A specialist financing brokerage for aircraft and marine assets — built inside the largest editorial ecosystem in aviation and on the water.
FLYING Finance is the financing arm of Firecrown — the publisher behind the most-read titles in aviation and marine. Our editors have flown the airplanes and stepped aboard the yachts our readers buy. Now we underwrite them.
For a hundred years, FLYING has been the magazine of record in general aviation. On the water, Firecrown's marine portfolio reaches the same audience your dealer sees at FLIBS and Palm Beach. The financing brokerage was built so the people we cover would have somewhere to go that already understood the asset.
We don't sell paper. We curate it. The brokerage thesis
A direct lender writes the deal that fits its book. A specialist brokerage writes the deal that fits the buyer. We hold relationships with banks, captives, family offices, and asset-backed funds across both sides of our business — and we shop the room, not the rolodex.
That matters when the asset is a Vision Jet on one hand and a 70-foot motor yacht on the other. The covenants, the survey work, the seasonal cash flows, the ownership entity — they all look different to a generalist lender. They look familiar to us, because we wrote about them last week.
The buyers we serve almost always have the cash. They choose financing because the cash is doing more elsewhere — and because a single specialist relationship across aircraft and marine is simpler than coordinating two generalist banks.
That's the brief: liquidity preserved on your side, specialist coverage on ours, one approver who sees the whole picture.
Whether your next acquisition lifts off or pulls away from the dock, the team that underwrites it has been there.
From the entry-level personal jet to the next step up the turboprop ladder, our aviation book is built around the airframes our editors know best.
From the flybridge to the catamaran market, we finance the boats the dock walkers actually buy — new build, brokerage, and refinance.
No exchange of redundant documents between teams that don't speak the same dialect. The same people who pre-approve you on Monday close you on the asset at the dock or on the ramp.
A short conversation, a tight document list, and a working credit envelope inside a few business days.
Specialist diligence on the airframe or the hull — the things a generalist lender doesn't know to look for.
We shop the right capital partner for the asset, the entity, and your liquidity profile.
One file. One approver. One decision. Funded in time for delivery.
These are recourse loans — global cash flow, liquidity, and credit profile are still central to every file. The difference is what gets added on the asset side: real diligence on the airframe or hull, by people who understand the type. Both lenses, every transaction.
Personal financial statement, two years of returns, liquidity and net-worth posture, ownership entity, and global debt service. Standard recourse underwriting — done quickly because the document request is scoped tightly to what the credit committee actually needs.
Logbook continuity, engine programs, AD compliance, training currency for the type, hangar and insurance posture. The questions a chief pilot would ask.
Marine survey and on-water trial — an independent surveyor inspects the hull, systems, and electronics, and we sea-trial under power. The same diligence a serious buyer would already insist on.
A small sample of the kind of work that runs through our team in any given month.
A pressurized high-performance single financed for a step-up owner — the kind of file that rewards a specialist's read on type, training, and insurance posture.
Brand-new aircraft delivery to an airline pilot and his family — financed in partnership with Tecnam Aircraft.
A high-performance certified single funded for a returning client — clean file, fast close, no friction.
A representative sample of recent Closed & Funded files. See the full archive →
Adjust the asset class, price, down payment, term, and indicative rate. Whatever you model here travels with you to pre-approval.
For modeling only. Final rates and structure are determined during pre-approval and underwriting.
A specialist brokerage. We hold relationships across a network of banks, captives, family offices, and asset-backed funds, and we structure each file to the asset and the buyer rather than to a single product line.
Yes — alongside light jets, turboprops, and the Vision Jet, our aviation book includes high-performance certified singles and twins as well as LSAs. If you fly it and it has a logbook, we likely have a path.
All of them. Sportfish, express, trawlers, motor yachts, and catamarans, in both new build and brokerage, plus refinance.
A short conversation, a tight document list, and personal financials. We work with you to make the document request appropriately scoped — and we don't run hard credit until we're aligned on structure.
Pre-approval is typically a few business days. Closing is timed to delivery — your acquisition team and our underwriting team work to the same schedule.
Yes — refinancing existing aircraft and marine debt is a common reason to begin a relationship. The diligence path is the same; the conversation is shorter.
Beyond the barriers. One file. One specialist. One decision.
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