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Steven Udvar-Hazy occupe actuellement le rang #863 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur services). Fortune nette estimée : $5.0 B (+$496 sur 24h).
Steven Udvar-Hazy, who immigrated to New York from Hungary as a child, is credited with creating the airplane leasing industry.
He started his own airline in his 20s, but realized there was easier money to be made in buying planes and leasing them to airlines.
Udvar-Hazy's first airplane leasing firm, International Lease Finance Corp., was sold to AIG in 1990 for $1.3 billion.
Thirty six years later, he sold his second airplane leasing company, publicly traded Air Lease Corp., in a $7.4 billion deal.
The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum named its sister location in Virginia for him after a $60 million donation in 2000.
After immigrating to the U.S., Udvar-Hazy packed boxes in a Manhattan warehouse for 30 cents an hour when he was 14 years old.
Udvar-Hazy took his first flying lesson as a teenager and is still certified to fly multiple jets.
Udvar-Hazy and his wife Christine have donated more than $100 million to education, including to Stanford and the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Arizona.