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What is happening in FBO acquisitions, airport authority moves, and buyer activity. Written for owners who want to understand the market before a buyer explains it to them.
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Two Deals in 48 Hours: Castle and Cooke and National Jets
Signature Aviation and Ocean Aviation both closed this week. Two different buyers. The same underlying logic.
The buyers are active. Find out what your FBO looks like to them.
Read →We Will Never Forget
Remembering the 2,977 lives lost across three sites on September 11, 2001.
Every one of them a hero. Every one of them remembered.
Read →Five Airports. Five Takeovers. The Municipal FBO Pattern.
Jackson Hole. McKinney. Arlington. Richmond. Waukegan. The pattern is more widespread than most FBO owners realize.
Know your lease term. Know your renewal conditions. Know where you stand.
Read →The Most Active Private Aviation Markets Are Running Out of Room
Supply constrained. Demand growing. What the geographic expansion of major metros means for FBO owners.
This is not speculation. It is supply and demand.
Read →Apollo and KKR Put a Nearly $10 Billion Valuation on Atlantic Aviation
What two of the world's largest investment firms said about why they chose an FBO network.
Irreplicable. That is the word they used. It is exactly what you have built.
Read →Velocity in San Antonio. Infinity at Trenton-Mercer. Two More This Week.
Two platforms. Two markets. The same strategy: find the right airport, acquire it, and build around it.
Is your airport on someone's list? Find out before they tell you.
Read →The Value of Optionality
What a competitive process creates that a one-on-one transaction cannot. And what it does to the psychology of buyers in it.
One buyer eliminates your options. A process protects them.
Read →Nobody Sells a Van Gogh to the First Person Who Walks Through the Door
You put it in a room full of people who understand what they are looking at and let them compete. Your FBO is the Van Gogh.
That is when the market sets the price. That is what your FBO deserves.
Read →The Buyer Who Wants Your FBO Does Not Want Anyone Else to Know
That is not speculation. That is the acquisition strategy. What professional buyers do before they ever call you.
The buyers are moving before you know they are coming.
Read →You Have a Fuel Report. Do You Know How a Buyer Values It?
When a buyer looks at your fuel report, they are not looking at one number. They are looking at four.
Can you tell a buyer where your fuel came from?
Read →250 Years of Building Something From Nothing
That spirit did not stop in 1776. It shows up every day in the FBO owner who turned a fuel stop into a full-service operation.
Builders deserve to know what they built is worth.
Read →One Buyer Does Not Set the Market. One Buyer Sets Their Price.
The gap between an unsolicited offer and what a competitive process produces is not a rounding error.
Buyers cannot build what you built. They can only acquire it.
Read →Runway Length Is Not Just an Operational Spec. It Is a Ceiling on Demand.
A G700 needs roughly 6,000 feet of runway. If you are sitting on 4,500 feet, that aircraft goes somewhere else.
Know your runway. Know your ceiling. Know your buyer.
Read →There Is a Version of Monopoly Being Played Across U.S. Aviation Right Now
The board only has so many spaces. Every acquisition this year is the same move.
You might be sitting on one of the last open spaces near a growing metroplex.
Read →Bain Capital Did Not Enter the FBO Sector Because They Needed Somewhere to Put Money
They entered because they found an asset class where supply genuinely cannot grow.
Buyers are paying for what the market will not let them build.
Read →The BBJ Does Not Land on a Short Runway. Neither Does the Buyer Who Pays Full Value.
Every year without a lease extension is a year subtracted from enterprise value. You just do not feel it until a buyer's LOI comes in low.
Extend your lease before you need to. Not because a buyer made it a condition of closing.
Read →Another Independent FBO Just Sold in Florida. Here Is What Is Worth Paying Attention To.
Vero Beach. A two-location operator building toward something larger. And in Texas, a vertical stack just completed.
The question is not whether someone wants your FBO. The question is who finds out first.
Read →Ready to understand what this market means for your FBO?
Frank Romano sets aside time each week for conversations like this. No pitch. No obligation. Just a straight look at where your business stands and what the buyers who are active right now would say about it.
This content is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial, legal, or valuation advice. No specific transaction outcome is implied or guaranteed.