Ali Ben Lmadani founded ABL Aviation in December 2014 as a company specializing in Ground Support Equipment (GSE).
][1] Then, additional offices were opened in Casablanca,[2] Morocco,[3] Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Hong Kong, China.
Between 2020 and 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, ABL Aviation and Ellington Management Group established a joint venture with a target of $800 million in aircraft assets by deploying capital and offering exposure to directly sourced deals in the global aviation industry.
ABL Aviation is a member of the Aircraft Leasing Ireland (ALI) Sustainability Charter.
[25][26] As of November 2023, ABL Aviation managed and originated a fleet of 78 Airbus and Boeing aircraft: