Our Strategies
Real Assets
Acquiring and servicing commercial aircraft, engines and general-purpose equipment to drive attractive risk-adjusted returns, investing via various co-investment, fund vehicles and other structures.
Investing across asset types and age including:
- Next Generation Aircraft
- Mid-Life Aircraft
- Opportunistic End-Of-Life Aircraft
- Aircraft Engines
Phoenix Aviation Capital: A full-service aircraft lessor exclusively managed by AIP Capital. AIP Capital manages Phoenix's global $3bn fleet consisting of 66x aircraft including a 737 MAX 8 orderbook with Boeing.
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Private Credit
Direct origination with airlines providing bespoke credit solutions including:
- Secured Aircraft and Engine Financing: Providing bespoke credit solutions with aircraft and engines (across asset type and age) as collateral.
- Esoteric Assets: Providing bespoke credit solutions with varying asset collateral types
- Spare Parts, Other Hard Assets, Soft Collateral
- Pre-Delivery Payment Financing: Financing pre-delivery payments for airlines acquiring new aircraft.
- Mid and Small Ticket Lease Origination
Strategic Partnerships & Control Investments
- Business Aviation (Sankaty Jet Capital): Business aviation lending platform focused on providing financing solutions for counterparties across the business aviation industry.
- Equipment Finance (Harbor Point Equipment Finance): An equipment finance platform focused on acquiring seasoned performing and under-performing equipment lease and loan portfolios and originating equipment leases and loans and syndicating as well as servicing lease/loan portfolios.
- BeYoke Capital: AIP Capital and BeYoke have formed a strategic partnership to originate aircraft and engine investment opportunities for Japanese investors.
- Phoenix Aviation Capital: A full-service commercial aircraft leasing platform focused on providing flexible leasing and financing solutions to global airline customers, with an emphasis on new-generation, in-demand aircraft and long-term fleet partnerships.
- Witt Lake Asset Management: An asset management platform focused on asset-based and structured credit strategies, providing institutional investors with access to differentiated investment opportunities across aviation, equipment, and specialty finance markets.
- Alliant Air Capital: An aviation investment and finance platform focused on originating, structuring, and managing aircraft-related investments, supporting airline and aviation counterparties through customized capital and asset-backed financing solutions.
- AIP Capital - Asia: AIP Capital formed a joint-venture partnership to pursue strategic investments in the aviation investment markets of Korea, Asia, and the broader Asia-Pacific region.
Asset Management
AIP Capital manages a range of real assets through Witt Lake Asset Management and AIP Advisors:
Witt Lake Asset Management (WLAM)
Witt Lake Asset Management (WLAM) is an asset management firm focused on providing investment management services to investment funds, separately managed accounts and other vehicles managed by WLAM. WLAM provides advisory services to privately offered investment funds, single investor funds, co-investment vehicles, pooled investment vehicles and other similar types of investment entities focused on sourcing, buying, trading, and managing investments and securities, on both a discretionary and non-discretionary basis.
WLAM currently has approximately $1.1 Billion of assets under management with the majority of these assets being aviation private credit instruments managed on behalf of insurance clients.
AIP Advisors
AIP Capital Advisors LLC (AIP Advisors) provides advisory services to privately offered investment funds, separately managed accounts, and other investment vehicles, with a focus on originating and managing aviation-related investments. As of December 31, 2025, AIP Advisors manages approximately $360 million in assets.
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