Building a clean-sheet FAA Part 23 certified aircraft takes $125โ150M and 5+ years.
Or one can acquire the Liberty XL-2 type certificate. IFR-certified, validated in 40+ countries, 132 units produced.
Includes the TC, engineering drawings, manuals, flight test data, and certification data. Tooling, trademarks, parts inventory, and STCs are not included.
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Lots of chatter going around on the Trump Gulfstream/Bombardier tweet. Here's my take on what that strategy is really all about.
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Long term, the ubiquitous metric used to measure business jet industry health will always keep rising, despite the underlying reality. https://t.co/xCv1oHv6lC
The business jet product spectrum is getting very top-heavy with new ultra-long-range entrants. Think Falcon 10X, Gulfstream 700/800 & Bombardier Global 8000. Outsized profit margins in this segment will soon become a fond memory. https://t.co/ZlX2owCvF2
I acted as exclusive sales agent for Brazos Safety Systems, formerly Truth Data Insights, a global leader in Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) and Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) analytics. It was acquired by Ataline Capital Management, a newly formed private equity firm investing in technology, business and financial services.
My firm, AvStrategies, helps founder- and family-owned aviation firms sell their business. https://t.co/VujGXyC5RG
More on Brazos and Ataline https://t.co/kOLiFo58tf
Trump's election stands to be an overall benefit to business aviation. Those who claim that 25% tariffs will be disastrous don't understand his negotiating style. #bizav#businessaviation#privatejet#aviation
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Sporty's President John Zimmerman interviewed me for their acclaimed Pilot's Discretion Podcast. Lots of candid, out-of- school discussion on current aviation topics, plus my personal quest to fly again https://t.co/IfqpRf61Qh
Supersonic will take significant government funding to progress, not airlines trying to create a public image of being cool https://t.co/ffw4U3NWxG #airline#aviation#supersonic#airplane#aircraft