Placing your private jet on a charter certificate sounds like a straightforward way to offset ownership costs. Your aircraft sits in a hangar when you’re not using it. Someone else pays to fly it. You collect revenue. The math seems obvious. The reality is more complicated. Aircraft ownership charter risks are real, varied, and rarely […]

At Holstein Aviation, we’ve guided clients through over 4,700 transactions across many decades. If there is one constant we’ve observed in aircraft ownership, it’s that an aircraft’s value isn’t just a reflection of its “ramp presence” or its speed—it is a reflection of its financial predictability through proper asset management. In the current 2026 “Sorting […]