Buying Business Aircraft

Flying is easy compared with acquiring an aircraft. Know the marketplace before you start shopping. It’s a buyers market out there for business jets. I don’t believe prices are going to go much lower than they are today and it’s a great time to invest in a preowned or new business aircraft.

Clay Lacy on Allen Paulson

Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca (L) listens as Allen Paulson lists the qualities of the Gulfstream IV. The year is 1986, the setting a GIV furnishings mockup at the NBAA convention. Selling aboard any of his Gulfstream aircraft—even a mockup—is something Paulson loved.

In Aviation, One Size Does Not Fit All

When I attend international airshows or look at the covers of aviation trade magazines, the focus almost always tends to be on the latest and greatest in business jets. While current offerings in turbofan corporate aircraft are truly marvelous productivity tools for their owners, I think it’s important that we don’t forget the valuable place that turboprops, helicopters and an upcoming generation of very light jets (VLJs) have in our industry.

Keeping Bizav Strong After National Tragedy

Like everyone else in the free world, I was shocked and saddened by the tragedies in New York, Washington DC and Pennsylvania on Sep 11. I can’t imagine anything worse happening and I can’t understand people who would do such things. But this has been a real wake-up call. Now that it’s happened, there are security issues, procedures and bigger questions we have to address.

Large-Cabin Business Jets: Now is the Time to Buy

If you need a large-cabin business jet and can afford one, this is the year to buy. Prices of new and used business jets are all time lows, interest rates have never been more affordable than they are today and there’s a lot of selection out there. This situation, however, is not likely to last.