Selecting Your Aircraft
Buying a business jet is a complex, highly-specialized process. For a smooth, confident purchase, we encourage you to add TAG Aviation's knowledge and experience to your acquisition team.
Together with your legal and financial advisors, your TAG acquisition representative will help you establish priorities and requirements, evaluate and compare aircraft, prepare an offer, and close your transaction.
TAG Aviation contributes an owner's perspective, an operator's knowledge and decades of business aviation experience. Put it to work for you. Call TAG Aviation to assist with your next aircraft acquisition.
Elements of an Aircraft Acquisition
Requirements and Priorities
- Where do you fly? How often, and with how many other passengers?
- What is your budget? Have you evaluated full ownership against fractional-ownership, leasing, membership and charter options?
- What are your finance, exchange, depreciation, taxation and timing considerations?
State of the Market
- Aircraft markets are cyclical: what is their current status and momentum?
- What is the recent bid, ask and sale price history? What percent of the fleet is for sale? Is availability increasing or decreasing?
- How do available aircraft compare? What are the best tactics to evaluate them without driving up prices?
The Aircraft
- Which aircraft type best meets your requirements? Are there suitable alternatives? What total costs of ownership and operation should you anticipate?
- What is the market value of your preferred aircraft? What alternatives are available for successive offers, if necessary?
The Purchase Process
- Planning - Aircraft selection, offer sequencing, negotiation planning
- Offer - Letter of intent, proposing price and terms, response to counteroffers, negotiation and deposit processes
- Contract - Negotiating a definitive purchase agreement with warranties, representations and conditions
- Inspection – Selecting a prepurchase facility, defining scope of work, standards and aircraft positioning
- Acceptance - remediation or renegotiation, deposit commitment
- Closing - Delivery, documentation, closing, administration and ownership
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