Expert Tips for Buying and Selling Business Aircraft: Maximizing ROI and Market Insights

July 2024

The purchase or sale of a business aircraft can be a complex undertaking requiring expertise to ensure a maximum return on investment. When purchasing an aircraft, you’ll need to analyze many factors to determine which make and model is best suited for your budget and mission. Purchasers and sellers alike need a clear picture of model-specific market variables. This involves extensive research of on- and off-market options, the technical and ownership history of available aircraft, and many other variables impacting the value proposition of each serial number under consideration.

Sometimes, it’s not about what you know. It’s who you know.

Leading aircraft acquisition and sales organizations are typically well-known in the industry. They have sales executives who facilitate and nurture relationships and build extensive networks of aircraft owners, operators, tax, accounting and legal advisors, and other brokers. Each company’s network is carefully crafted with the goal of connecting buyers and sellers and gaining access to confidentially marketed aircraft opportunities and “inside” information that is not readily available or easily accessible to the public.

In any high-value transaction, immediate access to high-quality intelligence is key to optimizing returns and achieving a successful result. While keeping privacy paramount, transactional integrity and transparency are vital and capitalizing on expertise and connections helps with turning real-time data into actionable intelligence.

The Duncan Aviation Aircraft Sales & Acquisitions Team compiled some of their expertise to prepare this Straight Talk book, which explores important considerations when navigating the pre-owned aircraft marketplace.

Read the Straight Talk about Aircraft Sales & Acquisitions here

If you have any questions about preowned business jet or turboprop markets, would like to discuss a potential transaction, or wish to learn more about the services we offer, call us and ask for Aircraft Sales & Acquisitions at +1 402.475.2611. You can also visit us at DuncanAviation.aero/AircraftSales or email us at AircraftSales@DuncanAviation.com.