Airborne Capital

Airborne Capital is an aviation investment manager with offices in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Japan and the United States. It manages third-party capital invested in aircraft.

The company acts as a bridge between two groups. One group is investors who want custom aviation investments. The other is airlines and lessors that need different kinds of capital. The team works with investors across the risk and return range. These include hedge and credit funds, private equity, insurance firms and family offices.

Its services cover aircraft origination, structuring, remarketing and sale, and lease management. It also sources investment opportunities to match what each investor needs. Its work ranges from single aircraft purchases to securitising aircraft portfolios in the U.S. capital markets.

The company says about 70 percent of the assets it bought over the past decade came from bilateral or limited auction deals. Each year it looks at hundreds of aircraft. It picks fewer than 5 percent for its investors.

It uses its own airline credit risk scoring model. The model combines financial, operational and credit measures. Checks on each asset include technical analysis, maintenance and legal review, and physical inspections. The company says its platform uses AI to add speed and accuracy.

Airborne Capital also handles repossessions and the later sale or remarketing of aircraft when needed. Its team has experience sourcing, managing and remarketing aircraft across the whole investment life.

The website explains why it sees aircraft as an attractive asset class. It points to strong air travel demand, limited aircraft supply and the Airbus and Boeing supply duopoly. It also notes low links to other asset classes. Recent news covers an open-ended aircraft fund called MACH OE, which had its first closing and first aircraft deliveries in 2026. The company has separate team pages for Airborne and for Daiwa-Airborne, plus a sales and remarketing page.

Services

• Aircraft origination
• Aircraft structuring
• Remarketing and sale
• Lease management
• Investment sourcing
• Portfolio securitisation
• Repossession
• Asset management