Pre-owned Cirrus, piston and light turbine aircraft broker based in Troutdale, Oregon
Aerista is an aircraft sales brokerage based at Portland-Troutdale Airport in Troutdale, Oregon. Chris Eichman and Steve Schwartz founded it in 2009 as TAS Aircraft Sales. Both had started their careers in Cirrus Aircraft sales, and the company later took the Aerista name.
The firm acts for both buyers and sellers. It runs an online showroom of listed aircraft and an 'Aircraft Wanted' service for buyers, and it can help arrange financing and insurance. It also publishes market data under the AeristaMetrics name.
Aerista started with late-model pre-owned piston aircraft and added a turbine division in 2014. The website lists the Cirrus SR series and Vision Jet, Diamond aircraft, the Pilatus PC-12, Cessna Citation jets and the Carbon Cub. Midwest Flyer described the company in 2020 as a pre-owned market partner of Cirrus Aircraft.
Besides its Troutdale headquarters, the website lists regional sales staff in Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Boise, Duluth, Atlanta, Knoxville and Orlando, and in Rheinmuenster, Germany. For 2025, the company reports $2.2 billion in transactions across 352 sales and acquisitions.
Aerista does not offer charter or aircraft management. It is a fit for owners and buyers of single-engine piston, single-engine turbine and light jet aircraft.
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Troutdale, Oregon, United States
