Paramount Business Jets Earns WYVERN WINGMAN Broker Certification After Independent Audit

Paramount Business Jets, an independent private jet charter advisor based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, has earned WYVERN WINGMAN Broker certification. The certification, announced September 24, 2026, followed an in-person examination by aviation safety professionals covering operator due diligence, charter coordination, client communication, emergency response planning, ethics, data protection, and quality assurance.

Richard Zaher, Founder and CEO of Paramount Business Jets, said "In private aviation, a broker's responsibility goes well beyond arranging an aircraft," adding that "Earning WYVERN WINGMAN Broker certification independently validates the principles that have guided Paramount for more than two decades." Paramount has been a registered WYVERN broker for more than a decade.

Paramount was founded in 2005, and its team carries more than 100 years of combined aviation experience. Before each charter flight, a Paramount aviation advisor conducts safety checks on the specific operator, aircraft, and crew under the oversight of the company's in-house Safety Manager, and clients receive a written safety report before departure. Paramount operates as an independent broker, does not own or operate aircraft, and provides access to more than 4,000 vetted aircraft worldwide. The company also holds ARGUS Certified Charter Broker status, an A+ BBB rating, and a D&B Platinum rating, and has appeared four times on the Inc. 500/5000 list. WYVERN, founded in 1991, is an aviation safety auditing and certification organization certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 standards.

Broker-level certification programs like WYVERN's exist because charter buyers cannot directly inspect the operators and aircraft a broker arranges access to; the audit substitutes for that missing visibility by checking the broker's own due-diligence process rather than any single aircraft. In a segment where the broker owns no metal, the value it sells is judgment: how it screens operators, aircraft, and crew before a client boards, and independent certification is one of few external signals of that judgment's consistency.

What happens next is whether other independent brokers pursue the same WINGMAN audit, or whether Paramount's combination of WYVERN, ARGUS Certified Charter Broker status, and its BBB and D&B ratings becomes a template that clients start expecting as a baseline rather than a differentiator.