Ownership and operating a airplane window replacement company

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by an intermediary from University of Nevada - Las Vegas
in Henderson, NV, USA

1yr ago

Ownership and operating a airplane window replacement company

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?

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reply by a searcher 1yr ago
from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA, USA

^redacted‌ Thanks for the tag. ^redacted‌ I'll send you a DM. I've been a pilot for 5 years now.

reply by a searcher 1yr ago
from Columbia University in Santa Fe, NM, USA

For these businesses, you’d want to understand:

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).