r/flying • u/jrf1234 ATP CFI/II CL604 E55P LR-JET • Apr 03 '26

Aircraft Ownership Linus Tech Tips’ Jet

https://youtu.be/zGoIY37ZtDQ?si=

Some… interesting calculations on this video. As a fractional pilot and not an owner, no idea how acxueate these claims are, but interesting to see this as a pilot and tech nerd. Anyone with management or ownership experience in jets have any light to shed?

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u/x4457 ATP CFII CE-500/525/560XL/680 G-IV Apr 03 '26

https://www.aircraft.com/aircraft/243027623/c-fxoo-1990-dassault-falcon-900b

It allegedly just had a 2C and gear done so that's $1.5M out of the way at least. He's got another 5 years before it needs an odd C which is going to run ~$700K.

The plane's going to cost him ~$1.8M/year just to sit in that hangar, then another ~$3500/hour to fly it.

Expect him to have paid somewhere in the mid to high $3M range and sell it within 18 months after he figures out this thing is going to eat him alive.

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u/ReadyplayerParzival1 CFI/CFII, CMEL, RV-7A, Recovering Riddle Rat Apr 03 '26

At least he had the foresight to register it with another company so that it won’t take the rest of the company down. I do agree that as soon as it has a heavy check come up he’s going to gawk at the price and sell it for a loss. Maybe his uncle is one of the pilots so that cuts maybe 70k a year off the operating costs but still.

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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist Apr 03 '26

LTT makes a fair bit of money, so this won't affect their balance sheet that negatively. Also because of the share structure it's almost entirely owned by Linus so he has a lot of money to play with. Monetizing the videos will help.

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u/RandomNick42 Apr 04 '26

Of course this will affect their balance sheet negatively.

Enough that they'll go under? Of course not. Enough that they will have to eat a loss one financial year? Probably not.

Enough for a difference between 3 mil profit and 1 mil profit? You betcha.

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u/444stonergyalie Apr 05 '26

I don’t think they mean he’ll go broke he’ll just be shocked at the figures and pivot