Apollo Aviation breaks through $1bn AUM

Apollo Aviation Group (Apollo Aviation) and Sciens Capital Management have raised approximately $595 million from a broad array of investors for its second aviation fund, Sciens Aviation Special Opportunities Investment Fund II (SASOF II). With this deal Apollo Aviation now has over $1.4billion assets under management (AUM). SASOF II is managed by Apollo Aviation, a full service commercial aircraft asset manager jointly owned by its founders and principals, William Hoffman and Robert Korn, and by an affiliate of Sciens Capital Management LLC. SASOF II is a follow-on fund to the $213 million Sciens Aviation Special Opportunities Investment Fund (SASOF), which