Ownership and operating a airplane window replacement company
September 01, 2024
by an intermediary from University of Nevada - Las Vegas in Henderson, NV, USA
I am looking for someone that would be interested in helping with running and owning a stake in a company that has a contract for replacing windows on airplanes. If you are interested then message me for more details?
from Columbia University in Santa Fe, NM, USA
1/How many platforms do they do this for today? Is it mandated by time or nice to have?
2/How many active planes are out there to do replacing on and if drivers are hours, fleet hours and registrations within 2-3 flight hours of the facility
3/Any secret sauce on the replacement? Ie tooling, STC, sourcing parts, etc? CSF designation from OEM req?
4/You probably need A&Ps to do the work, how hard is it to source them in the area ?
5/Who else does this? Is it crowded or slim, fragmented or oligopolistic?
6/GM and BOM - where is the margin? What is the value delivered?
7/what are ancillary services you can add? How do they realize they need to replace a window?
8/where do their clients come from? Adverts? A&P? Google? WOM? Owner?
Aviation is not for the faint hearted. It typically attracts passionate aviation enthusiasts over ETA types. That being said it’s a rich industry in need of help and there are a lot of opportunities to add value.
The “hot” area these days seems to be taking a page from the Martin Skreli playbook - buy key products with STCs and jack up the prices. See Transdigm, HEICO, Arcline, and Loar group. Note: because these guys tend to avoid labor-heavy MRO-type businesses, this view has (unfairly) carried over to the typical search fund investor (not all, but many).
from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA, USA