ALG Transportation

ALG Transportation is an aviation leasing and financing company with an office at 4420 Madison Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The company's website calls it Aviation Leasing Group, a diversified aviation enterprise that operates worldwide. The site says it works in aircraft leasing, airline operations, finance and investment, airline training, airline support and technical services.

The company leases aircraft to airlines and operators on long-term contracts. The site says it structures and finances aircraft deals in creative ways. It gives one example in which the company delivered two A300-B4 aircraft to a Caribbean passenger carrier, and another in which it bought several MD-11 aircraft with a short-term lease back to meet an operator's cash flow needs.

The company also provides management, marketing and operational services for aircraft owners and lenders on a fee basis. It offers crew training and contract maintenance for airlines, and it has helped set up airline operations in South America, the Caribbean, Africa and parts of the former Soviet Union.

The site tells the story of founder Farhad Azima. It says he began in the 1970s by moving cattle by air from the United States to Iran. After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the site says he moved into cargo and passenger charter flights. In the 1980s he founded ALG Transportation, which leased aircraft to airlines on long-term contracts.

The site says the company's privately owned fleet has included over 60 aircraft from Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, Airbus, Bombardier, Raytheon and Textron. It also says that during its growth in the 1980s and 1990s the company held 100 to 240 aircraft across the UK, Spain, Egypt, Jordan and Africa.

Contact details are on the site's contact page. The office phone number is 816-931-7300.