The profile of our organisation today is very different to its conventional beginning as a local independent vendor-support leasing company created by a management buy-out from a then consolidating & divesting UK PLC in the early 1970s.  Rapid organic growth & sustained profitability during the period 1975-1985 led to the group’s first strategic reorganisation in 1986 and the subsequent cash purchase in 1987 of the receivables & component assets of   Anglo Scottish Finance’s “big-ticket” lease portfolio.

Thereafter, recurring corporate acquisitions fuelled 17 years of remarkable growth (the group having been accredited in 1991 as the UK’s best performing private company), extensive financial product innovation and the introduction of dedicated global aviation, healthcare & public sector divisions.

The commercial overhaul was cemented by the re-branding of the two resulting core businesses, namely “Pentagon Capital” managing all revolving aircraft & asset finance facilities and “Pentagon Consulting” providing airlines worldwide with enterprising fleet & flight planning, robust MRO models
& reliable technical appraisals. The two sector principals report key performance indicators to the Pentagon Capital & Consulting Partnership secretariat in the Isle-of-Man which, in the case of the former, determines the appropriate ratio of debt & equity necessary to complete upcoming aircraft purchases.

The group is strategically represented in Douglas (IOM), Dublin, Dubai, Fankfurt and London and respective personnel have a detailed understanding of the regulatory dynamics, compliance criteria and certification policy/process of no fewer than 27 non-EU CAA jurisdictions around the world. Furthermore, Pentagon Capital has to date issued unconditional power-of-attorney to many experienced firms of solicitors spanning all such jurisdictions in order to afford the group both instant momentum in cases which are time critical and investment protection in the event of operational crisis. A Hong Kong based joint venture is planned in 2007 to capitalise on a projected explosion in the volume of aircraft finance demand from the Chinese provincial & Pacific Rim country markets in the next decade.