FTAI Aviation Ltd
For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Mar 3, 2025.
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FY2024 · Filed Mar 3, 2025
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Item 8. Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Shareholders and the Board of Directors of FTAI Aviation Ltd.
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of FTAI Aviation Ltd. (the Company) as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), changes in equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2024, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company at December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2024, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework) and our report dated March 3, 2025 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matter
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective or complex judgments. The communication of the critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.
| Recognition of Maintenance Revenue for Aircraft Leases | |
| Description of the Matter | As described in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company recognizes maintenance revenue for aircraft leases related to the portion of maintenance payments received from lessees that are not expected to be reimbursed for major maintenance events. Maintenance revenue totaled $200.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, a portion of which relates to maintenance revenue for aircraft leases.Auditing maintenance revenue for aircraft leases was challenging due to the estimation involved in the Company’s complex modeling process. The estimation is sensitive to certain assumptions in the model such as the mean time between removal (MTBR) and forecasted utilization of the aircraft, which are affected by historical usage patterns and market conditions. Significant changes to the MTBR assumption could have a material effect on the amount of maintenance revenue on lease aircraft recognized in the period. |
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| How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit | We obtained an understanding, evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of controls over the Company’s process for recognizing maintenance revenue for aircraft leases, including controls over management’s review of the estimated timing of major maintenance events as described above.To test maintenance revenue for aircraft leases, we performed audit procedures that included, among others, assessing the Company’s revenue recognition methodology and testing the MTBR assumption described above for a sample of aircraft. For example, we compared the MTBR assumption to data provided by a third-party specialist, assessed the accuracy of the historical usage patterns and the calculation of the forecasted utilization, and assessed the Company’s retrospective review of timing of estimated maintenance events to actual results to assess the historical accuracy of the MTBR assumption. We also involved our valuation specialists to assist in our evaluation of the appropriateness of the market conditions used in developing the MTBR assumption. |
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/s/Ernst & Young LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2016.
New York, New York
March 3, 2025
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