchasing U.S. jets.

To be successful in the personal jets business, a business should try to be either the least costly or the least costly. Once known for its small propeller-driven aircraft, Cessna now makes almost all its living with a single plane, the Citation. The Cessna Group owns 62 per cent of the world merchant aircraft business, with an order book of 70 jets to keep the production line running until 1992.

Cessna' s jets are relatively cheap compared to the rest of the sector, with a price between 2.5 and 7 million dollars. While Gulfstream is selling far fewer jets, it is still succeeding. Former Gulfstream owners Allen E. Paulson teamed up with Forstman Little & Company this year to repurchase Gulfstream from Chrysler Corporation for $825 million.

If you have $25 million to buy a G-IV, you have it whether there is a downturn or not," said Alan Staats, chairman of Flight Level Design, an air travel ad company.

Aircraft operational expenses, which typically top $1,000 per incident, seem to be a minor concern in comparison to acquisition expenses. The higher price of fuels, which has shocked airline operators, has hardly been perceived by business aviation firms. Few, if any, are company jets manufacturers on fuel-efficient engines. Don't let anyone within Dean Humphrey's ear call the company jets luxury.

An outstanding bill would introduce a 10 % "luxury tax" on the acquisition of a new business aircraft. National Business Aircraft Association Chairman Jonathan How rejected the bill, but said there were some unfortunate instances of misuse in the 1980s. As well as showing their fleet, most businesses wish they could use stealth to make jets unseen by stockholders.

Only a few jets have their own logo. A number of large aerodromes which wish to book take-off and landing areas for airline companies discourage business travel. In order to divert small aircraft away from Boston's Logan Airport, the state port authority met them with high landings charges, which were recently abandoned in the courts. Business jets dealers responded to the critique with the statement that their aircraft were essential for many managers.

Managers in a personal plane can go through annual reports without being overheard," said John House, spokesperson for Falcon Jet, a Dassault affiliate. Next, jets vendors are raving about the capability to navigate directly to targets without the cumbersome routeing that carriers' hub-and-spoke signage brings. You can''t get from point A to point to point after point after point without going through C, as well as sometimes going through dark and sometimes E," said Henry Ogrodzinski, spokesperson for the General Aviation Manufacturers Association.

And, because jets can touch down at hundreds of millions of small aerodromes, they allow managers to access towns that airline carriers do not cater to. Business is moving further away from the trodden path," said Baron Thomas, a Dallas based Jet-Broker. Mr Paulson, with a seasonal sale call for each seasons, arguments that the supply of personal jets should grow as the business decelerates because businesses need to track more consumers and clientele.

"If business is going badly, you need the plane all the more," he said. Not all jets have increased the sale boost. By 1962, the firm was introducing the industry's best-selling Lear 23 commercial airliner, and the company's inspired president, Bill Lear, became a household name. But in the last five years Learjet has been purchased and resold three different ways, with most purchasers being more interested in finance holdings to write off their tax loss rather than build them.

Few new aircraft types were built, and its unit volume fell from 134 aircraft in 1981 to 16 in 1987. At the beginning of this year, the business was acquired by Bombardier Inc. Canadair, a Canada-based snowmobile and industry equipments manufacturer and owner, for $75 million. Indeed, the firm recently launched a new, more aerodynamic version, the Lear 31, to restore part of the company's state.

The Sukhoi, a Russian enterprise known for the Su-27, a combat aircraft in Afghanistan, has joined forces with Gulfstream Aerospace to create the world's first commercial ultrasonic aircraft. As the first common air carrier between the Soviets and the United States, the pilot still faces many barriers that go beyond the combination of corporate capitalism and societalism.

With 50 million dollars the aircraft would be about twice as costly as the Gulfstream G-IV, which is today the most costly business aircraft in the whole you. Gulfstream president Allen Paulson said the aircraft's styling could dampen the sound surge. Sceptics once asked if anyone would spend 25 million dollars on a personal aircraft, he said.

The Gulfstream imagines an aircraft that could transport 15 to 20 people, and could travel at Mach 2 or about 1,500 mph, slightly quicker than the Anglo-French Concorde, the only other civil subsonic aircraft in the world. The Gulfstream company is planning to supply the dashboard electronic and merchandising systems. Following several encounters, Russian and US engineering staff created a model of the aircraft, which was shown at the Farnborough Aero Show in the UK at the beginning of the following year.