Private jets parked at Friedman Memorial airport at the Allen & Company Sun Valley conference on July 10, 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho.
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The new federal expenditure invoice should increase sales of private jets, as owners benefit from faster radiation from the purchase price.
The jet brokers and advisers said they had seen an explosion of customer activities that retained purchases until the bill is signed. Among its many new fiscal provisions, there is the reinstatement of “damping of bonuses”, which allows companies to immediately raft 100% of the purchase price of the equipment, including private jets.
Individuals, who generally have a jet via their private company or their portfolio company, can now harm the total cost of a new or used jet during the first year of ownership for any plane put into service or after January 19, 2025.
The tax advantage only applies to commercial jets, not to jets used for personal use. It revives a provision of tax cuts 2017 and replaces the current depreciation percentages of 60% in 2024 and 40% in 2025.
“We had a number of owners who were trying to upgrade and were waiting for it,” said Barry Shevlin, CEO of Flyusa, The Aviation Solutions Company. “And I have at least half a dozen others looking to buy after that.”
The fiscal stimulus comes just at the right time for the private jet industry, which has increased the growth of its feverish argument in 2020 and 2021. The industry saw an increase in new owners, charter leaflets and fractional owners after the covid, but many wealthy who bought plans, then for the first time, started to sell them or go to the most part expected work and pilot costs.
The number of second -hand sales jets for sale has increased at an average monthly rate of more than 1,800 in the first half, according to Jetnet. This increased by 1,744 in the first half of 2024. The average time on the market also increased, to 418 days against 386 days, the data firm said.
“During the covid, many people who bought planes did not know what they were doing,” said Shevlin. “They were shocked by what it cost and what it involved.”
Philip Rushton, founder and president of Aviatrade, said that there were now about 23 to 25 Gulfstream G650ers on the market, which is slightly higher than usual.
“It is certainly standardized after Covid,” he said.
The large rush towards the purchase of private jets may however not start before fall. The brokers said that purchases of private jets generally increase at the end of the year, when companies and individuals finalize their tax invoices.
Matt Walter, managing partner at Guardian Jet, said that ultra-riche will not decide to buy an airplane simply due to a tax variation. “But that certainly helps this decision,” he said. “If you had planned to upgrade your plane in 12 months, maybe you do it in six months instead.”
He said that he advised customers to buy before September but to sell after September, because demand will probably increase in the fall.
“You want to buy before it goes crazy,” he said. “After September, you will compete with other buyers and also compete with inspection slots. In a heated market, everyone will try to do the same thing and try to find inspection slots.”