Asset Management – Fleet Watch

Choosing mba Fleet Watch offers a comprehensive suite of asset management services tailored to meet individual client needs. Fleet Watch provides cost-effective solutions with low monthly fees, ensuring efficient utilization and maintenance status monitoring, invoice generation, and investor reporting. The service includes a digital asset database (RAM) with technical records, regular AD compliance reviews, and major modification evaluations. Clients benefit from access to a wide range of ad hoc services such as asset valuations, forecasting, technical representation, and remarketing. With global technical coverage and extensive lessee interfacing. Asset management services are managed from our Washington DC Headquarters and London office.

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Asset Management: As you need it, when you need it. 

Fleet Watch gives our clients a customizable full-service asset management platform.

Acquisition Advisory

  • Cashflow Forecast
  • Credit Risk Analysis
  • Asset Pricing Support
  • Lease Review
  • Technical Due Diligence
  • Negotiation & Execution
  • Support Throughout Transaction

Remarketing

  • Asset Remarketing & Trading of Managed Assets
  • Third-party Asset Sales on a Contract Basis

Technical Services

  • Physical Inspection
  • Technical Records Review
  • Repossession Logistics
  • Returns & Deliveries
  • Insurance Coverage while on Ground

Lease Management

  • Account Management
  • Day-to-day Lease Monitoring
  • Portfolio Management

Ongoing Oversight

To maintain asset value, and to ensure lease requirements pertaining to aircraft maintenance are being fulfilled consistently, mba provides periodic on-lease inspection of aircraft, including collection and transfer of updated technical records. On-lease asset inspection is performed as prescribed in each aircraft lease agreement. Where possible, inspection activity is scheduled to take place in conjunction with planned aircraft maintenance. mba maintains a dedicated team of qualified aircraft inspectors globally to provide efficient access to each Operator’s maintenance facility.

mba Aviation – Technical Bases

Infrastructure

Asset Management is a multi-disciplined endeavor, encompassing elements from mba’s core range of services: Asset Management, Technical, Asset Valuation, and Financial Modeling.  mba is uniquely positioned to offer expertise in each of these disciplines through a well-integrated organization consisting of experienced technical managers, technical representatives and financial modeling analysts.

Lease Considerations

For both new and novated leases, mba conducts a systematic evaluation of the aircraft lease to determine adequacy of protection, and projected cash flow for the aircraft lessor.  Specialist groups within the Company coordinate the examination and analysis of lease documents to include the following aspects:

  • Aircraft maintenance and operational requirements
  • End of lease redelivery requirements
  • End of lease financial adjustments
  • Protection mechanisms in the event of default
  • Cash flow modeling over the lease term in conjunction with asset residual value projection

Account Management

mba fosters a cooperative and professional relationship with key technical and accounting personnel within each airline in order to facilitate the efficient exchange of data relating to asset utilization, maintenance oversight, calculation of basic and supplemental rent.  A sophisticated asset management platform is employed to manage the lease particulars of each aircraft under management.