Selling Aircraft, Lending Money

Norwalk, CT-based DaimlerChrysler Capital Services is here at Booth 3950 with "a large delegation if aircraft finance professionals" offering help in both helicopter and corporate aviation markets.

"Of particular interest," the company says, is a new vendor program for financing sales of new Raytheon aircraft.

DaimlerChrysler Capital notes its deep roots in aerospace, as its parent DaimlerChrysler AG has a major stake in the new European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, and through EADS has a piece of such aircraft-manufacturing giants as Airbus, Dassault Falcon and Eurocopter.

DaimlerChrysler Aviation, the former Pentastar Aviation, doubles as the parent company's flight department and also provides worldwide aviation services. Amsterdam-based AirFinance BV, a major lessor of aircraft to the world's airlines, is a DaimlerChrysler Capital sister company.

And if you like the look of the Mercedes-Benz CL 500 automobile on the DaimlerChrysler Capital display, it's being raffled-a 13-month lease, that is.