Echo Aviation Leasing Corporation - Aircraft Financing

Echo Aviation Leasing Corporation is a structured finance and advisory company headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with a U.S. office in Miami. It works with buyers and owners of business aircraft and helicopters.

Its services fall into three areas: financing and leasing, aircraft sales and acquisitions, and portfolio management. The company presents itself as a single point of contact for an aircraft transaction, from sourcing an aircraft to arranging the funding behind it.

Aircraft shown on its website range from turboprops such as the Pilatus PC-12 NG and Cessna Caravan 208 to business jets including the Bombardier Challenger 604 and Cessna Citation SII, along with a regional DHC-8-Q400 and a group of BK117 B-2 helicopters. The firm's activity is not limited to business aviation: a 2020 report by PE Hub described Echo as a Canadian aviation financing provider that acquired four leased Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft.

The company states that its team has transacted on more than 1,200 aircraft over roughly two decades. It also runs a carbon offset programme that lets clients offset business aircraft emissions, either directly or within a financing agreement.

Echo is a finance and transaction firm rather than an operator; it does not offer charter flights.