Appraisals · with Collateral Verifications

A value you can sign off on. A market view you can defend.

Aircraft and aviation asset appraisals in partnership with Collateral Verifications. Each one is carried out by Gueric Dechavanne, an ISTAT Certified Senior Appraiser, and conforms to USPAP. Pair it with the fleet, schedule and lease-rate data behind our research for the market around the number.

Request a proposal See the services

Photo: mos design / Unsplash

The partnership

Two firms. One view of value.

(Collateral Verifications signs the appraisal. Visual Approach supplies the market behind it.)

The appraisal

Collateral Verifications

An independent valuation firm whose certified appraisals and price guides cover transport aircraft and the assets around them, through the whole life cycle from manufacture to part-out.

  • Complete appraisals by an in-house ISTAT Certified Senior Appraiser
  • Every report conforms to the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP)
  • Its own airframe and engine overhaul cost data
  • The Turbine Aircraft Guide, a commercial aircraft price guidebook

The market

Visual Approach

Supplies the market context a value depends on: who flies the type, who is ordering its replacement, and where lease rates are heading.

  • Fleet, schedule, order and airline financial data
  • Aircraft Values and Lease Rates, published three times a year
  • The Special Aircraft Report in Aircraft Intelligence Monthly
  • Investor decks and expert witness work built around the value
See the research behind it

ISTAT

Certified Senior Appraiser

International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading

Gueric DechavanneManaging Partner, Collateral Verifications

The credential

Every appraisal carried out by an ISTAT Certified Senior Appraiser

Complete aircraft appraisals are carried out in-house by Gueric Dechavanne, who holds the senior designation of ISTAT’s appraiser certification program. ISTAT is the International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading, and its program is the benchmark lenders, lessors and investors look for in a transport aircraft valuation. Gueric has spent more than two decades putting values on commercial aircraft.

  • CIT Aerospace · tracking aircraft values and portfolio issues from 2001
  • OAGBACK Aviation Solutions · Manager of Valuation Services; maintained its Commercial Jet Aircraft Value Guide and Lease Rate Guide
  • Collateral Verifications · since 2008; develops the Turbine Aircraft Guide
  • Visual Approach · writes the monthly Special Aircraft Report in Aircraft Intelligence Monthly
Gueric’s full bio

Valuation services

From a quick number to a comprehensive report

Inside every CV reportUSPAP

Research, analysis and conclusion, documented

  1. The approach to valueValue concepts are compared, and CV advises which one fits your purpose.
  2. The marketEconomic and political trends, regulatory actions and everything else that moves the aviation market.
  3. The assetThe aircraft’s specification, maintenance status and records.
  4. The conclusionThe full facts and every limiting condition, stated in the report.
Collateral Verifications LLCISTAT Certified Senior Appraiser
01

Aircraft Valuation Spreadsheet

Values for a list of aircraft in a single sheet, for screening a fleet, a bid or a book quickly.

02

Aircraft Market Letter

A concise letter on current market conditions and value for a specific aircraft or type.

03

Desktop Aircraft Appraisal

A value based on the aircraft’s specification and current market data.

04

Extended Desktop Appraisal

A desktop appraisal adjusted for the aircraft’s actual maintenance status and records.

05

Full Appraisal

A complete appraisal report from CV’s ISTAT Certified Senior Appraiser, with the approach to value and the supporting analysis set out in full.

06

Comprehensive Appraisal

CV’s most detailed report: research, analysis and conclusion, with the methodology, facts and limiting conditions fully documented.

07

Portfolio Valuations

Consistent values across a lessor’s, lender’s or investor’s book of aircraft and engines.

08

USM and spare-part inventory appraisals

Used serviceable material and spare-part inventories, valued for financing, part-out or sale.

09

Turbine Aircraft Guide

CV’s commercial aircraft price guidebook, developed by Gueric Dechavanne.

Asset classes

Commercial first. Not commercial only.

(The same methods apply from the airframe to the tooling that maintains it)

01Commercial aircraft

Commercial aircraft and rotorcraft, plus the material inventories that keep them flying.

02Turbine engines

Commercial and military turbine engines, valued on their own or as part of a portfolio.

Also valued

  1. 03Business aircraft, rotorcraft and material inventories
  2. 04Military aircraft, rotorcraft and material inventories
  3. 05Equipment and machinery
  4. 06Test cell equipment and systems
  5. 07Aviation tooling, calibration and test equipment
  6. 08Ground support equipment

Photos: 鱼 鱼 / Unsplash

How an appraisal runs

(Scoped around what the value is for)

  1. The purpose

    Financing, acquisition, sale, audit or a dispute. What the value is for decides which report you need.

  2. The method

    CV compares value concepts and recommends the approach that best suits the purpose.

  3. The appraiser

    Gueric Dechavanne, ISTAT Certified Senior Appraiser, carries out the appraisal in-house at CV.

  4. The report

    A USPAP-conforming appraisal, with the methodology, facts and limiting conditions in plain sight.

Request a proposal

Tell us the asset, and what the value is for.

You’ll get a no-obligation proposal for your project. The work covers the whole aircraft life cycle, from manufacture to part-out and beyond.

Start a conversation Email Collateral Verifications

Or call Collateral Verifications directly: toll-free USA 1.888.800.0030 · outside USA +1 305.908.8695

You work directly with Courtney and Gueric.

Photo: Jason Sung / Unsplash