The company's purpose is to engage in all activities related to aviation, acquire, operate and hold aircraft and aircraft components, as well as lease and charter them to third parties, trade in aircraft and aircraft components. The company may also establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire and finance such companies. Furthermore, the company may acquire, encumber, sell and manage real estate in Switzerland and abroad, as well as conduct all business that may be suitable to promote the company's purpose or that is directly or indirectly related to it. The company may provide financial services to its direct and indirect shareholders and other affiliated companies, in particular grant loans or other financing and provide collateral of all kinds for their liabilities, including by way of pledges on, or security assignments and transfers of, the company's assets, or by way of guarantees and sureties of all kinds, for consideration or not.