Jetrader - November/December 2008 - (Page 3)

Jetrader is a bi-monthly publication of The International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading (ISTAT). ISTAT was founded in 1983 to act as a forum and to promote improved communications among those involved in aviation and supporting industries, who operate, manufacture, maintain, sell, purchase, finance, lease, appraise, insure or otherwise engage in activities related to transport category aircraft. Jetrader Published for: International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading 401 N. Michigan Ave. Suite 2400 Chicago, IL 60611 USA Tel: 312.321.5169 Fax: 312.673.6579 www.ISTAT.org E-mail: istat@istat.org ISTAT BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS Michael Platt President Thomas W. Heimsoth Immediate Past President John W. Vitale Vice President Gregory A. May Vice President Treasurer Connie Laudenschlager Vice President Secretary DIRECTORS Fred E. Bearden Anthony Diaz Sigthor Einarsson Jay W. Hancock Peter Huijbers Will Hudson Joseph W. Ozimek Marc Allinson Daniel J. Pietrzak Mark Pearman-Wright Stephen T. Rimmer Jep Thornton ISTAT INTERNATIONAL APPRAISERS’ PROGRAM BOARD OF GOVERNORS Fred E. Bearden - Chairman Appraiser Fellow Fred J.Klein - Chairman-Elect Senior Appraiser Steve Boecker - Douglas Emerson Albert A. Nigro - Jeffrey Tenen Tony Whitty - Robert F. Agnew Senior Appraiser William Bath Appraiser Fellow/Administrative Director/ ISTAT International Appraisers Program ISTAT FOUNDATION Stephen T. Rimmer Chairman Michael Platt ISTAT President Thomas W. Heimsoth ISTAT Past President Robert Brown Vice Chairman Gregory A. May Secretary Treasurer TRUSTEES Jon Batchelor Klaus Heinemann Dana Lockhart James Morris Roland H. Moore, Esq. Chris Partridge Nick Popovich David P. Sutton David Treitel Warren Willits INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT TRADING Ron Pietrzak Executive Director Ben Barclay Project Coordinator Dana Henninger Member Services Tracy Schorle Marketing and Communication Services from the president Michael Platt, President International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading For those of you who were not able to join the 425 of us who gathered in Prague for ISTAT’s 15th European Conference, you missed a great conference in a great city. Sure, nobody was thrilled to watch the world’s stock market’s plunge, watch banks get taken over by other banks or governments or watch those banks that remained standing tell their customers that they were closed for further business for the time being, but as veteran aviation ﬁnance professionals, we have learned to make the best out of dire circumstances and enjoy a drink together under any circumstances. Mark Pearman Wright and Tony Diaz, working closely with our Executive Director Ron Pietrzak and the terriﬁc ISTAT staff did an outstanding job for the second year in a row putting together a conference with an impressive and informative group of speakers and memorable receptions. Special thanks to Philip Lobkowicz of Babcock & Brown for allowing more than 400 of us into your beautiful family palace for our gala dinner. I know you will enjoy the conference photos printed in this issue. Although the books have not been closed on the Prague conference, our cochairs Joe Ozimek from Boeing and Sigthor Einarsson from Icelandair (supported by many other board members) have already made signiﬁcant headway on the program for our 26th Annual U.S. Conference, which will take place in Scottsdale, Ariz., on March 15-17, 2009. This year’s ISTAT award winner will be Robert Crandall, and many top industry professionals have already committed to speak to our membership. Your board of directors is aware of the difﬁcult times many of our members are facing and therefore I ask you now, while you are planning your 2009 budgets, to make sure that if you are cutting back on your conference attendance in 2009, that you make sure to include ISTAT in your 2009 plans. The ISTAT March conference has become the most important conference of the year, with close to double the attendance of any other aviation conference. In one location you can meet with hundreds of industry colleagues, customers, vendors and other professionals on whom your business depends. If you have attended any of our recent conferences, you already know the value of the ISTAT conferences, which continue to be the least expensive conferences available thanks to the generous sponsorships provided by many of you. ISTAT is relevant in good times and bad. We always need the support of our friends, customers and suppliers. We also always have an obligation to continue to support our aviation students and institutions through the ISTAT Foundation. Your board is working diligently to make sure that ISTAT continues to fulﬁll its obligation to continue providing the best educational, networking and philanthropic organization in our industry. Jetrader 3 http://www.ISTAT.org

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Jertrader - November/December 2008 A Message from the President Contents Calendar/News Q%2BA: Richard Anderson Building a Strong Foundation Post Prague Aircraft Appraisals From the ISTAT Foundation Aviation History

Jetrader - November/December 2008

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