RidgeAire Worldwide Aviation

RidgeAire Worldwide Aviation is a family and veteran owned aircraft sales, acquisition and brokerage company at Cherokee County Airport in Rusk, Texas (428 CR 1618, Hangar #1), with a mailing address at PO Box 361, Jacksonville, Texas. It was founded in 1967 by Bud and Fran Ridgley and is now run by their son Brian. The website's motto is "people are more important than airplanes" and the company says it has been buying and selling aircraft since 1967, handling the process from aircraft identification to pre-buy inspection and closing.

Services

• Aircraft sales from its own inventory, with weekly inventory updates by email
• Aircraft acquisitions: locating the right aircraft for a buyer's requirements
• Broker services: marketing a client's aircraft and managing the sales process
• Bank services
• Aircraft appraisals
• Lease inventory: aircraft available to lease

Inventory

At the time of writing the inventory on the site included Cessna 340A, T310P, 182M, 421 and 208B Grand Caravan EX, Beechcraft Baron 58TC and 95-55, A36 Turbine Bonanza, King Air 200, C90, C90A and C90GT, Conquest I and II, Piper Turbo Aztec, Cherokee 140, Comanche 400, Seneca I and M350, Citation II, Learjet 31A, Phenom 100 and an American Legend Cub, with status labels such as ready and available, leased, coming soon or for sale or trade. The site invites buyers to schedule an appointment online and offers weekly inventory updates by email.

Cirrus

The inventory lists a 2001 Cirrus SR22, N317DE, as available to lease. This is the only Cirrus aircraft on the site at the time of writing; RidgeAire is a general aircraft dealer rather than a Cirrus focused one, but it does handle SR22 aircraft within its sales and lease inventory.

Contact

Mailing: PO Box 361, Jacksonville, TX 75766. Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm Central Time.
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