Fort Lauderdale · Broward County · Part 91 dry lease
Aircraft leasing for Fort Lauderdale — a Citation CJ1, done as a true dry lease.
Palm Aero Group dry-leases one well-kept Citation CJ1 for Broward County people and businesses. It’s hangared at Palm Beach County Park Airport (LNA) in Lantana and available now. You supply your own pilot and hold operational control under Part 91 — the schedule, the routing and the go/no-go are yours — and you pay direct costs instead of an operator’s retail rate.
Fort Lauderdale
The straight answer first: where the jet lives
The aircraft isn’t based in Fort Lauderdale. It’s hangared at LNA in Lantana, roughly 24 nautical miles north of Fort Lauderdale Executive (FXE). We’d rather say that up front than let a page title suggest otherwise.
For a Broward lessee, that leaves two practical options:
- Start at LNA. Drive up and depart from our home field. I-95 and the Turnpike decide how long that takes on a given day, so check the route from your own door.
- Have your pilot position the jet. Your pilot can position the aircraft to FXE or any Florida airport — at your cost, under your lease. Price that leg alongside the drive before you decide.
Either way, it’s the same airplane every time — its history, its records, its hangar. Not whichever tail happens to be free that morning.
Broward airports
Broward’s airports, from a lessee’s chair
Broward has several places to start a light-jet day, and your pilot will have a view on which suits your mission.
- Fort Lauderdale Executive (FXE) — a general aviation field, roughly 24 nm from LNA.
- Pompano Beach Airpark (PMP) — a general aviation field, roughly 21 nm from LNA.
- Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International (FLL) — an airline hub. Excellent at moving airline passengers; a light jet there waits in the same sequencing as everyone else.
- Boca Raton (BCT) — a general aviation field just north of the county line, roughly 13 nm from LNA.
More on why the jet lives at a general aviation field: why Lantana (LNA) is a smart light-jet base.
Airport information here is general orientation only — confirm current services, hours, fees and access with the field directly and with your pilot before operating there.
What you’re leasing
A 2001 Cessna Citation CJ1, kept like it’s ours
Six passengers in a club cabin, Pro Line 21 avionics, single-pilot certified — one qualified pilot where insurance allows. Inspection-fresh and hangared at LNA, with scheduled maintenance and airworthiness upkeep covered by the lease. Ask and we’ll send the records before you visit. See the CJ1 →
The numbers
What it costs, line by line
- The aircraft: $1,750/hr on a block of at least 25 hours, good for 12 months — or $1,950/hr pay-as-you-go with no commitment. Rates are indicative.
- Fuel: roughly $600/hr, at CAA member contract pricing at CAA Preferred FBOs, where available.
- Your pilot: typically about $1,000–1,500 a day, paid by you directly to the pilot.
Landing, handling, catering and overnight hangar are yours too, as for any Part 91 operator. On the site’s example — a round trip from our base to Atlanta — a dry lease pencils out around $9,500 all-in; chartered, the same trip typically lands near $15,000. Illustrative, not a quote.
Starting from Fort Lauderdale Executive (FXE)? The positioning leg from LNA is part of your trip’s cost — at your cost, under your lease — so put it in your numbers. Run your own route from FXE · or from LNA. Every assumption is editable.
Who it fits
Who dry-leases a jet from Fort Lauderdale
Frequent charter customers
If you charter 15+ hours a year out of FXE or FLL, you already know the retail rates — and the 9 AM “no availability,” the repositioning fee, the stranger in the left seat. A dry lease gives you the same class of jet at direct cost, on one tail you’ll come to know.
Businesses that would rather not own
Jet access at direct costs — no aircraft on the balance sheet, no crew on payroll. Your pilot, your operational control, and documents in front of your counsel early.
Owners between aircraft
Sold the last one and the next one’s months out — or yours is down for an inspection. A short bridge lease keeps your calendar intact, and your crew moves right over.
Owner-pilots building CE-525 time
The CJ1 is single-pilot certified. Fly it yourself where your insurance allows, and log time in a well-kept airframe.
What you handle
- ✓Your crew — a pilot you choose, hire, and pay directly (we can share a list of independent pilots, or bring your own)
- ✓Insurance naming you as the operator
- ✓Operational control of every flight, under Part 91
- ✓Fuel and trip costs — landing, handling, catering, overnight hangar
What we don’t do
- ✕Sell flights, seats, or air transportation
- ✕Provide, pick, or schedule your pilots
- ✕Hold a Part 135 certificate — by design
“Aircraft leasing” covers a lot of different things — charter brokers, jet cards, fractional shares, management. This is one specific structure: a Part 91 dry lease. We hand you the keys to a jet we own and maintain; you do the driving.
Need a flown-for-you trip instead? That’s a charter — and we’re deliberately not a charter company. We’re happy to point you to a certificated Part 135 operator.
Straight answers
Questions from Fort Lauderdale
Is the jet based in Fort Lauderdale?
Can I depart from FXE instead of FLL?
How is this different from chartering a jet in Fort Lauderdale?
Do I need to be a pilot to lease a jet?
Can I see the aircraft before I sign anything?
Send your Fort Lauderdale routes — get lease pricing.
Tell us your routes and roughly how many hours a year you fly — an owner replies with real numbers, block or pay-as-you-go.
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Ten minutes with an owner beats an hour of reading.
Call or text with your Fort Lauderdale routes — we’ll walk the structure, the numbers, and whether it’s actually a fit.