Dubai Aerospace Enterprise has released that DAE Capital, aircraft lessor and financier, has acquired 94 aircraft in 2022 (owned: 46; managed: 48) and sold 33 aircraft (owned: 10; managed: 23). Furthermore, the company signed 143 lease agreements, extensions and amendments in 2022 (owned: 121; managed: 22).
At the end of 2022 the company´s fleet size of owned, managed, committed and mandated-to-manage was about 500 aircraft. DAE Capital had 118 customers in 59 countries at the end of 2022 and an owned fleet with an average age of 6.5 years.
Highlights of 2022 was the announced and completed acquisition of SKY Fund I, Irish Ltd in the fourth quarter and the signing of a new aircraft management mandate to acquire and manage up to US$1.75 billion of aircraft assets. (£1.48 billion)
