We focus on the legal needs of the aviation community: aircraft owners, fractional share owners, lessors, lessees, lenders, charter operators, fixed-base operators, as well as aviation maintenance and repair organizations. Our areas of practice include:
Generally, an FAA registered, internationally operated aircraft may not be legally registered in the name of a corporation that does not qualify as a citizen of the USA. However, the Federal Aviation Regulations allow for two methods by which non-USA citizens can enjoy the benefits of owning an aircraft registered with the FAA: the voting trust and the ownership trust.
Depending on where your aircraft is delivered and/or based, an aircraft owner could be liable to pay sales tax, use tax, and/or property tax. Sales, use, and property tax exposure can be legally mitigated with appropriate planning and/or commercial operations.
Aviation Legal Group’s civil litigation teams are at home in federal and state courtrooms while recognizing the benefit of imaginative, cost-effective resolution techniques in the early stages of a lawsuit, where appropriate.
Aviation Legal Group has experience with both domestic and international financing and loan securitization issues. Regardless of where you are based as a borrower or lender, our attorneys can assist you with your aviation financing requirements.
At Aviation Legal Group, we have the expertise and experience to simplify issues that seem complex, to streamline your acquisition, sale, or lease transaction, and to negotiate favorable contract terms, whether for new aircraft, preowned aircraft, cross-border transactions or domestic transactions.
Aviation Legal Group has teamed with Jaffa & Co. to navigate all legal issues concerning acquisition, sale, ownership, and operation of yachts. We advise our clients concerning registries and legal documentation to ensure the yacht may cruise how and where the owner intends while protecting the asset.
Dedicated to aviation law since 1997.
Tel: +1 (954) 763 5565
Email: info@aviationlegalgroup.com
Address: 888 S Andrews Ave #303
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316
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