A Cirrus SR22 photographed from above on the ramp

About Aerista

We sell aircraft. That is the whole business.We sell aircraft. That is the whole business.

No maintenance shop, no flight school, no FBO, no new-aircraft franchise. Nothing competing for our attention or yours.

World's Largest

Aircraft Broker

$1.75 Billion

in Transactions

320

Sales & Acquisitions in 2024

How this started

Chris Eichman and Steve Schwartz, co-founders

We sold new aircraft for Cirrus in the early 2000s. The people buying factory-new were looked after properly. The people buying a two-year-old example of the same aircraft, often the same buyer a few years earlier in their flying, were largely left to themselves.

In 2009 we left to fix that, and built the firm around a single discipline: representing buyers and sellers of aircraft, new and pre-owned, and nothing else. No maintenance shop, no flight school, no FBO. Nothing competing for our attention or yours.

Fifteen years on, that has meant $1.75 billion transacted and 320 sales and acquisitions in 2024 alone. We have been a Cirrus Pre-Owned Sales Partner since the beginning, and opened a turbine division in 2014 with specialists in the Vision Jet, PA-46 and PC-12 markets.

The business is still two founders who answer their own phones, and a team who fly the aircraft they sell.

Cirrus Pre-Owned Sales Partner since 2009

Cirrus Authorized Pre-Owned Sales Partner

What we hold to

How we work.

The client’s position first

We are paid to represent one side of a transaction properly. When the right advice is to walk away from an aircraft, that is the advice.

The relationship outlasts the aircraft

Most of our clients buy and sell more than once. That is only true if the first transaction was handled the way we said it would be.

Depth over breadth

We work in a small number of segments and we know them completely. There are aircraft we decline to represent because we do not know them well enough.

The team

People who fly what they sell.

Type ratings, thousands of hours, North Atlantic crossings, an around-the-world flight in a Vision Jet. Everyone here has owned, bought or delivered the aircraft they represent, which is why the advice is specific rather than general.