AcheterUnAvion

Independent aircraft broker

Buy a private jet knowing exactly what you are paying for

We handle the purchase, sale, management and charter of business aircraft. Every aircraft gets a valuation broken down factor by factor, with the source of each figure. You see the price and you see how it was reached.

67
Aircraft models priced
169
Airports covered
7
Continents served
Jake Heinemann · Pexels
  • Airbus
  • Beechcraft
  • Bell
  • Boeing
  • Bombardier
  • Cessna
  • Cirrus
  • Daher
  • Dassault
  • Diamond
  • Embraer
  • Gulfstream
  • Hawker
  • Honda
  • Learjet
  • Leonardo
  • Pilatus
  • Piper
  • Robinson

What we do

Buying, selling, management, charter and revenue operation

Most brokers handle one of these and refer the rest. Value leaks at every handover. We run all five ourselves.

  • Buy an aircraft

    We represent the buyer and nobody else. Requirement definition, worldwide market search, pre-purchase inspection oversight, escrow, closing, delivery and import.

    • Exclusive buyer-side mandate
    • Pre-purchase inspection oversight
    • Escrow and title search
    • Import, VAT and registration
    Buy an aircraft
  • Sell an aircraft

    Exclusive mandate, evidence-based pricing, controlled marketing. We establish what your aircraft is worth before we quote the market a number.

    • Documented valuation
    • Marketing to qualified buyers
    • Offer handling and negotiation
    • Closing and export
    Sell an aircraft
  • Aircraft management

    Crew, maintenance, continuing airworthiness, insurance and budget. One monthly statement, reconciled to the flight hour.

    • CAMO coordination
    • Crew recruitment and type rating
    • Maintenance planning
    • Budget and monthly reporting
    Aircraft management
  • Private jet charter

    On-demand flights sourced across several operators and priced line by line, positioning included. Passengers never see those empty legs and always pay for them.

    • Competitive operator sourcing
    • Itemised quote, every cost separated
    • Slots, overflight permits and customs
    • Round-the-clock trip support
    Private jet charter
  • Revenue operation

    Placing your aircraft on an air operator certificate so it earns during your idle weeks, without becoming the spare capacity an operator sells first.

    • Placement on an AOC
    • Owner priority written into the contract
    • Revenue forecast
    • Monthly utilisation reporting
    Revenue operation

Aircraft valuation

What your aircraft is worth, and on what basis

Most valuations amount to a number in a PDF. Ours returns the figure and the twelve factors that produced it, each with its weight and its source. Where a figure is missing we say so, and the range widens.

Cessna Citation CJ4 Gen3 · 2016

$5,554,677

Range $5,249,170$5,860,184

Coverage100%

What moves the price

  • Engine programme

    Enrolled on an hourly cost maintenance programme, transferable at sale

    +5%
  • Airframe hours

    2,960 h against 3,800 h typical at 10 years (78%)

    +4%
  • Cycles

    2,410 cycles, 1.2 h per cycle against 2.2 h typical for the type

    -3.7%
  • Interior

    5 years since last refurbishment

    -3.5%
  • Engine life remaining

    26% of a 4,000 h interval remaining

    -3.4%
  • Next inspection

    180 h to the next major inspection

    -2.6%
Value an aircraft

Coverage

Coverage measures how much of the model received real input. A poorly documented aircraft does not get a confident price. It gets a wide range and a list of what is missing to narrow it.

What we do not know is written down

A factor we cannot calculate is removed from the calculation. We never swap in an average that would look neutral. That stand-in then spreads through everything downstream without anyone noticing.

References, not substitutes

External references sit beside our figure so you can see whether the model has drifted. They never replace it.

How an acquisition runs

Nine stages, and you follow all of them

Every stage carries a document, a date and a name. Nothing moves forward because somebody says it has.

  1. 01

    Requirement definition

    Mission profile, runway constraints, range with real payload, budget including the first two years of ownership.

  2. 02

    Market search

    Every candidate, advertised or not, with our valuation beside each asking price.

  3. 03

    Shortlist

    Three to five ranked aircraft, with the reason each one is on the list and the finding that would take it off.

  4. 04

    Letter of intent

    Price, deposit, inspection scope and walk-away conditions agreed before anybody travels.

  5. 05

    Pre-purchase inspection

    At a facility with no commercial relationship to the seller. Discrepancy list priced, then negotiated.

  6. 06

    Escrow

    Funds and title with an independent escrow agent. We never touch client money.

  7. 07

    Closing

    Bill of sale, deregistration, registration, lien search and release, insurance bound.

  8. 08

    Delivery

    Ferry flight, import, VAT position, crew familiarisation, handover of the operating manual.

  9. 09

    First year

    Maintenance plan, budget against actuals, valuation refreshed at twelve months.

How we are paid and what we are not

The conflicts of interest, written down

This industry keeps its incentives to itself. Here are ours.

  • We never hold client funds

    Purchase money moves through an independent escrow agent who also runs the title search. We are not a party to that account.

  • One side per transaction

    We act for the buyer or for the seller, never both. Dual agency is the exact point at which a broker's interest stops matching yours.

  • Our fee does not follow the price you pay

    On a buy-side mandate we are paid a fixed fee agreed before the search starts. A percentage of the purchase price would reward us for you overpaying.

  • We are not an air operator

    Charter is tendered across several operators on the merits of each trip. We have no fleet to fill.

  • The regulatory position

    Commercial air transport requires an AOC in Europe or a Part 135 certificate in the United States, held by an operator. Continuing airworthiness sits with an approved CAMO. We coordinate both without pretending to be either.

Where we work

Wherever the aircraft happens to be

An aircraft is a mobile asset and its market is worldwide. A seller in Sao Paulo, an inspection in Basel, a buyer in Riyadh and an escrow agent in Oklahoma City is an ordinary working week.

Europe
50
airports
North America
36
airports
Asia
29
airports
South America
20
airports
Africa
15
airports
Middle East
14
airports
Oceania
5
airports

Start with a conversation, not a listing

Tell us how you need to travel. We will tell you whether buying is the right answer, including when it is not.