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Look let’s be real, anything “offshore” today, be it a bank, aircraft or yacht registration and in most cases a corporation, means someone is hiding something from the tax man, assets or income, usually illegal tax evasion and not tax avoidance which is legal. The Isle of Man government approved tax avoidance schemes that have refunded more than $1bn to the super-rich and to multinationals on the import of hundreds of private jets into Europe. The Paradise Papers reveal how Manx customs worked closely with the offshore law firm Appleby and the big four accounting firm EY, to approve schemes which have ultimately helped some of the world’s wealthiest individuals reduce import VAT bills to zero. The arrangements allowed jet owners to claim 100% VAT refunds on the grounds that their jets were part of leasing businesses. What the leak of 6.8m files from the archives of Appleby reveal is that these businesses involved millionaires leasing their own aircraft from themselves, and some of that appears to be illegal for sure.

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  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomas-chlumecky-aviation-doctor-3200a021/     Paradise Papers: Commission follows up on illegal tax breaks for yachts and aircraft Brussels, 8 November 2018 http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-6265_en.htm   Abusive VAT practices in the Isle of Man. VAT is only deductible for business use. Supplies of aircraft, including leasing services, meant expressly for private use should not be VAT-exempt. The Commission … Continue reading →

SUMMARY: DAY #1 at Farnborough International Airshow – July 16, 2018

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Read my regular Articles and Posts on LinkednIN:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomas-chlumecky-3200a021/         July 16, 2018,  Airfinance Journal:        Day One of Farnborough 2018 belonged firmly to Boeing in terms of firm orders, although the US manufacturer saved up many of its largest announcements from deals done earlier in the year.   Airbus, meanwhile, … Continue reading →

Bombardier signs agreement with DAIR to spur innovation in Ontario’s aerospace sector, but referring to Bombardier’s innovation and aerospace is a self contradiction (oxymoron) given its massive reliance on developing its product line by stretching the 1970’s CL-600 Challenger (ALL CRJ’s and ALL Globals) or stretching the DHC-8-100 into the Q400, stretching an aircraft for decades is not innovation in my book.

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You can read more of my Articles and Posts on LinkedIN at:   https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomas-chlumecky-3200a021/  Bombardier signs agreement with DAIR to spur innovation in Ontario’s aerospace sector AviTrader-June 22, 2018     Tomas’s Comment: It’s interesting and good for aerospace education, but let’s be real, Bombardier is not a big innovator in aerospace, outside the miserably failed … Continue reading →

Surf Air the “all you can fly” operation owes $US 2.33 million to the IRS, and $US 3.1 million to previous operator of its PC-12’s, and its co-founders flopped with Beacon on the East Coast after less than a year, so is it a real business or just a quick buck as long as it lasts?

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You can read more of my Articles and Posts on LinkedIN at:         https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomas-chlumecky-3200a021/    Financially Distressed On-Demand Flight Service Provider Surf Air Defaults On Payments & Breaches Contract With Encompass Aviation Encompass, which operated Surf’s California flights, files lawsuit in NY’s Southern District Tomas’s Comment: This Surf Air  “all you can fly” … Continue reading →

Summary: The 1st half, 2017 General Aviation turboprop delivery figures are out, with 230 deliveries (down 1.3%), (261 engines, all PT6’s, except 10 x GE H80’s) total sales of $703.8M (-13%), and once again the Agricultural Market leads in deliveries with 86 deliveries worth $108.8M. BIG winners are Air Tractor (agricultural aircraft,) with deliveries up 47% to 69, Piper (M500/600) +138% to 19, and Daher (TBM 910/930) +28% to 23. The BIG loser is Textron Aviation, down by 28 aircraft (-34%) from 81 aircraft to 53 aircraft) with a reduction of deliveries by 10 x Caravans and 18 x King Airs versus 1H/2016, the reduction in deliveries is valued at $132.8M, what is going on with the Caravan and King Air sales ? Is there a demand drop ? if so why ? Another loser is Piaggio with NO delivery of its Avanti EVO in 2017 yet (only 1 in 2016) a “walking dead” program for a long time, while Pacific Aerospace is not far off as it has delivered just 1 PAC750 XStol in 2017 (3 in 2016) ? no sign of Big Chinese order ? no surprise, and how long can you keep going with such low production rates ? Meanwhile new competing turboprop products are coming from EPIC, Mahindra, Quest and Textron, only the strong will survive.

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The 1st Half 2017 GAMA numbers are out and I have looked at the turboprop deliveries and sales for these first 6 months of 2017 against the first six months of 2016. The 1st half 2017 deliveries are 230 vs 233 in 2016 (-1.3%) and total sales are $703.8 million down $105.8 million (-13%) on … Continue reading →

UPDATE: OMG ! Bombardier Inc. released its 1st Half 2017 Results, not good as expected. Total revenue $7.668B (down 6.7% on 1H/2016). BCA (Bombardier Commercial Aircraft), just 35 deliveries down from 47 in 1H/2016 (down 25.5%) and revenue down 14.4% on 1H/2016 with average discounting of 31% off list prices. Meanwhile, Q400 down to 31 orders in backlog (14 months of production), production down 21% (just 2.16 per month) on 2016, 13 deliveries and 13 orders, book to bill 1.0. CRJ line down to 47 orders in backlog (14 questionable CRJ-1000’s with just 54 deliveries in 7 years), production down 35% (just 2.5 per month) on 2016, 15 deliveries and just 10 new orders, so book to bill just 0.67. CSeries, NO new order in 2017, only 2 x CS300’s ordered in the past 15 months, yes an absolute sales & marketing ‘disaster’ from the “dream team”, but 7 were delivered (1.16 per month) yay ! whopee ! Only 65 business jet deliveries (down from 73 in 1H/2016) while revenue down 13.8% on 1H/2016. Now, all eyes are on US Commerce Department decision September 25th in regard to imposing countervailing duties on the CSeries of up to 79% for basically ‘illegal state aid’ to Bombardier by Ottawa and Quebec, and another 79% duty for anti-dumping, basically selling the CSeries a whole lot cheaper in the USA, to Delta Air Lines, then back at home to say Porter Airlines. An unfavorable ruling will shut the struggling CSeries program (320 orders in 9+ years, with +20% ‘questionable’ still) out of the all important US market, as if the program needed more problems ? Light at the end of the tunnel for BCA ? China, either Comac acquisition or lots of CSeries orders from there, or both, as orders in China for CSeries, Q400 and maybe CRJ will come easier if under Comac, its the only possible ‘white knight’ for struggling BCA, like it or not.

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READ: more on Bombardier or other topics by clicking categories on the right. Well today Bombardier Inc. released its 1st half 2017 results, and and its not good, as revenue is down 6.7% to $7.668B on 2016, this company is NOT going to be a $25.0B a year company in 2020 as planned in its … Continue reading →

SUMMARY: Textron Aviation culls its smallest Citation, the $3.35M CE-510 Mustang after 11 years and 472 deliveries. In 2016, Gulfstream dropped its smallest product, the $15.7M G150 (an improved G100, originally the IAI Astra SPx, never a big seller with just +120 deliveries in total) and the $43.1M Gulfstream G450 (ex-GIV) which will be replaced by the new $44.6M G500. The Very Light jet segment has struggled since 2009 when deliveries hit 236 to a low of just 62 in 2013 and 89 last year by 4 OEM’s. With The Mustang gone, the entry level jet for Textron is now the $4.5M CE-525 M2 to take on the $4.16M Embraer Phenom 100E and the $5.0M HondaJet HA-420, which is now in full production mode after years of certification delays, and a surprising 15 deliveries in 1st Quarter 2017, where deliveries by the top 3 OEM’s of Very Light jets was up to 28 from last years 9, a 211% increase on 1Q/2016, and a sign of new life for a struggling segment ?

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The latest news from Textron Aviation, that the company is terminating the smallest member of the Citation line, the $3.35M CE-510 Mustang (PHOTO below), which has had 472 deliveries by the end of 2016, since starting the line in 2006. The Very Light jet market ($3.0M to $5.5M aircraft) has been in decline from 2009 … Continue reading →

UPDATE: Bombardier Inc. ex-President & CEO, and as of today also ex-Executive Chairman, Pierre Beaudoin is out at least ! and so are 1st Quarter, 2017 financials. In the first 3 months of 2017, Bombardier’s revenue is down to $3.6B (-7.7% on 1Q/2016) continues its revenue slide (down $3.77B or -18.7% since 2014). Aircraft deliveries for 1Q/17 are down to just 44 aircraft (15 Commercial and 29 Business) , Q400 deliveries were 6 with just 26 orders in backlog (13 months), CRJ deliveries were 8 with just 54 orders in backlog (20 months), and only 1 CS300 delivered. Bombardier delivered 29 business jets, more skewed to light jets as the top end market is struggling these days, not good news for the new Global G7000. Meanwhile, only 2 x CS300’s orders in the past 11 months ? the program has a serious problem selling the aircraft, and two, selling above cost at some point is important, no ? Now, Boeing wants US Commerce Dept. to place a $13.4M “price dumping” tariff on the CSeries deal with Delta Air Lines and ban the aircraft from further US sales, meanwhile ATR and Embraer are complaining to the WTO of Canadian “illegal state aid” to Bombardier, criminal bribery investigation under way in Sweden and yet the top 5 executives wanted a 50% increase for an “Exceptional 2016” seriously ? One wonders what “planet” these executives live on ? and where is this “magical” 7,000 deliveries in 20 years in the 100 to 150 passenger market ? This CSeries program is still with just 320 orders (no 40 for Republic, just PR deferral till the end of time) after 9 years ? maybe they got the market positioning all wrong ? What happened to the “game changer” ? and the “dream team” ? that was suppose to sell lots of CSeries ? Those Top 5 executives need to go, 1 down 4 to go ? Lastly, Porter Airlines (Canada) placed a conditional order for 12 x CS100’s and 18 options in April, 2013, show the price offered to Porter and we will all know if they are “price dumping” in the US market or not, easy no ? Behind all the denials they know they are “price dumping” its sadly the only way they know how to sell the CSeries, yup all 340 orders below cost !

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READ more on Bombardier on this Blog, just click Bombardier under Categories on the right side of menu.   The 1st Quarter results are out for Bombardier, but the most important news is that Executive Chairman, Pierre Beaudoin is stepping down after numerous problems and Revenue declines. The man I refer to as the “Destroyer” … Continue reading →

SUMMARY: The 2016 General Aviation turboprop deliveries and sales numbers are out from GAMA, and the turboprops were the only segment to record an increase in deliveries (+3.4%), as piston (-4.9%) and especially business jets (-7.9%) are down on 2015 numbers. With 576 turboprop aircraft delivered (and 675 engines, all PT6’s except 10 GE H80 engines) with a sales value of $US 2.057 billion (+8.6%), 2016 was a good year for 3 of the 4 segments (Agricultural, Single engine utility, Single engine pressurized) with Twin turboprop deliveries slightly down (-9.1%). In terms of units, the best segment was the Single engine pressurized with 179 deliveries led by Pilatus with 91 deliveries of its PC-12NG, but new competition is coming soon from Textron’s Denali and EPIC 1000. By sales, the best segment was the Twin Turboprop market, which is dominated by Textron’s King Air (C90/250/350) line with $793 million in sales. While not in GAMA figures, the 5 OEM’s still in the 19 passenger turboprop market, delivered +/- 35 aircraft worth $US 255 million. Lastly, the Agricultural aircraft market is still doing well, with 151 deliveries worth $198 million from crop spraying, fire fighting to actual counter insurgency (COIN) fighting, showing how versatile the turboprops really are today and why we see GE now challenging the P&W PT6 domination of the market for over 50 years.

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READ: 2015 GA turboprop results, February 17, 2016 blog. https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomas-chlumecky-3200a021/recent-activity/ Another year has passed and time to do my annual turboprop review. The 2016 GAMA shipment and billing numbers were not good for the industry, with overall billings down from $US 24.1 billion in 2015 to $US 20.7 billion, down 14.1% while unit deliveries were … Continue reading →

SUMMARY: Lots of talk about Bombardier’s Turnaround, 14,500 layoff announcements this year, or 21,450 in the past 3 years. The Global G7000 flew for the first time and Bombardier expects big things from it to boost Bombardier’s bottom line along with the struggling CSeries, which today still has only 320 orders (NO 40 x CS300’s for Republic Airways, just PR not wanting to reduce the meager order book) and still +/- 86 “questionable” orders (representing 26% of the current 320 orders). Lots of effort in reducing labor costs, yet no one is noticing that the top line (revenue) at Aerospace is a coming disaster, and unsustainable with an old product line (1970’s Learjets and Canadair CL-600/Challenger 650, plus the Global G5000/6000) that is facing new and better competition. The CRJ line has no more than 48 orders in backlog, only 18 orders this year (50% from Canada) good for 12 months of production (February, 2018) with no new orders. The Q400 is down to around 34 orders in backlog and only 25 orders this year (50% also from Canada), good for 14 months (March, 2018) with no new orders. The 2020 Turnaround Plan calls for Aerospace to generate $15 billion in revenue (60% of total revenue planned of $25 billion), with just 2 products ? The Plan requires $5 billion from Commercial aircraft, which by 2020 means only the CSeries (CS100/CS300) is left, and that will require at least 140 deliveries at the current highly competitive low prices to hit the “target”, really ? (2020 production is planned at 90-120 aircraft today). Meanwhile, Business jets are to generate $10 billion by 2020, and that will fall on the $75 million Global G7000 (NO Learjets, Challenger 650 and Global G5000/6000’s by 2020) and that means 133+ G7000 deliveries to hit their “target” ? seriously ? has anyone looked at single aisle ACJ and BBJ sales for the past 15 years ? (+/- 15 a year at best). Canada is providing “state aid” (aka taxpayers money) to Bombardier again ($2.5 billion in 2016 from Quebec), in fact of the $3.39 billion of cash on hand as of Sept 30, 2016, $2.5 billion (71% of cash on hand) came from the Government of Quebec, soon another $1.0 billion will most likely come from Ottawa (PM is from Quebec, and they always “help” Bombardier), and then Quebec and Ottawa will be 66.7% owners of the CSeries program (CSALP – CSeries Aircraft Limited Partnership, a separate company, spun off from Bombardier ??). How did we the Canadian taxpayers become “owners” again of a commercial aircraft program that NO commercial aircraft OEM wanted in 2015 when it was for sale for “a song” ? Especially after we the Canadian taxpayers “SOLD” Bombardier, our government owned Canadair in 1986 (for $120 million) and government owned de Havilland in 1992 (for $100 million) with the rights to the Challenger business jet, later stretched into the CRJ line, and the DHC-8 turboprop airliner later stretched into the DHC-8-Q400 line. Meanwhile, Embraer is going to the WTO again to complain about Bombardier’s “illegal state aid”, while Boeing may go to President-elect Donald Trump and get import tariffs applied on the CSeries and then ? Oh, it is going to be an interesting 2017 for sure, stay tuned to the never ending Bombardier/Quebec/Ottawa “gong show”, as they find new ways to screw Canadian taxpayers to keep Bombardier alive at any cost.

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Bombardier has now delivered its first CS100 to Swiss and CS300 to airBaltic and talks confidently of a turnaround next year and a bright future in 2020 as per its 5 year Transformation Plan, that should see company become a $US 25 billion a year company by the end of 2020, with Aerospace to provide … Continue reading →

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