Strategic Planning
Planning your Lift Solutions
is our Business
Whether a first-time aircraft owner, corporate fleet operator with decades of experience, or fractional owner contemplating a change, you can mitigate risk in the decision-making process by leveraging the industry’s leading provider of strategic aviation consulting services.
Strategic Planning:
NEW
AIRCRAFT
PRE-OWNED
AIRCRAFT
FRACTIONAL
SHARES
CARDS
& CHARTER
We identify, inspect, audit and verify each aircraft to ensure you’ve found your ideal aviation solution.
NEW
AIRCRAFT
PRE-OWNED
AIRCRAFT
FRACTIONAL
SHARES
CARDS
& CHARTER
We identify, inspect, audit and verify each aircraft to ensure you’ve found your ideal aviation solution.
A Team with Vision
We have a team of veterans who have influenced over $10 Billion in aircraft transactions. Let our seasoned negotiators add real economic value to your next aircraft transaction.
We Think About Business Aircraft Differently
From navigating transactions to managing your aircraft portfolio, Mente Group is an all-in-one solutions team with your success in mind.
Fleet Plans
Fleet Plans consider the ever-changing corporate travel requirements driven by evolving business markets. Board-level presentations detail financial, operational, market, tax and other issues to grow, reorganize, consolidate or downsize corporate flight departments.
Feasibility Studies
Feasibility Studies compare various aircraft types to determine which best suits the travel profile of the company or private individual. From aircraft comparisons to cash flow analysis, put the power of a feasibility study to your advantage before making an aircraft acquisition.
Break-Even Analyses
Break-Even Analyses provide an answer to the question of: “At what point should I transition from fractional to full ownership?”
Residual Value Forecasting
Residual Value Forecasting is the most important component of accurately projecting the net present value of aviation asset projects. It’s been said that you never know how much an aircraft actually costs until you buy it, operate it and SELL it. Mente Group developed Proprietary Models to help predict more accurate residual values.
Budget Development
Budget Development leverages Mente Group’s database of accurate and up-to-date operating costs to produce budgets you can count on.
WHAT WE DO
With You at
Every Step
Today’s private aircraft owners, operators and users must make informed, time-sensitive, and financially significant decisions about the aviation solutions that best meet their needs.
Available Inventory
2014 Gulfstream G280
PILOTS:
BAGGAGE:
120 Cu. Ft.SEATING:
9RANGE:
3,600 NMCOST:
$13.995M
2,543 Hours | 1603 Cycles
2007 Challenger 300 – 20146
PILOTS:
BAGGAGE:
105 Cu. Ft.SEATING:
9RANGE:
3,567 Mi.COST:
Make Offer
4,811 Hours | 2,273 Cycles
2013 Gulfstream G280 – 2024
PILOTS:
BAGGAGE:
120 Cu. Ft.SEATING:
9RANGE:
3,600nmCOST:
$13.995M
2,398 Hours | 1,556 Cycles
TESTIMONIALS
Mente Group is an industry leading company that provides an aircraft valuation program that is essential for flight departments to know and understand the fair market value of their aircraft. This program allows for customization of depreciation curves, aircraft detail and comparisons, valuation of the optional equipment installed, and updating the current flight times to have the most complete fair market value of your aircraft on a monthly basis. Mente Group also has a licensed Aircraft Appraiser on staff to provide annual aircraft appraisals for property tax valuations. We have saved significant sums of money on property taxes every year. Finally, Mente Group provides outstanding brokerage services and analysis of the flight department needs in terms of aircraft and personnel required based on company’s travel requirements.
-Manager of Aircraft Maintenance – Fortune 500 company
It was not just the very professional way that Mente Group handled the disposition of our current aircraft and the acquisition of the new aircraft that sets them apart. They provided us with an extraordinarily detailed analysis that helped clarify our decision. They also provided completion insight that I don’t believe anyone else in the industry has resident in their firm. Finally, they helped our treasury department mitigate a tax issue on our existing airplane with the assistance of their asset advisory team. I simply don’t know of any other firm that has the breadth of knowledge that Mente Group has.
-Vice President of Flight Operations
It has been great working with Mente Group. As always, they expertly handled the relationship piece and kept us in the loop so we could keep our principal informed and calm. I assumed from the beginning that Mente would be a good fit, primarily because I personally know most of the team quite well. That confidence was validated every step of the way.
-Retired Aviation Industry Executive
I would highly recommend Mente group in both the sales and acquisition of an aircraft. They took the time to clearly understand my needs, provide competitive information, assist in the negotiation process, and complete both a sales and acquisition process. Their follow up and communication was exceptional throughout the process and second to none. There is only one place I would turn for help in my next acquisition.
-CEO
I meant it when I said what a pleasure it was to work with professionals for a change. It was refreshing to deal with calm, rational people who worked towards mutually beneficial solutions.
-Vice President – Aviation Lender
I wanted to thank you for the terrific job Mente did helping us acquire our new G450. This being our first aircraft we had no clue where to start or how to avoid the pitfalls in the marketplace. Mente took us by the hand and led us through the process with tremendous patience. For us, Mente’s most valuable asset is your ability to read and react to market conditions quickly to provide strategic guidance. We got much more airplane than we dreamed possible by listening to your counsel.
Thanks again for a great experience!
– Director of Marketing and Public Relations