David Hampson

Adopt a strategy that ensures smooth skies in your recently acquired bird.

Cycles, though unpredictable in duration, are a fact of life, even when it comes to insuring aircraft.

Predictable unpredictability appears to be the name of the game right now when it comes to aviation insurance,

The “winds of change” blowing through the aviation-insurance industry when I wrote about insurance for Flying in the 2019 Buyers’ Guide have now reached gale-force speeds. I worked in general-property and casualty insurance long before becoming an aviation-insurance specialist, and I have never seen anything like the rate volatility today. Just a few years ago, […]

“Let the good times roll” may have been an appropriate mantra for aviation-insurance consumers during the past 10 to 12 years, but the party might finally be over. While the total cost of aircraft ownership — i.e. hangar leases, fuel, maintenance costs, FBO fees and so on — have gone up substantially for the past […]