I have said it before, but if you have provided the funds to purchase an aircraft on the N reg whether or not you vest the aircraft in a trust or a corporation or a trust corporation take a legal charge over the asset. It saves issues over just about all the questions and problems you invent and it is not complicated. You are jsut as much entitled to take a charge as any finance house - do not neglect this option because you are funding the purchase from your own back pocket.