Steve Varsano pitches a 2005 Bombardier Global Express at $13.5 million to a buyer upgrading from a 1999 Learjet 35A. The company needs longer range and more cabin space for global operations, has a six-month timeline, and a $10-15 million budget. They want a US-based aircraft for easier inspection.
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I saw your advertisement for a Global Express.
Yes, sir.
It's your 2005.
What can I tell you?
How much are you wanting for it?
$13,500,000. Are you doing this for a customer?
No, we are currently— we have a small jet at the moment. We have a little Lear 35A.
Ah, wow.
For work. I've just been given the task with having a look for something, obviously, that goes a lot further. And this is something that my client, well, my boss, is really hunting for. So it's like he hasn't got the time, so I've been lumped with the task.
Wow, Lear 35. I mean, that airplane's got to be about 50 years old.
1999, I think it is. We had such success with that little one, that's why we're looking at the older Global Expresses to do the same thing, to then put our mark on it.
Are you going to keep that airplane, obviously for shorter trips, or, uh, so-called our local jet is that one, uh, that works very well.
But the business is growing quite large where we have to take some staff back and forth, and it's gone a bit more global. So that's why we're looking at a bigger jet.
What's your time period do you think you're going to be looking to buy?
Uh, it's going to be probably in the next 6 months. I'm getting the initial out there, search done, and getting to talk to people like yourself and just get the ball rolling really with what the market is looking like and price-wise, obviously.
And what's your budget?
It's around the ballpark between around the $10 to $15 million.
I have your phone number here. How do you say your family name, please? Okay, and your first name? Yeah, so you have my email. If you could just send that to me so I have all your details, and then I'll shoot that right back to you.
Perfect, I will send that over now.
And the airplane is US-based too? Just so you know.
That's exactly what we want. Yeah, we're looking for US-based. So it's actually— it's easy at the moment.
No, it's—
that's good. Okay, it needs to be US. Works very well because my boss wants to, then he can always shoot down and come see it as well.
Sure. Now that's easy to, uh, accomplish. Or if you just want to pay the, uh, direct operating cost, you know, maybe get it flown to you. But whatever works. Let's see if we get that far. That'll be great.
That'll be fantastic. Okay, well, thank you very much for your time.
Thank you. Take care. Yeah, that's a real inquiry. I mean, they have a That airplane I have is— I was only joking, 50 years, but that airplane's probably got to be about 30 years old. It's a tiny airplane. It holds about 6 people. One that is sort of a little smaller than inside a minivan, a Viano. It's one of those airplanes you get in, you can't stand up, there's no toilet, but it has a range basically of going about 5 hours. It's an airplane that was really, really one of the main popular jets early days, the Learjet Lear 35. It's a He's a real customer and there's probably a potential he is going to buy something before the end of the year. Just from that short phone call, it was easy to tell. What makes me believe he's real is that this was a principal's pilot calling from their office. He was very open answering the questions. He told me what his budget was. He told me the time period they're looking to buy. He told me what they were flying now. He told me what their typical long-range trips were and how they need an airplane to fulfill a new demand based on increased business use, and just all the questions just fit together. You just have a gut when they answer the questions the right way.
