FTAI Aviation Q1 2026 Earnings Report

FTAI Aviation EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $1.29
• Consensus EPS: $1.61
• Beat/Miss: Missed by -$0.32
• One Year Ago EPS: $0.87

FTAI Aviation Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $830.70 million
• Expected Revenue: N/A
• Beat/Miss: N/A
• YoY Revenue Growth: +65.40%

FTAI Aviation Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q1 2026
• Date: 4/29/2026
• Time: After Market Closes
• Conference Call Date: Thursday, April 30, 2026
• Conference Call Time: 8:00AM ET

FTAI Aviation (NASDAQ:FTAI) (NASDAQ: FTAI) is a commercial aircraft leasing company that acquires, manages and leases wide-body jet aircraft to airlines globally. The company’s portfolio is focused on modern, fuel-efficient Boeing models, including the 767, 777 and 787 families, which are deployed under long-term operating leases. By concentrating on in-demand wide-body assets, FTAI Aviation seeks to deliver stable cash flows through lease rentals and maintenance reserve collections while providing airlines with flexible fleet solutions.

In addition to lease origination, FTAI Aviation offers end-to-end asset management services. Its technical team oversees maintenance, repairs and return conditions, while a dedicated commercial group handles lease negotiations, remarketing and redelivery processes. The company also pursues sale-leaseback transactions that allow airlines to monetize owned aircraft and optimize balance sheet structures. Through proactive portfolio monitoring and diversified airline counterparties, FTAI Aviation aims to mitigate credit and residual value risks.

FTAI Aviation was established following a business combination that brought together aviation finance expertise and a targeted fleet of wide-body jets. Headquartered in the United States, the company maintains relationships with carriers across Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. Its senior management team comprises industry veterans with backgrounds in aircraft leasing, airline operations and structured finance, supporting a disciplined approach to fleet acquisition and capital deployment.

Looking ahead, FTAI Aviation continues to evaluate opportunities to expand its modern wide-body fleet and enhance shareholder value through accretive leases and portfolio optimization. By leveraging its technical capabilities and global airline network, the company remains positioned to support carriers’ long-term fleet strategies while navigating cyclical trends in air travel demand.

FTAI Aviation Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: Aerospace Products accelerated sharply — revenue grew 104% YoY and production ramped to 270 CFM56 modules this quarter (targeting 1,050 modules in 2026), driving adjusted EBITDA of $223M and ~30% margins as the company pushes for faster market-share gains.
• Positive Sentiment: Strategic Capital is transitioning from deployment to harvest: the 2025 SPV is largely invested (165 aircraft closed), the warehouse debt facility was upsized to $3.5B, distributions will begin as the vehicle moves to harvest, and a 2026 SPV first close is planned by end of Q2.
• Positive Sentiment: FTAI Power remains on track for a commercial launch in Q4 — prototype testing is ahead of schedule, a joint venture with JERA for packaging was signed, and management says demand is strong (expecting to be mostly sold out of 2027 production with multi-year LTSA-backed deals).
• Positive Sentiment: Financials and shareholder returns strengthened — consolidated adjusted EBITDA was $325.6M in Q1, management reaffirmed 2026 EBITDA guidance of $1.625B and ~ $915M adjusted free cash flow, upsized the revolver to $2.025B, and raised the quarterly dividend from $0.40 to $0.45.
• Negative Sentiment: Geopolitical and macro risks persist — management notes limited direct Middle East exposure (<3% of narrowbody fleet) but warns elevated fuel prices and regional conflict could create airline liquidity pressure and volatility, which may affect demand or timing of customer decisions.

Presentation

[Operator]

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the first quarter 2026 FTAI Aviation earnings conference call. I would like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, Alan Andreini, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

[Alan Andreini, Head of Investor Relations at FTAI Aviation]

Thank you, Marvin. I would like to welcome you all to the FTAI Aviation first quarter 2026 earnings call. Joining me here today are Joe Adams, our Chief Executive Officer, David Moreno, our President, Nicholas McAleese, our Chief Financial Officer, and Stacy Kuperus, our Chief Operating Officer. We have posted an investor presentation and our press release on our website, which we encourage you to download if you have not already done so. Also, please note that this call is open to the public in listen-only mode and is being webcast. In addition, we will be discussing some non-GAAP financial measures during the call today, including EBITDA. The reconciliation of those measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures can be found in the earnings supplement.

[Alan Andreini, Head of Investor Relations at FTAI Aviation]

Before I turn the call over to Joe, I would like to point out that certain statements made today will be forward-looking statements, including regarding future earnings. These statements, by their nature, are uncertain and may differ materially from actual results. We encourage you to review the disclaimers in our press release and investor presentation regarding non-GAAP financial measures and forward-looking statements, and to review the risk factors contained in our quarterly report filed with the SEC. Now I would like to turn the call over to Joe.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

Thank you, Alan. The first quarter was a solid start to the year for us, and we'd like to begin this morning by highlighting the key objectives for each of our businesses in 2026 and the progress we made during this first quarter. Across Aerospace Products, Strategic Capital, and FTAI Power, we are scaling platforms with strong structural demand in a disciplined manner and deploying capital to support growth where we see the most attractive long-term returns. I'll start with Aerospace Products. First, a top priority for us in 2026 is to focus on accelerating our market share growth. As our production capabilities, parts procurement strategies, and overall MRE customer adoption reach an inflection point, now is the time for us to take full advantage of our competitive moat and focus on market share growth.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

As a reminder, we're only five years into building our Aerospace Products business, and as the business continues to mature and grow, we have the opportunity to leverage our enhanced execution capabilities to take more market share more quickly from traditional engine maintenance shops. Second, as the market for the CFM56 and V2500 engines continues to mature, we've seen a notable increase in demand for leased engine solutions from top-tier airlines, even those with in-house engine MRO capabilities. We offer flexibility, customized pricing, and scale that no one else can fulfill, and these large programs are very sticky. It's a key priority for us in 2026 to win more of this business. Third is production. We've always talked about expanding production capacity well ahead of growth, as well as adding maintenance facilities in parts of the world where we see strong traction with our customer base.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

It's notable today that when you look at the map, we have no major maintenance facilities east of Rome, Italy. I'd expect this to look different when we are on next year's first quarter call. Turning to results, Aerospace Products results support the objective I just outlined with top-line revenue growth accelerating both year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter, up 104% year-over-year and 32% quarter-over-quarter, respectively. First quarter adjusted EBITDA of $223 million is an increase of 70% year-over-year and up 14% from $195 million in Q4 of 2025. EBITDA margins for the quarter of 30% are indicative of an increased mix of deals with large airline customers and a larger mix of full performance restoration shop visits.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

We expect this to be the trend line going forward as our capabilities have been built out, and we're able to bring volumes to the market that others simply cannot. Shifting now to Strategic Capital, where our top priority is completing the deployment of the 2025 SPV or special purpose vehicle. Our deployment pace for the first vehicle has been strong, and our engine maintenance-focused approach to adding value to aircraft ownership has been well received by the market. As we approach the end of the second quarter, the 2025 SPV will be fully invested, and we will shift from the deployment period to the harvest period where quarterly distribution will now begin. David will share more with you about the goals for adding value to the portfolio during this phase.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

As an active asset manager, we're always pursuing ways to enhance the returns above what is the contractual lease stream. Our second area of focus for Strategic Capital is the launch of the 2026 SPV. We continue to plan to have a first close at the end of the second quarter, and we'll start acquiring aircraft in the third quarter of this year. The investment strategy, 12 to 15-month deployment period, and size of the vehicle will be consistent with the 2025 SPV. Last, to support the build of the Strategic Capital business, we've added to the team and now have over 40 dedicated individuals focused on sourcing, underwriting, and servicing the portfolio across offices in Dublin, Dubai, Cardiff, and New York.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

The growth ambitions and differentiated strategy around engine maintenance has resonated in the market, and we've been able to attract great talent to supplement our existing team and scale the platform. Finally, the FTAI Power business continues to make strong progress towards its commercial launch in the fourth quarter of this year. This week, we signed an important joint venture agreement with the JERA Group for packaging and customer conversions that are in advanced stages, both of which David will share more details about shortly. Before I pass it over to David, I want to address the conflict in the Middle East that began at the end of February and the broader geopolitical environment our industry is navigating today. We are hopeful for a peaceful resolution and a return to more normal energy trading and prices, but we're also realistic about some of the challenges of today's environment.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

Beginning with Aerospace Products, our exposure to the Middle East is limited. Less than 3% of our global current gen narrow body fleet is based in the region, and we have very little customer exposure. More generally, we've not seen any meaningful change in shop visit demand to date. That said, elevated oil prices and fuel prices do negatively impact our customers' financial situation. While this can create some volatility, it's the exact environment where our FTAI value proposition becomes even more critical to the customer. When an airline is facing a multimillion-dollar engine shop visit in comparison to a faster, lower-cost engine exchange with FTAI, the decision is even easier to make when liquidity is top of mind. It's also worth remembering that airlines cannot meaningfully change their fleets in response to short-term volatility.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

New aircraft orders are locked in for the next four to five years, and the current generation aircraft will continue to be a vital part of the global fleet for many years. In short, market share gains in Aerospace Products are much more consequential to us compared to overall market growth. For Strategic Capital, periods of volatility create opportunities. When liquidity is tight, sale leaseback transactions help raise funds and avoid future shop visits. As the only lessor in the world that covers all engine maintenance for its aircraft portfolio, we are uniquely positioned to help airlines in this matter. Lastly, for FTAI Power, our business is largely insulated from the geopolitical dynamic today. The Mod-1, our product, runs predominantly on natural gas, and to the extent we see additional aviation retirements, it will just provide additional feedstock to grow our conversion efforts.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

I will now hand it over to David Moreno.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

Thanks, Joe. I will start by providing an update on Aerospace Products production. We refurbished 270 CFM56 module this quarter across our four facilities, an increase of 96% compared to Q1 2025. This is a good start to our 2026 production goal of 1,050 modules and continues to reflect the hard work of our fast-growing team. As Joe mentioned, we have built a strong Aerospace Products foundation over the last five years. We are ready to further accelerate our market share growth. From a commercial perspective, we are seeing customer engagements expand to larger, more programmatic partnership as airline adoption accelerates. This is driven by both the overall market tightness as well as FTAI's capabilities continuing to broaden to now include engine and module exchanges, engine leasing, and aircraft leasing.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

We can't emphasize enough the stickiness that's created as our relationships with airlines and asset owners expand. We become a solution provider that is integrated into the operational plans for the airline's future growth. Our close relationships with airline customers is something we are very proud of, and we believe this will continue to accelerate our market share in the years to come. Next, I'll share a further update on our Strategic Capital. To support the full deployment of the 2025 SPV, we upsized the vehicle's warehouse debt facility at the end of March, adding $1 billion of committed capacity. This facility is now $3.5 billion in size across 10 lenders, creating a strong roster of partners for our significant debt capital needs in the business going forward. As we mentioned last quarter, capital deployment for the 2025 is largely complete.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

We have closed 165 aircraft as of the end of Q1, and after we sign a few LOIs that are in process, all new future aircraft will go into the 2026 SPV. With the 2025 SPV transitioning from investment mode to harvest mode, we are very focused on maximizing the value of potential cash flows for our investors. We do this through active management of maintenance events, both airframe and engines, as well as through lease extensions. We continue to see strong desire from our airlines to fly current gen aircraft as long as possible, especially when they do not have to worry about engine shop visits.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

Our all-in-one solution of combining leasing and engine maintenance has resulted in many lease extensions, and we believe this will continue to be an important trend in the portfolio. On FTAI Power, I want to share updates on the timing of our commercial launch, our packaging integration, and progress with customers. We remain firmly on track to commercially launch the Mod-1 in the fourth quarter, and our prototype testing is actually running ahead of schedule. We have completed all the major mechanical testing milestones, including testing our redesigned Mod-1 fan stage at synchronous speed, and we expect to wrap up final testing in the third quarter. The results to date have exceeded our expectations. We have been also hosting customers on-site to observe the Mod-1 prototype directly, and that has become an important part of how we sell this product.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

Second, as Joe mentioned, we signed a joint venture agreement with JERA Group, one of the leading packagers for mobile gas turbines. This is a foundational step for the program as JERA will be our primary partner responsible for taking our turbine and combining it with the mobile package that includes the key components like the generator and gearbox. Through the joint venture, we will draw on JERA's manufacturing footprint across the United States, the UAE, Canada, and China, which gives us scale, geographic reach, and a clear path to global product rollout. The joint venture de-risks our supply chain, accelerates our speed to market, and aligns the incentives of both parties across the long-term success of the platform. Third, we are building a customer base committed to the long-term deployment of the Mod-1. The customer momentum we discussed last quarter has accelerated meaningfully.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

We are in deep and active negotiations with leader across the energy and digital infrastructure landscape, and every one of these deals is anchored by a long-term service agreement or LTSA on the turbine. One exciting element is that customers are coming to us with a range of commercial structures in mind, from outright purchase to lease, which speaks to the flexibility of our model and the strength of the underlying demand. The interest in lease structure in particular fits naturally with our Strategic Capital Initiative and gives us the ability to offer customers a sought-after leasing solution while preserving capital efficiency. Several of these conversations are framed around multi-year, multi-block deployment plans, which gives us visibility well beyond 2027. Last, what has resonated most with customers is the maintenance model.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

The ability to swap a turbine in place in just two days rather than taking the unit offline for an extended overhaul is a capability the power industry has not had access to before, and it translates directly into a lower levelized cost of energy or LCOE for the customer. Based on these conversations as they stand today, we expect to be mostly sold out of our 2027 target production in the near term, with a meaningful portion of 2028 spoken for. Before I hand it over to Nicholas, I want to take a moment to congratulate him on his promotion to CFO, as well as Mike Hazan on his promotion to CAO. Both Nicholas and Mike have been key contributors to our operational success. In their new leadership roles, they are positioned to have a large impact on our future success.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

With that, I'll now hand it over to Nicholas to talk through the first quarter numbers in more detail.

[Nicholas McAleese, CFO at FTAI Aviation]

Thanks, David. The key metric for us is adjusted EBITDA. We started 2026 with adjusted EBITDA of $325.6 million in Q1 of 2026, which represents a 17% increase compared to $277.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2025. The $325.6 million EBITDA number was comprised of $222.6 million from our Aerospace Products segment, $153 million from our Aviation Leasing segment, -$50 million from Corporate & Other, including inter-segment eliminations and start-up expenses associated with our power initiative. Aerospace Products delivered another good quarter, with $222.6 million of EBITDA and an overall EBITDA margin of 30%.

[Nicholas McAleese, CFO at FTAI Aviation]

This is up 14% sequentially from $195 million in Q4 of 2025 and up 70% year-over-year compared to $131 million in Q1 of 2025, reflecting continued momentum from production growth and operating leverage. Turning to Aviation Leasing. The segment continued to perform well, generating approximately $153 million of EBITDA in the first quarter. This included $45 million of insurance recoveries, $12 million in gains on sale, $25 million from 2025 SPV management fees and co-investment returns, and $71 million from leasing assets held on our balance sheet. For insurance recoveries, in addition to the $45 million recognized in the first quarter, we continue to expect approximately $5 million to be settled later this year, consistent with our previously communicated $50 million for 2026.

[Nicholas McAleese, CFO at FTAI Aviation]

When combined with the $65 million recovered during 2024 and 2025, this brings total recovery since the outbreak of the war in 2022 to approximately $115 million against the $88 million we wrote off in 2022. For gain on sales, we began the year with $127.5 million in asset sale proceeds, generating a 9% gain or $12.1 million as we closed the first nine of 14 aircraft expected to be sold to the 2025 SPV this year and divested several non-core assets during the quarter, including airframes and an RB211 engine.

[Nicholas McAleese, CFO at FTAI Aviation]

Overall, as we continue to launch new Strategic Capital vehicles on a programmatic basis, we expect the mix of leasing EBITDA to increasingly shift towards Strategic Capital-driven earnings as we further pivot away from balance sheet aircraft leasing and toward a more capital light, fee-driven asset management model. This shift in our business model is also driving continued improvement in our financial profile. We began the year at approximately 2.3x leverage on an annualized basis, now below our targeted range of 2.5x-3x agreed with our rating agencies, and meaningfully lower than the leverage levels approximately 5x in 2022 and 4x in both 2023 and 2024 before we pivoted to an asset-light strategy.

[Nicholas McAleese, CFO at FTAI Aviation]

In April, we also upsized our revolving credit facility from $400 million to $2.025 billion and extended the maturity of the facility through 2031 on improved pricing terms, providing FTAI with a long-term source of liquidity. The facility was significantly oversubscribed and is supported by a diverse syndicate of 15 lenders, including several institutions that also financed the debt facility of our 2025 SPV. As we continue to scale our asset management platform, this alignment across financing relationships enhances flexibility, lowers our cost of capital, and delivers tangible financial benefits to the public company. Finally, in the first quarter, we generated $158 million of adjusted free cash flow, reflecting several strategic investments made early in the year to position the business for further growth in 2026.

[Nicholas McAleese, CFO at FTAI Aviation]

These included approximately $75 million in prepayments under our multiyear CFM56 parts agreement with the OEM, approximately $81 million in induction prepayments for V2500 engines, where demand for full performance restoration remains strong, $19 million of incremental inventory for FTAI Power to build working capital in support of a targeted 100-unit production run in 2027. Excluding these growth investments, adjusted free cash flow for the quarter totaled approximately $333 million, reflecting the strong underlying cash generation capability of the business. With that, I'll hand it back over to Joe for final remarks.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

Thanks, Nicholas. I'd like to reiterate how encouraged we are by the start of 2026. Despite a dynamic geopolitical backdrop, demand across our customer base remains robust. Execution across our three platforms is extremely strong, and the strategic investments we're making today position FTAI well for continued growth in 2027 and beyond. While developments in the Middle East remain fluid and could present both challenges and opportunities, we continue to see strong underlying fundamentals across our business and a durable competitive advantage in all of our platforms. Consistent with that view, we reaffirm our 2026 total business segment EBITDA outlook of $1.625 billion, comprised of $1.05 billion from Aerospace Products and $575 million from Aviation Leasing, supported by growing and accelerating demand across our proprietary aerospace offerings.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

Based on this outlook, we also remain confident in our expectation to generate approximately $915 million of adjusted free cash flow in 2026, which reflects continued execution against our annual production plan of 1,050 CFM56 modules to meet customer demand while prioritizing excess cash flow for reinvestment in high-return growth initiatives, including M&A, minority investments in the 2026 SPV, and the continuing development of FTAI Power. As a result of this confidence for the third consecutive quarter in a row, we're announcing an increase to our dividend from $0.40 per quarter to $0.45 per share per quarter. The dividend will be paid on May 26 to shareholders of record as of May 13th. This marks our 44th dividend as a public company and 59th consecutive dividend since we started.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

As we look ahead to the rest of 2026, our focus remains on building a durable, scalable, and differentiated platform that delivers value over the long term. The investments we are making across Aerospace Products, Strategic Capital, and FTAI Power are designed to strengthen our competitive position, expand our addressable markets, and support sustainable growth for many years to come. I want to recognize the teams, the fabulous teams across our organization for their continued focus on execution and delivery in a demanding operating environment. I also want to thank our customers and partners for the trust they place in FTAI as we help them navigate capacity constraints and rising demand, and our shareholders for their ongoing support as we continue to scale our business. We are focused on executing against the opportunities in front of us and remain confident in FTAI's ability to deliver.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

With that, I will pass it back to Alan. Thank you.

[Alan Andreini, Head of Investor Relations at FTAI Aviation]

Thank you, Joe. Marvin, you may now open the call to Q&A.

[Operator]

Thank you. At this time, we'll conduct a question and answer session. As a reminder to ask a question, you will need to press star one one on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, please press star one one again. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. Our first question comes from the line of Sheila Kahyaoglu of Jefferies. Your line is now open.

[Sheila Kahyaoglu, Analyst at Jefferies]

Good morning, guys, and thank you. Nice quarter. I have two questions, if that's okay. First one is on Aerospace Products. You know, market share continues to climb higher up from 10%-12%, while the margin rate is healthy but has taken a step back. Can you maybe talk about some of the puts and takes, how much came from higher work scope versus the market share and new customers?

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

Yeah, I mean, we really don't have a specific breakout of the components. It's really a mix of things that go into it. As we mentioned previously, as the customers get bigger, the potential orders get bigger, the work scopes get bigger. We are, you know, consciously going for a higher market share and to drive, you know, faster growth in EBITDA in an absolute, you know, dollar amount. We think that moves the needle much more than anything else. Really the opportunity to take advantage of that, this scale that we have today and really capture as much of the market as possible is something that we've been working hard to get ourselves in position to be able to do for years, and we feel like we're there at this point.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

Yeah. This is David. To add to that, right? I think as Joe mentioned, the scale is intentional. It's obviously intentional on the Aerospace Products, but it's also intentional across, you know, the value it creates on the entire business, right? Our Strategic Capital and our FTAI Power business. When we look about and think about the value creation, there's no better, you know, lever than increasing market share for us as top priority.

[Sheila Kahyaoglu, Analyst at Jefferies]

Great. Maybe David, you mentioned much of the 2027, 2028 modules should be committed to in the near term. You know, can you give us some flavor of what your customer set looks like and the underlying assumptions in terms of volumes and packaging capability as you get into the 2028 timeframe?

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

We've made meaningful progress with customers. As I mentioned, we've had customers on site as well to, you know, look at the prototype, understand that. I think that's a very important piece of the sales process. To give you a little more color, the customers really consist of four types of customers. Number one, hyperscalers. Number two, data center operators. Number three, gas distributors. And number four, financial sponsors. There's a lot of activity from financial sponsors who are providing a lot of capital in this space. We feel very good about, you know, being, you know, where we're at, and we expect to be, as I mentioned, you know, in a short matter of time, sold out of 2027 volumes. The conversations we're having are beyond 2027.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

They're multi-year, multi-block conversations. You know, we're talking about, you know, conversations or orders, you know, into 2028 and beyond. I think that's a very important piece, is when we built this, we wanted to create a diverse group of customers, really with the intention of having them operate this base load for a long term. I think we've seen that and you know, we're very happy with the progress. You know, as I mentioned, I think we're kind of in the final steps here. We hope to, you know, update you guys shortly.

[Sheila Kahyaoglu, Analyst at Jefferies]

Got it. Sharing Aerospace Products and FTAI Power. Makes sense. Thank you.

[Operator]

Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Ken Herbert of RBC. Your line is now open.

[Ken Herbert, Analyst at RBC]

Yeah. Hi, good morning, Joe and David and Alan and Nicholas. Hey, maybe Joe or David, can you just talk a little bit more about the relationship with your JV partner, JERA Group, and maybe how that came about, why you picked them and the value uniquely they sort of bring to this FTAI Power opportunity?

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

Yeah, this is David, Ken, so I can take that. Yeah, we're very excited about our partnership with JERA Group. They're one of the largest oil and gas equipment manufacturers across the world. What they're gonna be doing with us is they're gonna basically handle everything except the turbine, right? What that means is the actual trailer, all the key components on the trailer, including the generator, the gearbox, and all the controls. That'll allow us to focus on the Mod-1, which is obviously our specialty around the turbine. You know, JERA, we selected JERA because of their scale in manufacturing. They have manufacturing facilities across the U.S., Canada, the UAE, and in China. That scale is obviously an important theme, and it's something that, you know, we're gonna continue to talk about.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

As well as they have a lot of experience with aeroderivative packaging. They package turbines for, let's say, folks like GE Vernova, Baker Hughes, Siemens, and that, you know, they can create a lot of value in everything but the turbine. I think it's a really good marriage between both companies, and we have shared incentives to continue to, you know, work and scale this business together.

[Ken Herbert, Analyst at RBC]

Does the work with JERA at all impact sort of your access to the post-sale economics when we think around maintenance and spare parts and other ways to sort of monetize, obviously the FTAI Power?

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

Yeah, I would say there's no real change to how we've talked about economics, right? The overall unit economics will remain roughly the same or in line, right? Obviously a part of this will come through a joint venture, the way that it will look on the face of the financials may be a little different, meaning revenue may be slightly lower, and then we'll have, you know, earnings, piece of this earnings through earnings in a joint venture. Overall, the unit economics remain the same. Obviously, as part of, you know, the JERA Group handling the packaging, that means for us, we'd have to invest less in working capital around the packaging piece of the equation, which is obviously a good part. Overall, they're best in class.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

They can package, you know, at scale and you know, they're vertically integrated, so they add a lot of value there. It does not have any impact on our overall margins.

[Ken Herbert, Analyst at RBC]

The LTSA?

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

Yeah. I think we talked about this on the call, but you know, we're obviously very focused on the long-term service agreement when we talk about economics to FTAI on the turbine. What that is effectively, you know, customers will pay for us to service the turbine. I would think of that as very similar type economics as our aerospace business, where effectively customers will pay us based on usage. Depending on usage, you know, every 3-6 years, turbines will have to get replaced. We're gonna be handling that through our exchange business, which we're very excited. What that means is effectively we can replace these turbines in two days or less.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

We're excited because the, you know, typically the lead times of doing maintenance on turbines is actually a bit longer than the aerospace business. We think that's gonna be a huge competitive advantage as well as a revenue stream, which we're very excited about.

[Ken Herbert, Analyst at RBC]

Thanks, David.

[Operator]

One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Kristine Liwag of Morgan Stanley. Your line is now open.

[Kristine Liwag, Analyst at Morgan Stanley]

Hi, good morning, everyone. You know, maybe David, you know, since you're talking about Power, I just wanna touch a bit more on some of the things you said. One, I just wanna clarify, when you said that you're mostly sold out for 2027, does this mean that, you know, these things are accounted for, and you're just waiting for ink to dry on the orders? That's the first question. Also the second question, can you provide more color in terms of how your interactions are with these hyperscalers? What's important to them? You know, when you talk about, you know, being able to service these engines, these turbines at a shorter period, is that a key differentiator? Are they valuing this? And ultimately, how competitive is your offering to what they're considering right now? Thanks.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

Yes. Yeah. We're in advanced negotiations. I'd say we're in kind of the final steps, and we expect, let's say, to be sold out imminently. That's the first question. As far as the second question, what differentiates, you know, our product and what's important for our customer, really it's three things, right? Number one is speed to power, right? Customers want units now, right? There's really a shortage of equipment out there. Our unit is mobile, and it can be installed in less than two weeks. That's a big value add. Very different than, let's say, an EPC or construction that takes, let's say, you know, can take up to 18 months. Number two is scale. Customers want scale.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

I think now, you know, between our ability on the turbines as well as JERA's ability on the packaging, we have really scale that no one has today. Number three is really reliability of the product, which includes obviously the reliability of the turbine. It's the CFM56. It's the most durable engine ever produced. As well as the maintenance or the servicing of it, which is a huge advantage, right? Ultimately, if you can service a unit in two days versus six months, that ultimately means you need less units, and it's lower operating costs for a customer. All that's very important, and I think they're very excited about the Mod-1.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

Again, we've really been thoughtful about building the customer base, not just thinking about 2027, but thinking about the longevity of this platform.

[Kristine Liwag, Analyst at Morgan Stanley]

Super helpful, David. You know, you guys have historically talked about the FTAI Power margins would be better or equal than Aerospace Products. You know, with your investment now in higher market share for Aerospace Products within the margin pressure that that's yielding, can you talk about where you think FTAI Power margins could be in the long run? I mean, compared to when you guys have talked about the FTAI Power initiative, this ability to turn around the maintenance in 1-2 days seems like a very significant opportunity. Does that materialize in better pricing, better margins? Anything to level set us on FTAI Power margins and what to expect for 2027 and 2028 would be helpful. Thanks.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

Yeah. I would say our margins, right, when we talked about it, are going to be in line to our historical Aerospace Product smargins, right? I would say there's no changes, you know, based on, you know, our growth in market share on Aerospace Products. That has no impact on FTAI Power. You know, we're obviously gonna be providing more color as we progress through specifics of these contracts. You're right. The long-term service agreement is the key differentiator. It's really value add for the customer and for us, it's recurring revenue, right? Really sets up a long-term base. Typically, the type of contracts we're going to enter are gonna be long-term in nature. Let's say 10+ years.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

I think that's a very important piece because it's not only the day one sale, but it's also the ability to provide services on that equipment, which is, you know, a huge differentiator for our customers and something they prioritize when talking to us.

[Kristine Liwag, Analyst at Morgan Stanley]

Great. Thank you very much.

[Operator]

Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Giuliano Bologna of Compass Point. Your line is now open.

[Giuliano Bologna, Analyst at Compass Point]

Good morning, and congratulations on the continued, you know, impressive results and the scaling of the business. The one thing I'd like to focus on is the real acceleration in the module count in producing 270 this quarter. You know, can you tell us more about what's driving that acceleration in the module production? Because it seems like pretty impressive, you know, acceleration in your production volumes. And be curious about the, you know, durability and, you know, where things could go from there because it does seem very well versus your stated targets for the year.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

Yes. No, we're proud of the execution from the team, right? As we said all along, we've been really focused on execution, and that includes adding the capacity, which we've done. Number two is the people, right? We've been focusing on adding the right people, and we talked about the training academy, so that continues to be humming. Obviously number three is execution. We're very excited. I think that's playing out in the numbers. As you mentioned, we went from 138 modules in Q1 in 2025 to 270. You know, pretty dramatic increase year-over-year. I would point out that Rome and Lisbon are still, you know, ramping up. I think we see a lot of momentum from those facilities and a lot of, you know, growth coming.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

We're very excited. I think Joe also mentioned this earlier. We continue to look for additional capacity east of Rome. I think that's a key priority for the business. We wanna get ahead, well ahead of capacity, you know, as we continue to go for market share.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

I think also having a parts supply deal from the OEM helps us scale as well. That, you know, that's a huge provider of parts. You need parts, people, and facilities to build an engine. We've really concentrated the last year on all three of those. You know, the result is we're able to double production year-over-year.

[Giuliano Bologna, Analyst at Compass Point]

That's very impressive. I appreciate the time. I'll jump back in the queue. Thank you.

[Operator]

Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes on the line of Josh Sullivan of JonesTrading. Your line is now open.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

Hey, good morning.

[Josh Sullivan, Analyst at JonesTrading]

I wanted to touch base on the conflict in the Middle East. I know your exposure is pretty limited, but if this is a projected broader event, you know, and given the cost-saving tools that FTAI offers, are you seeing any early conversations with new customers who might feel they're exposed to preparing?

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

I mean, when you get in these environments, liquidity becomes, you know, number one, two, and three for airlines to focus on. Anytime that happens, you start having inquiries on sale-leaseback opportunities, asset sales, avoiding engine shop visits. Yes, it's, you know, a direct result of the, you know, when you get into these environments, the priorities change, you know, for the airlines customers, and we're there to partner with them. We're always offering help. We've done this in other past crises. You know, if you think about COVID or, you know, back when airlines have been, you know, the Russian situation. We're always, you know, flexible and we have a lot of access to capital, and we can save, you know.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

We really, you know, go in and try to sort of sit down and work with the client, figure out what they want and what they need and what we can do and how to help them as opposed to a sort of an adversarial relationship. It's really a partnering approach, which has worked very well.

[Josh Sullivan, Analyst at JonesTrading]

Then I guess kind of relatedly, are you seeing any acceleration in engine assets for sale in the Middle East or Europe becoming available as a result of the conflict? I guess it's really a question on, you know, the retirement dynamic and how that's playing out in your view.

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

It's early, so we're not seeing that yet. As Joe mentioned, obviously for us, you know, we want our airlines to do well. The whole entire aviation industry is better when airlines are doing well, but we're well prepared, you know, with the tools that we have, right? I mean, Joe covered it. The ability for us to, you know, do a sale-leaseback with engine management really has two benefits, day one, you create liquidity, and day two, you avoid the expensive shop visits. We're really one of one that can execute at that scale. It's still early, but we're prepared to help when the time is right.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

I mean, the only things you see in the beginning are if people are flying, you know, A340s or 747s or sometimes some regional jets that are either, you know, really high cost or low revenue, those can be taken out of operation. That's sort of what you see in the early periods. Core fleets that people need to operate their schedule and they plan over multiple years, and you can't get replacement capacity. It's been such a tight market. You know, we don't expect to see much of anything on that changing in the next few months, even if this goes on.

[Josh Sullivan, Analyst at JonesTrading]

Great. Thank you for the time.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

Yep.

[Operator]

Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Brandon Oglenski of Barclays. Your line is now open.

[Brandon Oglenski, Analyst at Barclays]

Hey, good morning. Thanks for taking the question. Joe, can you speak maybe a little bit more on the customer profile of these larger airlines that you had in the quarter and, you know, looking forward as you seek to get more market share here? I think this might actually be very much a validation of the model that you have here, but I don't know, maybe you wanna elaborate.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

Yeah. I mean, it's a great question 'cause I mentioned last time that if I was talking to some of the big airlines 12 or 18 months ago, they would've been somewhat, you know, "We don't need this product," and were a little bit more dismissive. Now we talk to airlines, virtually everyone in the world is a potential customer, if not an actual customer today. The reason is you can go to an airline and say, "You tell me what you think you're gonna spend to rebuild an engine, and I'll match that price or beat that price for you, and I'll get rid of all the expenses you have to, you know, to incur to manage that event, like spare engines, engineering departments, and the risk that the cost, you know, becomes.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

You have a negative surprise and a cost overrun. All that goes away. It's like, who wouldn't wanna do that? You know? It is a great pitch. When airlines, you know, hear that and they think about it and say, "You know, why shouldn't I if particularly if I'm, you know, moving into the new technology, the LEAP, even if I have my own, you know, maintenance capabilities, why shouldn't I begin to use this product at least, you know, for a portion?" Then ultimately the conversation becomes, "Well, if you like it for, you know, 10% of your fleet, why not 100% of your fleet?" We have conversations now where we go into an airline and we might have acquired some aircraft on lease to an airline through SCI.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

The airline says, we go and say, "Great news. You never have to do another engine shop visit on that fleet ever again, so you don't have to fight with your lessor, and you don't have to, you know, manage the engine shop visit and end up spending a lot more money." They're like, "That's fantastic. Why don't you go try to buy all of my other leased aircraft from other lessors and convert those?" They're actually helping us, you know, to expand the relationship. Ultimately, the goal is to manage for an airline their entire fleet. Once you get to the level of comfort, it's like, why wouldn't they wanna do that?

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

I would say virtually every airline in the world, I can't think of, you know, maybe a handful that, you know, might not, but almost everybody in the world is a actual or potential customer.

[Brandon Oglenski, Analyst at Barclays]

Thank you for that, Joe. Nicholas, I think congrats on the new role, but you improved liquidity with a larger revolver, but I think also enhanced the warehousing facility on SCI. Is that correct?

[Nicholas McAleese, CFO at FTAI Aviation]

Yep, and thanks, Brandon. I think it's probably important to clarify first, they are two independent facilities from each other. The revolver is related to the public company and is the primary source of liquidity. The warehouse upsize was all related to closing out the deployment of capital for SCI I as we tracked to that $6 billion number. Said that, we do have lenders in both facilities that across them. As we become a bigger and bigger player on the SCI, we're able to see financial benefits. We're both very pleased with the outcome of this, is that we're able to improve terms on the public company given we're becoming a much larger player on the SCI.

[Brandon Oglenski, Analyst at Barclays]

Can you just put that in context of your expected capital commitment or capital cost at the corporate level, looking over the next year or two?

[Nicholas McAleese, CFO at FTAI Aviation]

Yep. For the first SCI, we have 19% of the $2 billion that we closed earlier in the year. The capital call for that, there's approximately $95 million remaining from that as of 3/31. We do expect that to be closed by Q2, and that will fully close out. As a reminder, SCI I is a closed-end fund, once we commit that capital, we'll then switch from being in investment mode to harvest mode. At that point, we'll start doing distributions back to all of the institutional LPs, including FTAI for its 19%. Related to SCI II, we are actively now in the equity fundraising mode.

[Nicholas McAleese, CFO at FTAI Aviation]

From that, we will expect to deploy capital in the second half of the year, but the timing of that will ultimately relate to the cadence of when we first do our equity closing.

[Brandon Oglenski, Analyst at Barclays]

Thank you.

[Operator]

Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Brian McKenna of Citizens. Your line is now open.

[Brian McKenna, Analyst at Citizens]

Okay, great. Thanks. Morning, everyone. There's clearly a lot of noise across private credit today, although most of that is within corporate direct lending. What are your dialogues like today for SCI II? We've been hearing that institutional allocators continue to deploy capital in a big way across private credit, despite all the rhetoric out there, specifically into ABF opportunities. I'm curious what you're seeing on this front, from your seat, what's ultimately driving such strong demand for your product?

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

Well, I would say ultimately it's returns. You know, we're not seeing any impact from, you know, whatever the, you know, the private credit side is experiencing in withdrawals or redemptions because our investors are all, you know, committed into private equity style vehicles and non-redeemable structures. It has no impact on our ability. Really what people like is an uncorrelated asset-based, you know, return that has high contractual cash flows. That's a sweet spot in the market. It always has been. It is. We hit that, you know, perfectly. What we're able to show people is a higher return with lower risk, which is another, you know, thing that every investor I've ever met is always trying to find that.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

We're able to show better returns than a traditional approach, given our engine maintenance exchange program and lower risk because we have less residual value exposure. There's really nothing, what we offer is, you know, is a great product in today's world. All of the investors in the first SPV were doing this with an idea that it would be a program, and they would be able to do this over, you know, multiple funds over the next few years. They're seeing great returns, they're very happy with what we've been able to do and are very committed to continuing to invest.

[Brian McKenna, Analyst at Citizens]

That's helpful. Thanks, Joe. You're clearly building a great network here of alternative asset managers and large institutional allocators for SCI. I'm curious, a lot of these large investors also own or are invested in data centers and energy-related infrastructure. I think you guys alluded to this a little bit, but is there an opportunity to leverage some of these relationships on the SCI side to further enhance the adoption and distribution of your power product over time?

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

Yes, this is David. The answer is absolutely. You know, we've talked about the demand being, you know, a lot of demand for leasing, long-term leasing. You know, we're thinking about it very similar to the way that you think about our aviation business, where we can create these long-term contracted cash flows. Our capital partners are very much, you know, wanting to invest in these type of assets. We feel very good about being able to scale that, and I think that's a very capital efficient way to do so. Absolutely.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

It also further differentiates our product because most equipment, you know, sellers don't offer financing. We, when we go to the customer, we say, like we did in aviation on the power side, "You can either buy it, you can lease it, or you can have a power purchase agreement. You tell us what you want." That flexibility is hugely beneficial to today's world where there's, you know, a lot of demand for capital, as you can see, and people are trying to figure out how to make it go farther. The flexibility that we can offer on the financing is extremely well-received, and it's a perfect structure for an SCI, you know, power vehicle.

[Brian McKenna, Analyst at Citizens]

All right, I'll leave it there. Thanks so much.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

Thanks.

[Operator]

Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Shannon Doherty of Deutsche Bank. Your line is now open.

[Shannon Doherty, Analyst at Deutsche Bank]

Hey, good morning. Thanks for taking my questions. First one for Nicholas, and congratulations on your new role. After the additional $5 million of expected insurance proceeds this year, will you be completely finished with the insurance claims?

[Nicholas McAleese, CFO at FTAI Aviation]

Thanks, Shannon. Yes, that's correct. We settled on $44.6 million in Q1, of which we received $27 million of that. The balance of that will be received in Q2 from cash proceeds. Remaining, that $5 million is consistent with our original guidance of $50 million. After that will be ultimately it and closed.

[Shannon Doherty, Analyst at Deutsche Bank]

Great. Thanks for the clarification. For my second question, you know, any update on the progress of getting the remaining PMA parts approval with the FAA? We all know that parts inflation is an issue for everyone in the industry right now, so maybe you can provide us with some more color on levers that you can pull to manage costs. Thanks for taking my questions.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

Well, sure. I mean, just to recap, there are five parts in total that Chromalloy have been working on. Three are approved. Those three represent about 80% of the total cost savings. The last two parts are in you know, process to getting approved. The majority of the cost savings is already, you know, with parts that are already available and in the market. They are in you know, the works in terms of getting approval for those last two.

[Operator]

Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Myles Walton of Wolfe Research. Your line is now open.

[Greg Dahlberg, Analyst at Wolfe Research]

Hi, good morning, everyone. This is Greg Dahlberg on for Myles. I just had a quick follow-up on Giuliano's question regarding module production. I wanted to focus more on Miami and Montreal specifically, just 'cause looks like Montreal is down sequentially in 1Q, and Miami was well above the full year run rate. Can you just talk about the dynamics specifically in 1Q and kind of how those play out through the year?

[David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation]

Yes, I can take that. Montreal is our most mature shop, which means they're gonna handle the heaviest work scopes. The product production mix is based purely on work scope. Montreal is doing, let's say, heavier shop visits, while Miami is doing a bit lighter, and then Rome today and Lisbon are doing the lightest work scopes.

[Greg Dahlberg, Analyst at Wolfe Research]

Got it. Thank you. A quick one for Nicholas, just given the corporate expense, in 1Q was embedded with some of the FTAI Power costs, can you talk about the full year expectation?

[Nicholas McAleese, CFO at FTAI Aviation]

Yeah. We had approximately $10 million in incremental expenses related to FTAI Power. That's R&D expense, and that's also incremental headcount from building out the teams of engineers, technicians, and support staff. Decomposing that, you can assume that we will be approximately slightly less on an annualized level related to that for 2026. As in the future years we plan on growing this into a 100-unit production growth, we will be increasing headcount. In outer years, you can expect that our expenses for power will continue to grow. Ultimately, there are some one-time expenses in Q1, Q2, Q3, as we do R&D that will immediately hit our P&L rather than being capitalized.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

Probably in 2027 it'll be a segment, and we will not have it in corporate going forward.

[Nicholas McAleese, CFO at FTAI Aviation]

Yes, that's correct.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

It'll be a sizable business, and we'll set it up as a separate, you know, reporting segment. All those expenses will be attributed, allocated to the FTAI Power business at that point.

[Greg Dahlberg, Analyst at Wolfe Research]

Got it. Thank you.

[Operator]

Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes on line of Andre Madrid of BTIG. Your line is now open.

[Andre Madrid, Analyst at BTIG]

Yeah. Thanks. Good morning. You know, this is the first quarter in a while that I can remember at least that we didn't see some kind of acquisition being announced. Obviously still remains a capital deployment priority. I guess just could you give more color as to what the M&A pipeline looks like? Maybe obviously not too deep in the details, but color around scale and maybe geographic location and capability.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

Yeah, I didn't realize we'd built an expectation that we have an M&A call every quarter. It is hard to, you know, control that. I would say, you know, on M&A, the activity is in two different categories. This one is adding capacity to the overhaul business. We did allude to the fact that we expect by this time next year that we'll have another facility somewhere east of Rome, Italy. We do have some candidates. We're working on that. It's often hard to control the timing on M&A, but, you know, we've been very disciplined, and we've found, you know, great assets to add. When we get the right structure and the right asset, we can move quickly. We're working on deals on that, in that category.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

The second area where we've been active is in piece part repair and part manufacturing. We have several deals that we're looking at in that space as well. We'll continue to vertically integrate in our product offering. Anytime we can undertake an activity to reduce the costs of, you know, overhauling and building an engine, we're gonna be very aggressive about that. Last year we added Pacific Aerodynamic and Prime through the Bauer partnership. We'll keep looking at and hopefully add, you know, additional capability in the repair and piece part manufacturing business in the future.

[Andre Madrid, Analyst at BTIG]

Awesome, awesome. Appreciate the color. I'll leave it there. Thanks, y'all.

[Joe Adams, CEO at FTAI Aviation]

Yep.

[Operator]

Thank you. I'm showing no further questions at this time. I'll now turn it back to Alan Andreini for closing remarks.

[Alan Andreini, Head of Investor Relations at FTAI Aviation]

Thank you, Marvin, and thank you all for participating in today's conference call. We look forward to updating you after Q2.

[Operator]

Thank you for your participation in today's conference. This does conclude the program. You may now disconnect.

Participants

Executives

• Alan Andreini, Head of Investor Relations
• Joe Adams, CEO
• Nicholas McAleese, CFO

Analysts

• Andre Madrid, Analyst at BTIG
• Brandon Oglenski, Analyst at Barclays
• Brian McKenna, Analyst at Citizens
• David Moreno, President at FTAI Aviation
• Giuliano Bologna, Analyst at Compass Point
• Greg Dahlberg, Analyst at Wolfe Research
• Josh Sullivan, Analyst at JonesTrading
• Ken Herbert, Analyst at RBC
• Kristine Liwag, Analyst at Morgan Stanley
• Shannon Doherty, Analyst at Deutsche Bank
• Sheila Kahyaoglu, Analyst at Jefferies