The short answer
FTAI Aviation (FTAI) remains HALAL under ZakatInvest's qualitative core-business verdict, but its current total-assets financial screen fails on leverage. The qualitative verdict is HALAL because FTAI repairs and sells aircraft engines, provides maintenance services and leases aviation equipment. Its March 2026 filing reports debt/assets of 76.20%, above the examined leverage limits. Finance-lease accounting, airline end uses, the 2025 Partnership and a smaller offshore-energy business remain matters on which scholars can differ.
This is a reproducible research screen, not a fatwa or investment recommendation. Investors should compare the evidence with the methodology and scholar they follow.
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.
Current quantitative screen
The calculations above use FTAI Aviation's official filing (Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2026). Amounts are in USD millions and use total assets as the denominator so the inputs can be reproduced from the filing.
- Interest-bearing debt / assets: 76.20%, using $3.451 billion of total debt net of issuance costs.
- Cash plus separately identified interest-bearing securities / assets: 9.10%, using $412.240 million of cash and no separately identified debt-securities balance.
- Receivables plus cash / assets: 19.47%, using $176.873 million of accounts receivable, $259.652 million of notes receivable, $32.815 million of financing receivables and the reported cash balance.
- Gross interest income: unavailable. The filing reports $61.407 million of interest expense but does not separately disclose gross interest income.
The reproduced FTSE Yasaar, MSCI total-assets and Malaysia SAC financial-ratio calculations all fail because debt/assets is above the examined leverage limit. Liquidity and receivables-plus-cash are below the corresponding asset limits, but gross interest income and a universal prohibited-activity allocation remain unavailable. Market-cap-denominator methods are not calculated because this site does not store a licensed, reproducible historical market-cap series.
What FTAI Aviation does now
FTAI describes itself as an independent engine-maintenance platform focused on CFM56-5B, CFM56-7B and V2500 engines. Its current filing reports Aerospace Products revenue of $522.585 million, MRE Contract revenue of $221.230 million, lease income of $39.892 million, maintenance revenue of $30.599 million, asset-sales revenue of $10.184 million and other revenue of $6.207 million for Q1 2026.
This replaces the older fixed three-part revenue split. The filing provides current segment figures instead: Aerospace Products generated $743.815 million and Aviation Leasing generated $86.882 million. Corporate and Other also includes debt, an offshore-energy business and FTAI Power, so the entire company should not be described as only a simple engine-leasing business.
Qualitative considerations
- Aircraft engines and MRO: manufacturing, repairing and maintaining commercial aircraft engines are generally permissible industrial and transportation services, supporting the qualitative HALAL core-business verdict.
- Finance-lease income: FTAI says lease payments are separated into principal and interest components, with unearned income recognized using an effective-interest method. Scholars may distinguish a genuine asset lease from a conventional loan, but the accounting and contract terms warrant review.
- Airline customers: airlines may serve alcohol or other prohibited products. FTAI supplies engines and maintenance rather than food or beverage operations, but indirect facilitation is a qualitative question rather than a quantified prohibited-revenue percentage.
- 2025 Partnership: FTAI sold aircraft and engines to a partnership in which it retains a 19% equity-method interest and provides servicing. Related-party MRE Contract revenue reached $221.230 million in Q1 2026, so partnership economics should be monitored separately.
- Offshore energy: Corporate and Other includes an offshore-energy business and FTAI Power. The filing does not provide a clean revenue figure that would support a universal activity screen.
- Leverage and asset risk: total debt, aircraft and engine residual values, customer concentration, maintenance deposits, preferred dividends and guarantee obligations are material financial considerations.
How the methodologies differ
FTSE Yasaar, MSCI total-assets and Malaysia SAC all fail the current debt ratio. Liquidity and receivables-plus-cash pass the examined asset limits, but gross interest income and the business allocation remain incomplete. These are calculations against named methods, not official index-membership claims or a universal scholarly ruling.
Bottom line
FTAI is presented as HALAL on ZakatInvest's qualitative core-business assessment, with a current financial-screen failure on debt/assets. Investors who require every financial ratio to pass may avoid it or wait for leverage to improve. The filing does not support a fixed purification percentage, so no percentage is prescribed here.
Engine products, leasing and MRO are generally permissible, while leverage, finance-lease terms, related-party activity and offshore-energy exposure require continuing review.
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