Complaint / Review
Richard Byers
Aviation Asset Management Payment fraud

Richard Byers owns Aviation Asset Management which owns 3 aircraft N601DA, N62962 and N3587C. He hides behind the LLC to not pay people what he owes them. He has repeatedly had maintenance done on these aircraft by multiple maintenance facilities and an FBO across Central Florida and then leaves without paying.

We did a lot of work on his aircraft when the bill got high we asked for deposits. He paid the deposits with a credit card over the phone. After we finished the work on his plane he called the credit card company and reversed charges because, we did not have a copy of his credit card and he hadn't signed anything he got away with it. He is now working with an individual named Marc Baron who is a fake lawyer. He had Marc come to our office and threaten to sue us and reverse all the charges (which as I said earlier they did unless we forgot about our bill.)

He ripped us off for over $30,000 and if you check on his planes we are not the only maintenance company with liens on them. The liens go through many years which I assume means he is in a habit of doing this. When we let them have the plane originally his wife Mary Anne Byers looked us straight in the face and promised we would get paid. Since we didn't know their intentions and they had given us the deposits we thought nothing of it.

We are a small family owned company we can't afford to loose that kind of money but, they don't care about that.

One of the parts they claimed as fraud we purchased for one of the planes that was down in Puerto Rico. We physically handed the part to one of their business associate Ivan Figueroa who took it down to Puerto Rico. They also, reversed this charge. This was the only thing on this invoice for that charge. If you go to their website you will see that Ivan is their director of operations and Richard is their president.

We are currently looking into legal action since the liens will not be paid until they sell the planes.

I would not do any work for this man. If you do work for this man I suggest you get cash up front.