Expert Opinion
AINsight: Aircraft Finance Losing Altitude in Bank Crisis
Despite recent bank casualties and market volatility, most financiers can and will continue to finance private aircraft—but under stricter terms.

The global banking crisis may have subsided for money-center banks, but aircraft financiers have not emerged unscathed or free of the turbulence plaguing other U.S. banks.

The current banking crisis started with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank on March 10, Signature Bank on March 12, the takeover by UBS of Credit Suisse on March 19, and the FDIC takeover of First Republic Bank and sale of its deposits to JPMorgan on May 1. These closed banks, except Signature, actively made private aircraft loans, as do UBS and JPMorgan today.

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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