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GA Telesis Announces the Delivery of Second B737-800SF Freighter Conversion to Compass Cargo Airlines, Bulgaria

August 10, 2021 – Fort Lauderdale, Florida – GA Telesis, LLC (“GAT”) announces the delivery of its second B737-800SF (MSN 28826) passenger-to-freighter (“P2F”) conversion to Compass Cargo Airlines, Bulgaria. The aircraft was delivered from Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. (“AEI”) authorized Conversion Center, Commercial Jet, in Miami. This follows the delivery of the first B737-800SF freighter to Ethiopian Airlines in March 2021. GA Telesis’ Leasing, Investment, Financing & Trading (“LIFT”) Group has achieved great success since announcing… Read more

Green-Time Engine Leasing by Eddo Weijer

What I love about our industry and GA Telesis is that they are global and dynamic! What I dislike is its cyclical nature. In Q1 of 2020, I was feeling perhaps, that cycles were a thing of the past and that our industry was headed towards new perpetual growth horizons. Then, when you least expect it, a pandemic caused global aviation traffic to decline 65.9%. However, change is the law of life, and change offers… Read more

GA Telesis Announces an Agreement for the Acquisition of a Fleet of 777-300ER Aircraft

March 2, 2021 – Fort Lauderdale, Florida – GA Telesis has signed an agreement to acquire a fleet of 777-300ER aircraft powered by GE90-115B engines with an undisclosed seller. With the world’s leading aviation ecosystem and given the relative size of the acquisition, GA Telesis’ plan for this fleet will encompass a broad strategy of aircraft leasing, engine leasing, as well as airframe and engine part-out. According to Marc Cho, President of the LIFT (Leasing,… Read more

The Value of Lean by Ben Macre

To ensure our customers’ success, GA Telesis strives to offer the best value in engine and airframe component repair across our ecosystem. One of the strategies we use in the MRO Services division is the implementation of Lean practices. The American Society for Quality (ASQ) defines Lean as a set of management practices to improve efficiency and effectiveness by eliminating waste. The core principle of Lean is to reduce and eliminate non-value-added activities and waste.… Read more

Aircraft Finance in a Post-Covid World – What Does the Future Hold for Aircraft Leasing & Finance? / by Marc Cho

After several years of substantial and often aggressive capital entering the aircraft finance and leasing market, many wonder what the aircraft finance market will look like in a post-Covid world? The bond market for new aircraft Asset-Backed Securitization (ABS) deals is closed for 2020, and many agree it will be closed for 2021. To gain some perspective for the size of the vacuum that will create: there have been over 40 commercial aircraft ABS transactions… Read more

GA Telesis Appoints Eric Dollman, Vice President of Leveraged Finance Group

November 15, 2018– Fort Lauderdale, Florida – GA Telesis, LLC (“GAT”) announces the appointment of Eric Dollman as Vice President of its Leveraged Finance Group. Eric Dollman brings nearly 20 years of experience in the transportation finance and leasing sector to GAT. Dollman joins GA Telesis from Amur Capital Management, where he led the fixed and rotary-wing aircraft business for over four years. His previous positions include American Express Co., where he led the global… Read more

GA Telesis and Tokyo Century Corporation Launch $1 Billion New Technology Engine Leasing Initiative

August 1, 2017 – Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA and Tokyo, Japan – GA Telesis and Tokyo Century Corporation announced today the launch of a new technology engine financing initiative focusing on a select group of new technology jet engines. GA Telesis has been an industry leading engine lessor since its inception in 2002 and has consummated well over 1,000 engine transactions. The new joint initiative will enhance GA Telesis’ current technology engine leasing business by… Read more