A listener went shopping for a mid-’90s Piper Archer.Low time. No damage history. Original paint. Original panel. Engine close to TBO.The seller was asking $189,000. VREF put the airplane at roughly…
For more than four decades, one story helped define the legacy Citation market:This is the jet you can fly yourself.Your first jet. Your hands on the throttles. Your family in the back. Nobody…
A parent takes out a home-equity line.A student wires tens of thousands of dollars to a flight school.The school has experienced instructors, airline partnerships, manufacturer affiliations, national…
Last episode, Jason explained why nobody should wire eight figures directly to an aircraft seller without escrow.This episode asks the uncomfortable follow-up:Why will some of those same sophisticated…
Somewhere today, someone may wire $40 million to an aircraft escrow company they’ve never visited, run by people they’ve never met—and barely think twice about it.Why?Because aviation runs on…
An owner has been paying into an engine program for 11 years.More than $1 million contributed.The airplane is worth roughly $3 million.And the overhaul those payments are supposed to protect him from…
The September 1 VREF value revision is live—and the numbers tell a very different story than the broad “strong market” or “weak market” headlines.Business jet transaction volume is down nearly 19%…
Jason Zilberbrand found something unusual on an ordinary corporate website:Luscombe Mooney Aircraft Company.Two historic general aviation brands. One masthead. Mooney’s address. Mooney’s phone number.…
How does an entire market start pricing assets at numbers buyers have never actually paid?That’s the question behind Episode 53 of The Truth About the Market.And although Jason starts with Ferrari,…
In this episode, we cover:• Why the Challenger 3500 has become the industry’s favorite proof that the super-midsize market is running hot• What Jason found after reviewing every recorded Challenger…
