Aircraft have proved to be a profitable asset class for investors and investment funds. But the watchword always has to be one of caution. The imperative is to buy the right aircraft at the right price and at the right time. And to do exactly the same when you sell it.

To do so successfully requires constant monitoring of the aircraft market and equipment value trends. It requires being aware of what the main supply and demand inputs are at any one time and being able to integrate them into longer term and cyclical patterns.

A lifetime of experience
Our in-house research team - backed by our senior staff who have had a lifetime of watching the aircraft industry’s upturns and downturns - identify the components needed to successfully build aircraft portfolios for investors.

The factors under consideration are broad, reflecting the complexity of this marketplace - the avoidance of concentration, the awareness of the risks sometimes posed by leases and cross-collateralized structures, the knowledge and understanding of the impact of cyclical market conditions on the aircraft leasing industry, and the expertise needed in developing innovative legal and financing structures.

Individually tailored
Aircraft investment services that are structured by Novus Aviation for financial institutions and investment companies are designed individually to the investor’s needs and risk profile. Novus, through its commercially-related financial arm Muzun Partner Ltd, also acts as co-sponsor in many aircraft investments.

Types of investment services include:
Structuring aircraft leasing and financial products for equity investors (including aircraft origination, sourcing, negotiation, conclusion, management, remarketing and more)
Transactions packaging
Single (ad hoc) and multiple transactions
Aircraft investment funds
Conventional and Shari’a-compliant aircraft lease finance structures
Tailor-made and turnkey solutions for aircraft sourcing and remarketing

Novus Aviation has successfully, originated, structured, launched and managed various aircraft leasing investment products for leading financial institutions.

Novus Aviation acts as aircraft portfolio managers for the following aircraft funds:

	Muzun International Aviation Fund - 1997 Aircraft investment company established in 1997 - company initially capitalized at US$43.9 million with an aircraft portfolio comprising B767, B777 and MD83 aircraft.
	Millennium Aircraft Leasing Company - 2002 Novus Aviation originated, structured, launched and was appointed co-manager of, Millennium Aircraft Leasing Company (MALC), an investment fund having equity of US$177 million with a portfolio of modern Airbus and Boeing, single and twin-aisle aircraft. Many Gulf-based institutional investors subscribe to the fund.
	Dubai Islamic Bank - 2005 Novus Aviation originated, structured, completed and acts as manager of an aircraft leasing transaction involving the sale and lease back of two B767-300ER with Condor Flugdienst.
	Al Salam Bank - 2007 ASB has one aircraft leasing transaction investment involving one B777-200ER. It is capitalized at around US$33 million and has total assets of about US$90 million.
	United International Bank (Bahrain)/Falak Investments-2007 Novus Aviation, originated, structured, completed and acts as aircraft and lease manager of Falak Investments Ltd, a Shari’a compliant aircraft leasing investment vehicle, with an asset value in excess of US$200 million.
	Ithmaar Bank - 2008 Novus Aviation, originated, structured, completed and acts as aircraft and lease manager of Ithmaar fund which comprises three aircraft leasing transaction investments involving three B737-300QC.

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