{"id":17448,"date":"2021-01-20T20:19:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T20:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=17448"},"modified":"2021-01-20T20:19:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T20:19:32","slug":"premier-aircraft-exceeds-2020-diamond-sales-projections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/florida\/premier-aircraft-exceeds-2020-diamond-sales-projections\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Premier Aircraft Exceeds 2020 Diamond Sales Projections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Premier Aircraft Sales, the largest Diamond Aircraft dealer\nin North America, announced stronger than expected Diamond sales for 2020,\nselling 23 new aircraft (11 DA62s and 12 DA40s) and 17 preowned models. Since\n2003, Premier has been the highest volume Diamond aircraft dealer in the world,\nnow selling a total of 637 new and preowned Diamond aircraft since then. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/csm_DA62_Gallery_Bild-_6__fdf41b8b02edit-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17450\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/csm_DA62_Gallery_Bild-_6__fdf41b8b02edit-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/csm_DA62_Gallery_Bild-_6__fdf41b8b02edit-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe went into 2020 with high expectations for our aircraft\nsales business,\u201d said Travis Peffer, Premier\u2019s president. \u201cWhen the pandemic\nhit in late February last year, we saw an industry-wide dip in business for a\nfew months. After we were awarded our Diamond territory in July of last year\nand opened two new sales offices \u2013 one in Texas and one in Massachusetts, we\nsaw a steady increase in business and ended the year with one of our strongest\nyears ever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peffer credits two factors with helping increase sales:\ncustomers looking to private air travel because of safety and efficiency\nbenefits over commercial air travel, and tax savings included as part of the\ncoronavirus relief CARES Act. \u201cOur November and December sales were tremendous\nand with Diamond aircraft in particular,\u201d he said. \u201cIn fact, we sold every\nDiamond we could get from the factory and are now sold out of new models for\nthe first months of 2021.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Premier\u2019s Diamond sales territory accounts for 42 percent of\naircraft sales and service for Diamond customers. The territory spans 19 U.S.\nstates, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Bahamas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe expanded our Diamond customer base in 2020 and look\nforward to a strong 2021 with new models such as the DA50 coming to market,\u201d\nsaid Jeff Owen, Premier vice president of Sales. \u201cDiamonds remain high-demand\naircraft due to their tremendous value and performance features as well as\nimpeccable safety record. There are Diamond models for every mission need and\npilot experience level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Owen adds that Premier offers a tiered referral incentive\nprogram to industry partners and individuals for new Diamond aircraft sales.\n\u201cWe\u2019re also currently working to increase inventory of used Diamond aircraft,\nespecially while there is a temporary shortage of new aircraft availability,\u201d\nhe said. \u201cWe offer no-obligation estimates to customers looking to trade or\nsell. Estimates can be really convenient for customers who have their aircraft\nin with us for service or maintenance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier Aircraft Sales, the largest Diamond Aircraft dealer in North America, announced stronger than expected Diamond sales for 2020, selling 23 new aircraft (11 DA62s and 12 DA40s) and 17 preowned models. Since 2003, Premier has been the highest volume Diamond aircraft dealer in the world, now selling a total of 637 new and preowned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DA62-1800-Sale-Aircraftedit-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17451,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17448\/revisions\/17451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}