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Jetcraft Supports UNICEF’s Humanitarian Project, Helps Protect One Million Children a Year.

Every year, three million babies worldwide die in the first 28 days of life. The majority of neonatal deaths result from complications related to preterm birth and infection. Most of these fatalities are preventable with a vaccine administered to the mothers.

Jetcraft has partnered with L’VOYAGE, Sino Private Aviation (HK) Limited (SPAL), and UNICEF to raise funds to provide immunization services to mothers and children in need in developing countries. With only three protective doses, the mother and her future newborns are able to be protected for five years from Tetanus, which kills one newborn baby every nine minutes. Apart from vaccinating mothers, efforts will also be made to vaccinate infants against life-threatening disease.

This year, Jetcraft’s corporate support of UNICEF’s “28 Days to Save a Child’s Life” campaign will help prevent infectious disease and save the ...

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Dawn Kurry, Staff Writer - Triangle Business Journal

December 2013 - Despite this year’s disappointing outlook on business jet sales by the National Business Aviation Association in October, Charles “Bucky” Oliver, CEO of Raleigh’s Jetcraft, says corporate airplanes are still the best way to get your foot in the door.

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A conversation with Jetcraft CEO Chad Anderson

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Executive & VIP Aviation International , November 2013

In August, Jetcraft Corporation and ExecuJet Group announced that Jetcraft had acquired ExecuJet’s business aircraft sales division. The rationale for the deal was simple: it would benefit both organisations’ clients “by offering the largest selection of quality new and pre-owned business aircraft from around the globe”. In many ways ExecuJet disposing of its sales arm simply followed the trend of large FBO/aircraft management businesses deciding to focus on their core revenue generation activities and free up senior management time from the complexities of selling into a difficult environment. We have seen this theme before with TAG Aviation and others. Unlike ExecuJet, Jetcraft specialises solely in new and pre-owned sales and the deal now makes it the largest aircraft brokerage on the planet.

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On the eve of NBAA 2013, aircraft brokers here are expressing confidence that values of pre-owned aircraft have stabilized and pre-owned business aircraft transactions are on the upswing.

Jetcraft President, Chad Anderson, said “North America is back in action, which is a help for older aircraft.” Click here to read the full article.

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Chad Anderson, Jetcraft President, spoke about Jetcraft and our globalization efforts while at EBACE.

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Hong Kong, 27 August 2013 – L’VOYAGE, Sino Private Aviation (HK) Limited (SPAL) and partner Jetcraft Corporation (Jetcraft) announced a one-year charity project, effective 1 September 2013, to support the Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF HK)'s “28 Days to Save a Child’s Life” fundraising campaign (the Campaign). The charity project aims to raise over HK$1 million (US$136,800) to support the Campaign, in order to provide more than 2.2 million doses of vaccine to save children from Tetanus, one of the most deadly preventable diseases.

“We are honored to be one of the contributors to UNICEF HK’s ‘28 Days to Save a Child’s Life’ campaign. Being socially-responsible companies, L’VOYAGE and SPAL are committed to supporting this project.  We aim to donate 5,688 doses of tetanus vaccines per charter flight and 32,500 doses per aircraft sold. We hope that our contribution will encourage our industry peers to also join hands with UNICEF HK," explained Diana Chou, ...

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Absorption by Jetcraft, effective immediately, creates world’s largest business aircraft brokerage company

RALEIGH, NC, Aug. 8, 2013 – Jetcraft Corporation, an international leader in new and pre-owned business aircraft sales, acquisitions and trades, today announced the acquisition of the aircraft brokerage activities of ExecuJet Aircraft Trading (EAT), the business aircraft sales division of ExecuJet Aviation Group, of Zurich, Switzerland.

The coming together of two of the industry’s best sales teams will immediately benefit Jetcraft and ExecuJet clients by offering the largest selection of quality new and pre-owned business aircraft from around the globe. The newly combined Jetcraft sales force includes 20 senior sales executives, and another 20 sales, technical and marketing support staff, located in offices worldwide. Chad Anderson will remain President of Jetcraft and Andrew Hoy, formerly Managing Director, EAT, will oversee sales in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ...

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World Aircraft Sales, May 2013

by Sanjay Rampal

Interviews with key aviation companies help us understand the challenges facing Business Aviation in emerging markets. Here, David Dixon, Jetcraft Asia President and Mike Cappuccitti, Jetcraft Middle East Sales Director offer their views about the current state of their markets.

As a diversified player in an increasingly competitive global market, Jetcraft has never strayed from its core Business Aviation interests. Alluding to the company’s successful business model, Jetcraft Asia president and over 40-year aerospace veteran David Dixon explained “Our key approach is to get closer to the market with people in the field who understand the local requirements. This is why we have offices in Switzerland, Moscow, the Middle East, Hong Kong and soon a presence in Africa and Latin America.”

AN INTERNATIONAL FOOTPRINT

Buoyed by the prospects of international growth, Dixon believes that Asia is a hotspot ...

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JET Asia-Pacific, Spring 2013 - Industry Insider

Interview by Anthony Lam

Could you briefly introduce Jetcraft’s history and your role in the company?

Jetcraft was founded 51 years ago by my partner, Bucky Oliver. He’s based in Raleigh, North Carolina. At that time he was a pilot, and he was passionate about aviation. He was from a big family in property development, and his friends who wanted to buy aircraft would ask him for advice on what to buy, so that led to him starting Jetcraft as an aviation brokerage firm. Then he set up a maintenance center, and even became the Cessna distributor in North Carolina at one time.

When I joined Jetcraft in June 2008, I had been the head of marketing at Bombardier before that. I got to know Jetcraft from my days at Bombardier as we were selling them aircraft. When I left, Bucky approached me and asked me to run his company. I said I didn’t want to run it, but I would be interested in buying it. S...

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