Aerista and Aviox have formed a strategic partnership focused on applying AI to the used aircraft market.

Aerista, a US brokerage specialising in pre-owned Cirrus and turbine aircraft, handles around 300 transactions each year and more than $1.75 billion in transaction volume. Aviox is an aviation-focused AI company with systems already deployed across insurance risk profiling, operational intelligence and performance analysis.

At the centre of their partnership is AeristaMetrics, Aerista’s proprietary dataset built from more than 14 years of closed transaction history. The companies say the dataset differs from public listing information by reflecting completed transactions rather than asking prices and fragmented market signals.

Aviox will apply pattern recognition and decision-support systems to the dataset to improve how aircraft are valued, timed and compared across the market. The companies say the focus is on improving commercial decision-making rather than automating transactions.

“AI is only as powerful as the data it’s fed,” says Ryan Nathanson, founder and president of Aviox. “Most brokerage data is reactive and based on asking prices. Aerista’s closed-loop transaction history provides a foundation where AI can be applied more effectively, identifying patterns that are difficult to surface manually.”

The partnership aims to provide greater clarity around factors including maintenance history, record quality, prebuy readiness, ownership economics and market timing, alongside the human factors that influence how transactions progress.

Aerista says the system will help sellers with positioning and timing while giving buyers additional context when comparing aircraft values and market opportunities.