The Advisory Team

Principals With Sovereign Experience.

Every client works directly with a principal advisor. There are no junior associates sitting between you and the expert guiding your programme.

The Advisory Team

Principals With Sovereign Experience.

Every client works directly with a principal advisor. There are no junior associates, no account managers, and no handoffs. The expert who guides your programme is the expert who leads every call, attends every milestone, and signs every report.

Captain Ivan Klugman — Principal Advisor, Aviation Asset Advisors

Capt. Ivan Klugman

Principal Advisor

Capt. Klugman brings 35 years of wide-body airline operations to every advisory engagement. He has led acquisition mandates for Boeing BBJ, Airbus ACJ, and widebody VIP platforms on behalf of sovereign clients, royal households, and corporate operators worldwide, and has personally supervised completion programmes at major centres across the United States and Europe. His operational depth translates directly into commercial leverage for clients navigating technically complex sovereign transactions.

Retired Airline Captain Commercial ATP 35 Yrs Wide-Body Ops Sovereign Acquisitions Completion Oversight Head of State Aircraft BBJ & ACJ Advisory Royal Family Mandates
Michael Bonventre — Senior Technical Advisor and FAA DAR-T, Aviation Asset Advisors

Michael Bonventre

Senior Technical Advisor & FAA DAR-T

Michael Bonventre holds a federal appointment as an FAA Designated Airworthiness Representative (DAR-T), enabling Aviation Asset Advisors to issue FAA airworthiness certificates directly for cross-border sovereign aircraft transactions. His 37-year career spans military and civilian platforms across rotary and fixed-wing operations. He is a credentialed Senior Appraiser through the National Aircraft Appraisers Association with full USPAP endorsement — providing the appraisal authority that sovereign fleet management and financing transactions require.

FAA DAR-T Appointee A&P Mechanic Licence NAAA Senior Appraiser USPAP Certified Cross-Border Transactions Military & Civil Aviation Airworthiness Certificates Aircraft Valuation

Advisory Network

The Advisory Network.

Our principals provide advisory services across six specialist domains — each operating as an independent, conflict-free advisory practice.

Integral Aviation Solutions

BBJ and ACJ consultants. Sovereign acquisitions, VIP completions, design engineering, FAA compliance, asset management, and ferry operations. inavsol.com ↗

Aviation Asset Advisors

VIP completion consultants and aircraft buyers agents for BBJ, ACJ, and Head of State aircraft. aviationassetadvisors.com ↗

Private Jet Consultants

Independent private jet consultants for Gulfstream, Bombardier, and Cessna Citation acquisitions. privatejetconsultants.com ↗

VIP Aircraft Interiors

VIP completion consultants and buyers agents for BBJ and ACJ programmes worldwide. vipaircraftinteriors.com ↗

Aircraft Completion Oversight

Independent aircraft completion consultants and VIP buyers agents for sovereign and corporate programmes. aircraftcompletionoversight.com ↗

Capt. Ivan Klugman

Personal advisory profile — 35 years of VIP aviation expertise, gourmet food photography, and sovereign aircraft advisory. ivanklugman.com ↗

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