The recent buyer’s market for preowned business aircraft has become a seller’s market. U.S. buyers recognize this phenomenal change and, consequently, search the globe to buy the right preowned aircraft among an estimated 900 saleable units left for purchase.
New aircraft sales aside, there are several points to consider when buying an aircraft outside the U.S. primarily for return and registration of the aircraft in the U.S.:
David G. Mayer is a member of the global Aviation Practice Group at Shackelford, McKinley & Norton in Dallas, which handles private aircraft matters, including regulatory compliance, tax planning, purchases, sales, leasing and financing, risk management, insurance, aircraft management and operations, hangar leasing, and related corporate work. Mayer frequently represents corporations and high- and ultra-high-net worth individuals and other aircraft owners, flight departments, lessees, borrowers, operators, sellers, purchasers, corporations and managers, as well as lessors and lenders. He can be contacted at [email protected].
