If you fly less than 100–150 hours a year, owning an aircraft almost always costs more than it seems: crew, hangar, insurance and scheduled maintenance do not care whether you fly. Management solves this in two ways: it takes the operation off your hands — and, if you want, puts the aircraft to work.
Crew, maintenance, flight planning, records and insurance — through a partner operator. You fly, the rest is our job. A monthly report: what was spent, on what and why.
The aircraft joins a partner operator's certificate and works while you are not flying: charter, contract operations. In global practice this covers 50–80% of an owner's fixed costs. We run your numbers honestly — sometimes not chartering is the better answer, and we say so.
Mi-8: buy or sell →Basing, airworthiness, crew, insurance — without commercial charter. For owners who want order in the operation, not income from the aircraft.
Every expense is visible to the owner: invoices, work orders, labour hours. Supplier discounts are passed to you, not absorbed into a margin.
Hours flown, costs, charter load, technical condition — in one document. "Where does the money go" is answered with a table, not a conversation.
We earn when the aircraft flies and when you decide to change it. So residual value is not an abstraction to us: an aircraft worn out by charter hurts you and us alike.
Send the aircraft type, where it is based and your annual flying hours — we will come back with the numbers for your case.
See also: Aircraft management — explained · For companies and operators · Purchase financing
