"We have aircraft so small you might have trepidation getting into them and we do, in fact, have airline aircraft up there. The largest aircraft that we know for certain sold was a Gulfstream G5, which would be valued at about forty million dollars."
ASO.com founder and president Tony Friend and his partner Richard Cunningham knew little about aviation when they got the idea for the site. It makes money from listing fees...
"We're a matchmaking service. We put the buyers and the sellers together. So we charge a listing fee, but because it's such a valuable item, a reasonably low listing fee is nothing to somebody selling an aircraft of that asset value."
At the moment... the site has about 35 hundred aircraft posted. While it helps... you don't have to have millions to browse ...
"A lot of people come on just to dream. I did see one the other day for 19 thousand dollars. And I guess it flew. It must have had an air worthiness certificate."
Many of the listings of corporate aircraft include interior and exterior photos... fun to browse whether you can afford to buy or not. Bloomberg Boot Camp, I'm Fred Fishkin.