ISTAT is pleased to announce these new and returning members.

 

Congratulations to these ISTAT members on their new positions.

 

Applications are now open for the ISTAT University Online Program starting in October of 2016. The online program is available to qualified students from universities and colleges around the world by way of a distance learning, web-based course offering. Topics will include aircraft leasing, aircraft leasing, risk management, aviation legal framework, aircraft funding, maintenance reserves, lease negotiation and transaction modeling. To learn more, watch the video or visit www.istat.org/istatu.

 

The ISTAT Foundation Internship Program assists in the development of aviation-focused college students desiring to become productive members in the aircraft trading industry and generates qualified employment candidates for ISTAT member companies. To register your company on the ISTAT Foundation Internship Portal, please contact Warren Willits at wwillits@jetstarpartners.com.

 

The Ambassador Program initiative was created to streamline university outreach and provide cohesiveness among Foundation initiatives. Ambassadors are ISTAT members that build 'client' relationships with universities via phone calls, email correspondence and in-person visits. To learn more, please contact Kristen Chmielewski at chmielewski@assetfinancelegal.com.

 

By all accounts, 2015 was a blockbuster year for the capital markets financing aircraft deliveries. From almost a standing start five years ago, capital markets last year supported more than $40 billion of new commercial airplanes. And 2016 looks to be no different, according to Boeing's latest Current Aircraft Finance Market Outlook, which forecasts capital markets to fund around 38 percent of Boeing deliveries for the year.

 

 

 

CNN "Indians want to spend money. They're one of the world's biggest spenders today." That's the explanation Neerja Bhatia, vice president of India Etihad, offers for why India is now the world's fastest-growing aviation sector.

 

SWI The ascent of aviation is a technological triumph, the result of centuries of dreaming and decades of tinkering. Today, the Solar Impulse uses top technology to harness an elementary form of energy.

 

Manufacturing Business Technology Julia Greer, a scientist at Caltech, is developing nanotechnology that will change how large-scale things like airplanes to small-scale things like biomedical devices are made. (VIDEO)