Aviation Specialists Group
PREVIOUS ASSIGNMENTS
- For a European bank, ongoing valuations of over 100 aircraft in a securitization.
- For a large operating lessor, determined the market and securitized values for several hundred jetliners.
- For a lessor and airline involved in a bankruptcy, by mutual agreement of both parties forecast expected future cash flows including rentals, maintenance costs, redelivery and reconfiguration expenses and performed present value analysis in order to quantify damages.
- For a lessor involved in a dispute regarding lease rental renewals for a narrowbody jetliner, analyzed and set the new market lease rental rate and coordinated the retention of a third appraiser as part of the dispute resolution process.
- For an overseas fleet buyer, on-site physical inspections and detailed appraisals of a fleet of over 100 jetliners on lease to airlines worldwide as part of its due diligence process.
- For a manufacturer, a market analysis and future value projections for a new technology airliner.
- For an insurer, future value analyses of multiple aircraft types under balanced, weak and bad market conditions.
- For a creditors group, expert advice and testimony regarding a bankrupt airline.
- For a major investment bank, forecasts of current and future aircraft values and operating lease rentals of over fifty aircraft for use in an investment prospectus.
- For a European-based investor/asset manager, regular Securitized Value analysis (i.e., present value of the lease rentals and residual) for multiple airliners.
- For an insurer, aircraft values, market conditions and risk assessment for a large aircraft portfolio.
- For an offshore airline’s legal counsel, undertook the prepurchase appraisal of a narrowbody jetliner and provided ongoing technical advice with respect to the aircraft’s technical status and market value.
- For a lessor, prepared an overview of the jetliner market and risk analysis of multiple jetliner types as part of an investor presentation.
- For a risk manager, provided historical Base and Current Market Value analysis of multiple aircraft types.
- For manufacturers, studies forecasting future value behaviors for new regional jetliners.
- For an airline involved in an operating lease rental reset, an analysis of current market rentals for a widebody jetliner.
- For an investor group, ongoing semiannual appraisals of an aircraft portfolio of several dozen airliners.
- For a major airline, valuations of the fleets of regional jets and turboprops of two acquired carriers.
- For an offshore investment bank, advice and analysis on historic and projected jetliner values and operating lease rentals as well as the development of a maintenance reserve model for forecasting future maintenance reserve receipts and payments.
- For an advisor/lessor, an extensive study covering long-term demand for jetliners, aviation industry cyclicality, historic returns on jetliner investments, capital requirements for aircraft financing, jetliner value and lease rental trends and a perspective on the rise of and demand for operating leasing.
- For a manufacturer, the valuation of a large portfolio of regional jetliners.
- For a government agency, the valuation of every commercial aircraft in the United States.
- For an offshore finance house, value and rental analyses on airliners as part of an ongoing retainer arrangement.
- For an offshore bank, inspections and appraisals of several aircraft involved in an international sale and leaseback.
- For the seller of multiple aircraft, undertook research and provided advice as to market values and conditions in order to help determine aircraft offering prices.
- For an offshore operator, inspected and appraised a group of regional airliners.
