Preston Holland is the Chief Commercial Officer of FLYING Finance, which is an aircraft financing company. Before taking over the finance business, Preston ran FLYING Media Group (now known as Firecrown) as Chief Operating Officer.  We discuss: When folks should consider flying privately  Costs of owning a plane Chartering, jet cards, and fractional ownership A walkthrough of how to purchase an aircraft We'd appreciate you filling out our audience survey, so we can continuously work on providing relevant content to our listeners.  https://www.thefortpod.com/survey Links Preston on X Preston's Newsletter Topics (00:00:00) - Intro (00:05:33) - Preston’s career (00:18:44) - When to consider flying private (00:21:20) - Chartering (00:36:20) - Costs of plane ownership (00:48:40) - Dry leases (00:54:21) - Jet card memberships (00:59:52) - Fractional ownership (01:03:45) - Pilots (01:06:06) - Partnerships (01:07:50) - The process of buying an aircraft (01:23:02) - Tax implications (01:33:58) - How to know ownership is the right path  Support our Sponsors Oshman Aviation: https://bit.ly/3Qr9STF Better Pitch: https://bit.ly/42d9L0I Fort Capital: https://bit.ly/FortCapital Follow Fort Capital on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/fort-capital/ Chris on Social Media: X: https://bit.ly/3BYIjcH LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/45gIkFd   Watch The Fort on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3oynxNX Visit our website: https://bit.ly/43SOvys Leave a review on Apple: https://bit.ly/45crFD0 Leave a review on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3Krl9jO  The FORT is produced by Johnny Podcasts