05/07/2026
Well here goes nothing! ✈️
After watching the market for a while, I decided to take a shot on distressed aviation assets and picked up a 2013 Airbus A320 out of the Spirit auction.
Before everyone says I’m crazy… hear me out.
When industries get shaky, people panic-sell assets. That’s usually where the opportunity is. Same thing happens in real estate, cars, businesses, everything. Everybody laughs at the deal until someone else makes money on it.
The thought process was actually simple:
buy low, reposition the asset, explore international demand, and potentially flip it overseas to a carrier in Malaysia or another emerging market.
There may genuinely be a lane here.
I already started researching:
* repainting costs
* hangar storage
* international resale values
* crew requirements
* fuel contracts
…and then somewhere around hour two I realized I may have slightly underestimated the operational expenses of owning a commercial aircraft.
For example:
* filling the fuel tank requires the GDP of a small country
* the parking situation makes Manhattan look affordable
* and I found out the hard way you can’t just throw a pilot an extra $100 and say “bro can you fly this to Malaysia for me?”
So after careful consideration, I’ve decided real estate investing is still slightly less stressful than owning a 90,000-pound Groupon deal with wings.
