Expert Opinion
AINsight: Timing Counts in Buying, Financing Bizjets
With preowned business jet inventory low and demand at record highs, speed is important to successfully purchase an airplane using either financing or cash

The market to buy and finance preowned business aircraft has ramped up to astonishing levels since the onslaught of the pandemic. Inventory has fallen to all-time lows while prices have increased to surprising heights.

Brokers have purchaser-clients anxiously waiting in the wings for the right aircraft to become available. Other purchasers have raced to buy aircraft regardless of the aircraft’s age, condition, or pedigree.

David G. Mayer
AIN Contributor
About the author

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].

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