Aircraft Management

Turnkey Ownership, Simplified

A comprehensive aircraft management program that handles every aspect of ownership — so you enjoy the aircraft while we handle the rest.

What We Manage

Complete Asset Management

From day-to-day operations to long-term strategy, we provide a hands-off ownership experience backed by decades of aviation expertise.

Operations

Flight scheduling, crew coordination, fuel management, and trip logistics — handled around the clock by our operations team so every flight departs on time.

Compliance

FAA regulatory compliance, record-keeping, audit preparation, and airworthiness directives — we keep your aircraft legal and current at all times.

Crew Management

Pilot recruitment, training, scheduling, and payroll. We build and manage a dedicated crew that knows your aircraft and your preferences.

Insurance

Hull and liability coverage sourced through our aviation insurance network. We negotiate competitive rates and manage renewals, claims, and policy adjustments on your behalf.

Administration

Financial reporting, budgeting, vendor management, and expense tracking. Complete transparency into every dollar spent on your aircraft.

Aircraft Sales & Acquisitions

Buy-side and sell-side representation backed by market data and deep industry expertise. We source the right aircraft, negotiate terms, and manage pre-buy inspections, closings, and registration.

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Revenue Generation

Offset Ownership Costs Through Charter Revenue

Your aircraft doesn't have to sit idle when you're not flying. By participating in our charter program, your aircraft generates revenue that directly offsets the fixed costs of ownership — hangar, crew, insurance, and maintenance.

  • Monthly Revenue

    Charter flights generate income that reduces your net cost of ownership, often significantly.

  • Full Transparency

    Detailed monthly reporting shows exactly how your aircraft is performing — revenue, expenses, and utilization at a glance.

  • Owner Priority

    Your travel always comes first. Charter availability is scheduled around your flying needs, never the other way around.

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Financial Benefits

Tax Advantages of Aircraft Ownership

Aircraft ownership — particularly when combined with charter program participation — may offer meaningful tax benefits. The following is general educational information; consult a qualified tax professional for guidance specific to your situation.

Depreciation

Aircraft used for business purposes may qualify for accelerated depreciation schedules, including bonus depreciation provisions that allow significant first-year write-offs.

Operating Expense Deductions

Fuel, maintenance, insurance, hangar, crew salaries, and management fees may be deductible as business expenses when the aircraft is used for qualifying purposes.

Charter Revenue Benefits

Participating in a charter program may enhance the business-use classification of your aircraft, potentially strengthening the tax treatment of ownership-related expenses.

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Maintenance

Part 145 Certified Repair Station

Every managed aircraft is maintained by our FAA Part 145 certified repair station. This means continuity, accountability, and a maintenance team that knows your aircraft inside and out — because they manage it every day.

  • Scheduled Maintenance

    Inspections, phase checks, and calendar-driven maintenance planned proactively to minimize downtime.

  • AOG Response

    Aircraft-on-ground situations are prioritized immediately. Our maintenance team coordinates repairs and parts sourcing to get you flying again.

  • Complete Records

    Digital maintenance tracking, logbook management, and compliance documentation.

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Charter Program

Put Your Aircraft to Work

Managed aircraft can participate in our Part 135 charter program, making your aircraft available to vetted charter clients when you're not flying. Your availability preferences are always respected — you set the rules, we handle the rest.

Safety First

Every charter flight operates under our ARGUS Platinum and Wyvern Wingman certified safety management system — the same standards applied to your personal flights.

Complete Visibility

Real-time tracking, trip reporting, and revenue statements — always know where your aircraft is and how it's performing.

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Aircraft Sales & Acquisitions

Represented Through Every Step

Buying or selling an aircraft is a transaction with a dozen places to lose money quietly — a mission-mismatched airframe, a pre-buy scoped too narrowly, a records gap that surfaces at closing. We represent buyers and sellers from the first conversation through delivery, and because we also operate and maintain these aircraft, our advice comes from the people who will still be here after the wire clears.

Acquisition — Buy Side

  1. 01

    Mission & Budget Analysis

    We start with how you actually fly: typical stage lengths, passenger counts, runway and airport constraints, baggage, and international requirements. Then we model the acquisition price against a realistic annual operating budget, so the shortlist is made of aircraft you can afford to fly — not just to buy.

  2. 02

    Market Search & Sourcing

    We work both the listed market and the quiet one, reaching owners and operators through our network before an aircraft is ever advertised. Candidates are compared at the serial-number level — pedigree, engine and APU program enrollment, avionics mandate compliance, and damage history.

  3. 03

    Offer & Letter of Intent

    We structure and negotiate the LOI — price, deposit into a licensed escrow account, inspection scope, delivery condition, and who carries which cost. The terms written here decide how much leverage you have when the pre-buy findings come back, so this is where we spend the time.

  4. 04

    Pre-Buy Inspection

    We manage the inspection end to end — at our own Part 145 repair station or an authorized service center, whichever is right for the type. We set the scope, attend the inspection, and turn the findings into a discrepancy list that separates airworthiness items from cosmetic ones, each with a cost attached.

  5. 05

    Records, Title & Liens

    Logbook continuity, airworthiness directive compliance, traceability on major components, STC and major-repair documentation, plus a title search and lien releases through our escrow agent. An aircraft with a records gap is worth measurably less — we find it before you own it.

  6. 06

    Closing & Delivery

    Funds and documents move through a licensed aviation escrow agent. We coordinate the bill of sale and FAA registration — or deregistration and export where the aircraft is coming from abroad — confirm insurance is bound before the ferry flight, and deliver the aircraft to your home base.

  7. 07

    Entry Into Service

    Hangar, crew sourcing, initial and recurrent training, and enrollment in our management program. If you want the aircraft to offset its own cost, we add it to our charter program so it can begin generating revenue as soon as it is conformed.

Sale — Sell Side

  1. 01

    Valuation & Timing

    A grounded number, built from current comparables, program status, time remaining before the next major inspection, and what similar aircraft are actually closing at — not asking. We will also tell you when waiting is the better move.

  2. 02

    Pre-Sale Preparation

    Records organized and digitized, open squawks closed, and near-term inspections weighed. Every discrepancy a buyer's inspection uncovers becomes a price negotiation — the cheapest time to address them is before the aircraft is listed.

  3. 03

    Marketing & Exposure

    Professional photography, a specification sheet that answers the questions buyers actually ask, and placement across the major inventory platforms. For owners who prefer not to advertise, we run a discreet, targeted approach through our operator and broker network instead.

  4. 04

    Buyer Qualification

    We vet interest before it costs you anything. Demonstration flights, records packages, and downtime go to buyers who have shown they can close — so the aircraft stays available to you while the process runs.

  5. 05

    Negotiation & Pre-Buy Management

    We represent your position through the buyer's inspection, holding the line between genuine airworthiness findings — which are yours to correct — and the wish list that often arrives attached to them.

  6. 06

    Closing & Handover

    Escrow, title clearing, lien releases, and the delivery logistics. We work alongside your tax counsel and aviation attorney on structure and delivery location — we coordinate with your advisors rather than standing in for them.

What We Bring to the Transaction

An In-House Repair Station

Our Part 145 repair station means pre-buy inspections without waiting in someone else's queue, and a scope written by technicians who answer to you rather than to the deal.

An Operator's Cost Model

We fly and maintain this equipment daily. The operating numbers we show you come from our own books, not from a manufacturer's brochure.

A Certificate to Fly It On

A Part 135 certificate and a full management program are already in place, so a newly acquired aircraft can be conformed and earning rather than sitting.

One Point of Contact

Escrow, title, registration, insurance, crew, and hangar are coordinated by the same team through closing and into service. You are not handed off at the wire.

Start a Conversation

Tell us where you are in the process — whether that's a signed letter of intent or a first look at the market — and we'll take it from there. Every inquiry is handled confidentially.

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Your Aircraft, Our Expertise

Whether you're purchasing your first aircraft or looking for a better management solution, our team is ready to build a program tailored to your ownership goals.

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Houston (KHOU) Hobby Airport 8850 W Monroe Rd
Houston, TX 77061
Dallas (KDAL) Love Field 7363 Herb Kelleher Way
Dallas, TX 75235