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I recommend AppraiseItNow Inc. highly… I would use them again
They diligently researched both equipment items and provided well-documented reports
AppraiseItNow was able to provide me exactly what I needed on a timely basis
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT AIRCRAFT EQUIPMENT APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, INSURANCE AGENCIES, LENDERS, AND MORE.
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Owner & CEO
Joe founded AppraiseItNow to make a certified, USPAP-compliant appraisal as simple to order as anything else online. A former Bain & Company strategy consultant, Joe leads the entire team and specializes in strategy, growth, and the firm's tech capabilities.
Machinery & Equipment Appraiser
Third-generation auctioneer and CAGA Certified Appraiser with more than 20 years valuing machinery, equipment, vehicles, business assets, and estates for banks, attorneys, and trustees across the Carolinas.
Vehicle Appraiser
CAGA Certified Appraiser since 2014, covering vehicles, boats, equipment, fine art, and collectibles. A classic-car restoration background informs her vehicle work, with reports prepared for insurance, divorce, and charitable contributions.
Client Success Manager
Manages each engagement from the first enquiry to the delivered report, and keeps you posted at every step along the way.
Certified Appraisers Guild of AmericaCertified Appraiser
The Appraisal FoundationAuthorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standardsAppraiseItNow provides certified aircraft equipment appraisals for tax filings, insurance coverage and claims, asset-based lending, estate and gift tax reporting, charitable donations, and transactions including acquisitions and divestitures.
What drives value
Aircraft equipment is a highly specialized asset class whose values move with airworthiness status, avionics configuration, maintenance history, and regulatory compliance. Our appraisers understand both the technical and the market-specific factors unique to aviation assets, as a focused subset of our equipment and machinery appraisal services.
How we work
Many aircraft equipment appraisals are completed remotely. We coordinate an onsite inspection when asset complexity, lender requirements, or the scope of the engagement requires one. Remote work draws on:
Value definitions
We offer Fair Market Value, Orderly Liquidation Value, Forced Liquidation Value, and Replacement Value appraisals of aircraft equipment, each written for the intended use of the report.
We appraise aircraft equipment well beyond the airframe itself: installed systems, spare and overhauled units, ground support assets, training devices, and the parts inventories that keep a fleet flying.
Powerplant and cockpit
The systems that fly the aircraft, plus the spare and overhauled units held for them:
Cabin, rotor, mission
Cabin completions, helicopter drivetrain components, and the payloads carried in commercial or government operations:
Ground and training
Assets that support the operation from the ramp, the classroom, and the parts room:
We work with individual aircraft owners, flight schools, charter operators, corporate flight departments, and leasing companies, and with the lenders, insurers, estate attorneys, and CPAs who require an independent aircraft equipment valuation for regulatory, financial, or legal purposes.
Owners and operators
Individual aircraft owners, flight schools, charter operators, corporate flight departments, and leasing companies engage us when their equipment needs an independent value for a transaction, a filing, or coverage.
Lenders and advisors
Lenders, insurers, estate attorneys, and CPAs bring us aircraft equipment appraisals when a client's loan, policy, estate, or tax return depends on a credentialed valuation.
What aircraft equipment appraisal clients say we are known for
Across 16 published aircraft equipment appraisal reviews, every one from a client who paid AppraiseItNow for an appraisal, the three things they raise most often are that they would hire us again, how quickly we answer, and how much research is visible in the report.
I recommend AppraiseItNow Inc. highly. I needed an appraisal of fair market value for geologic laboratory equipment for charitable donations to three universities. The unique items and limited secondary market complicated the valuation. They provided a sound, verifiable estimate and the 8283 forms that I was able to use in my tax filings. I would use them again.
Lab Equipment Appraisal for Charitable Donation
AppraiseItNow did an outstanding job appraising my 1998 Bobcat Skid Steer and circa 2010 Yuchai Crawler Dozer. We could not locate a serial number on the dozer, and there were no online sales available, but they were still able to develop an accurate appraisal using known specifications for my dozer compared to other comparable make and model dozers. They diligently researched both equipment items and provided well-documented reports.
Machinery & Equipment Appraisal
I needed an IRS-qualified appraisal for an unusual and costly piece of medical equipment. AppraiseItNow was able to provide me exactly what I needed on a timely basis. The personnel at the company are very friendly and helpful. I would definitely use them again.
Medical Equipment Appraisal for Charitable Donation
Affordable and reliable, with fast service and always responsive to my messages and questions. They delivered my appraisal on time without a glitch. 100% Recommended! I wouldn’t use anyone else for my business. Thank you, Joe — you’re great!
Machinery & Equipment Appraisal for Bankruptcy Filing
I highly recommend the AppraiseItNow team. They were responsive and timely from start to finish, and the whole process was seamless. The final report was super detailed and gave me all the information I needed. I am so glad I hired them and would recommend them to anyone needing an appraisal!
Technology Equipment Appraisal for Divorce
They did an appraisal of medical equipment for donation. They did it quickly, and I received a blank form 8283 signed by the appraiser. It was what I needed. The price was higher than I wanted to spend on an appraisal, but a lot lower than other appraisers. AppraiseItNow was very responsive and communicative, and the other appraisers were not. I would use them again.
Medical Equipment Appraisal for Charitable Donation
Submit estimate or list of items for our review.
We'll share a flat fee quote for your approval.
Submit details on all of your items for our review.
We'll conduct detailed research and prepare a written USPAP-compliant report.
Delivery of your report and supporting documents (e.g., signed IRS Form 8283) by email.
Given the USPAP-compliant nature of AppraiseItNow’s appraisal reports, we prepare our deliverables for major legal, tax, and financial reporting purposes for individual and commercial clients.
Popular uses of our appraisal reports include:
Industry pricing digests such as Aircraft Bluebook and VREF, refined with current asking prices, recent verified sales, OEM data, and maintenance records. Digest figures are a starting point; our appraisers adjust them for the specific airframe, engines, avionics, and market trend data, because book numbers alone often reflect stale or incomplete market evidence.
The spec sheet and complete maintenance logs: total airframe time and landings, engine make, model, hours and cycles, installed avionics, maintenance program enrollment, damage and repair history, and airworthiness directive compliance. Missing or incomplete logbooks can produce substantial value discounts even when the aircraft looks excellent, because they cloud remaining useful life and marketability.
A digest-only valuation is the least comprehensive option: it can miss refurbishments, avionics age, and upcoming heavy maintenance events. A fuller appraisal integrates the digests with market research on supply, demand, comparable listings and sales, and maintenance status, and a physical appraisal adds an inspection to verify condition and records. For financing, litigation, or unique and heavily modified aircraft, the deeper scopes are materially more credible.
No. Age-based formulas ignore mid-life engine overhauls, avionics retrofits, maintenance program status, and cyclical market demand, so they can significantly misstate value for both older and recently refurbished aircraft. Professional practice under USPAP requires considering the sales comparison, cost, and income approaches and relying on the ones that fit the data, not a fixed depreciation rule.
Because aircraft valuation recognizes multiple distinct definitions, including base value, market value, fair market value, residual, distress, securitized, salvage, and scrap value, each with different assumptions about marketing time and conditions. Applying a number developed for one context, such as loan collateral, to another, such as tax reporting or litigation, is a common and costly misinterpretation. Every report we prepare states the value definition it concludes.