Finance, Taxes, Insurance
Software steers clients through complex decision-making straits
The process for deciding whether or how to buy a business aircraft is fraught with seemingly incalculable factors and subjective considerations.

The process for deciding whether or how to buy a business aircraft is fraught with seemingly incalculable factors and subjective considerations. Over the past five years a small French company called Aero Capital claims to have developed an armory of software power and expertise that can give prospective buyers a higher degree of reassurance that they are making the right move.

The patented Magellan system was first developed over a period of two years at the request of Dassault Aviation, which wanted to offer prospective clients a more objective way of deciding whether its Falcons were right for them. Aero Capital has since expanded the scope of its service; it is now officially endorsed by EADS Socata and Grob Aerospace, and it can provide full analysis of the case for investing in no fewer than 35 different aircraft types.

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