01 Welcome
Investing in our skies & people.
Black Sky Bravo is an operator-led aviation investment company acquiring mission-critical, low-mid market businesses with momentum + defensible moats, and overlooked potential.
We believe the companies that keep our skies running, the ones that train our pilots, maintain our fleets, and connect our communities, deserve partners who understand what they've built and respect what it took to build it.
The only aviation investment platform run by people who've actually run aviation companies.
02 About
We're not financiers; we’re founders deploying capital.
We acquire lower-middle-market businesses in aviation. $10M to $30M in value. Operator-to-operator.
Operator DNA
Deep work on airframes, certificates, and client books, not just spreadsheets. Quiet, relationship-driven access to opportunities that are rarely public.
Our Positions
LBOs and majority positions in lower middle-market aviation businesses: MROs, brokerage, training, special mission, compliance tech, or parts manufacturing.
Legacy Forward
Founders ready to transition or recapitalize without losing what they built. If it flies quietly and performs, we want to chat.
Operators at every altitude.
We've sat in the cockpit, managed the hangars, and navigated the FSDOs. Generalist capital can't replicate our passion or experience as operators.
This means that we know what it’s like to be in the owner’s seat — navigating endless diligence requests before seeing a real offer. We're changing that!
A simple offer in 14 days. Close in as little as 60 days.
03 The Opportunity
The 2025 to 2030 window is open.
It won’t wait.
Aviation's lower middle market is in the middle of a generational reset as it’s hitting a capital dead zone at the same time. The dynamics are structural, not speculative, and they have an expiration date.
In the U.S. alone, 10,000 baby boomers (largest gen of aviation business owners) turn age 65, everyday through 2030. Valuations sit 20 to 40% below peak. An 18-month FAA certificate backlog creates arbitrage. Too regulated and operationally complex for regional banks to underwrite. Pilot shortages are driving training demand through the roof. This is demography, not hype.
1) Capital vacuum; 2) Succession wave; 3) Regulatory surge; 4) Labor crisis. Four forces, one window with a closing date.
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10,000+/day
Baby boomers reaching retirement age through 2030
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20-40%
Valuation discounts vs. peak or large cap
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80K-600K
Projected pilot shortage through 2042
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25-35%
Target net IRR
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SPV-First
Initial deal access, prove thesis, then raise fund
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2.5-3.0x
Target net MOIC
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$10M to $30M
Overlooked EV sweet spot
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Dedicated PE competitors in our sectors
04 Partner With Us
Investors.
You've seen blind-pool aviation funds run by generalists who can't tell a Part 135 from a Part 145. That's not this. Our SPV-first model lets you evaluate each asset individually: full diligence, clear thesis, transparent economics. You see the asset, the plan, and the exit before committing a dollar.
Owners.
You built something that matters. A Part 145 shop. A flight school. A charter operation held together by your name on the certificate. Now succession is here, capital is tight, and FAA mandates keep stacking. We've managed fleets, passed audits, and held the yoke. Let's talk, operator to operator.
05 Field Notes
From the cockpit, not the corner office.
Analysis, intelligence, and operator-level perspective on the forces reshaping lower-middle-market aviation: succession dynamics, regulatory shifts, valuation dislocations, and the technology that separates scaled platforms from fragmented shops.
