FTAI
FTAI Aviation Ltd.
Is FTAI Halal?
Aircraft-engine maintenance, products and leasing are generally permissible, but the current filing-based asset screen fails on leverage and finance-lease/related-party activity remains scholar-dependent.
What You Should Know
FTAI's March 2026 filing reports $4.529 billion of assets, $3.451 billion of interest-bearing debt, $412 million of cash, $469 million of receivables and $831 million of quarterly revenue. Debt/assets are 76.20%, liquidity/assets 9.10% and receivables plus cash/assets 19.47%; the filing reports $61 million of interest expense but does not separately disclose gross interest income or a universal prohibited-revenue numerator.
⚠️ Concerns
- •Debt/assets are 76.20% under the current total-assets calculation and fail the examined financial limits
- •Finance-lease income and effective-interest accounting require school-specific review
- •The 2025 Partnership creates related-party aircraft, engine and servicing exposure
- •Corporate and Other includes an offshore-energy business not separately quantified
- •No fixed purification percentage is prescribed because gross interest income and screened revenue are unavailable
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-13.
3,451.087 / 4,528.911
412.24 / 4,528.911
881.58 / 4,528.911
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt is 76.20% of total assets and exceeds the examined FTSE limit. Liquidity is 9.10% and receivables plus cash are 19.47%, below the corresponding asset limits; gross interest income remains unavailable and the business allocation is incomplete.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt is 76.20% of total assets and exceeds the examined MSCI total-assets limit. Liquidity is 9.10% and receivables plus cash are 19.47%; this is a calculation against the named method, not an index-membership claim, and the activity and income evidence remains incomplete.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt is 76.20% of total assets and exceeds the examined 33% limit; identifiable liquidity is 9.10%. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official SAC classification of a U.S.-listed security; the business screen remains incomplete.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Not calculated
A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored, so these methods are not estimated from a current spot price.
Business-activity disclosure
FTAI Aviation operates an independent aircraft-engine maintenance platform focused on CFM56 and V2500 engines, aerospace-products sales, aircraft and engine leasing, and maintenance, repair and overhaul. These aviation and industrial services are generally permissible core activities, while finance-lease accounting, airline end uses, the 2025 Partnership and a smaller offshore-energy business create school- and contract-specific questions.
Limitation: The filing reports revenue by aerospace products, MRE contracts, lease, maintenance, asset sales and other revenue but does not quantify a universal prohibited end-use or interest-income numerator. No zero-haram-revenue or fixed purification claim is entered.
Purification
Gross interest income is not separately disclosed, and the filing does not quantify a universal allocation for finance-lease income, airline end uses or offshore-energy activity. The site therefore does not prescribe a fixed purification percentage; readers should follow the scholar or methodology they use.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Interest-bearing debt uses $3,451.087 million of total debt net of issuance costs. The revolving facility had no outstanding balance; maintenance deposits, security deposits and lease liabilities are not added to this debt input.
- Cash uses $412.240 million of cash and cash equivalents. The filing separately reports $412.390 million of cash and restricted cash in the cash-flow statement; the balance-sheet cash figure is used here and restricted cash is not inferred as unrestricted liquidity.
- No separately identified interest-bearing securities balance is reported. Equity-method investments in the 2025 Partnership, Advanced Engine Repair JV and QuickTurn Europe are not treated as debt securities.
- Receivables use $176.873 million of accounts receivable, $259.652 million of notes receivable and $32.815 million of financing receivables from failed sale-leaseback transactions. Prepaid maintenance and other non-receivable balances are excluded.
- Revenue uses $830.697 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026: $522.585 million aerospace products, $221.230 million MRE contract revenue, $39.892 million lease income, $30.599 million maintenance revenue, $10.184 million asset sales and $6.207 million other revenue.
- The filing reports $61.407 million of interest expense but does not separately disclose gross interest income. The income input is therefore unavailable rather than estimated.
- FTAI's Corporate and Other segment includes debt and an offshore energy business, while the primary operating platform focuses on aircraft engines, leasing, maintenance, repair and overhaul. The filing does not provide a universal prohibited-revenue numerator for airline customers, offshore energy or finance-lease income.
This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.
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