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Aircraft Archive: Airbus A320
Values Of A318 Continue to Fall
With only 83 orders and 73 deliveries the appetite for the A318 is clearly limited though much better than for the B737-600. Even the departure of the B7347-600 and B717 from the competition ring did not lead to improved market conditions for the A318. With a virtually static order book…

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July 5, 2010
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Aircraft Asset Assessment: A318
Market Presence. As a member of the A320 family, technology is not an issue for the A318. Technical obsolescence will not feature for some years or at least until the A320 family is upgraded or replaced. The interior of the A318, providing a wider diameter than the competition, is already…

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July 5, 2010
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Used Simulator Values Face Contradictory Pressures
At a price of some $15 million a new simulator represents a sizeable investment for airlines and dedicated facilities such that orders for new simulators have been few in number in recent years. At a time when record deliveries of aircraft are being made, the number of new simulator deliveries…

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July 5, 2010
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Assumptions
The listing of current and future values are based on the year of build. The essential assumption is that the aircraft are being sold as a single unit and between a willing seller and willing buyer for cash. The high and low figures for April 30 th 2010 current values…

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June 21, 2010
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Improvement in Distressed Discounting Indicator of Recovery
Not All Aircraft See Reduction in Fire Sale Discounting The level of discounting being applied to current market values to achieve a sale within a very limited time frame has begun to ease as values approach the trough of the cycle. Airbus                           Apr-10 Jan-10 Apr-09 Jun-08 Jun-07 May-06 May-05 Apr-04…

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June 7, 2010
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New A320s Continue To Attract Values Approximating $40 million
With the relative improvement in the market conditions, there exists a temptation to consider increasing values, particularly for new examples, but such is the fragility and vulnerability of airline industry that any such move is premature. The planned and potential rise in production rates by Airbus and Boeing may be…

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June 7, 2010
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B737-800 Values Remain The Strongest
For the second downturn in a row the values of the B737-800 have remained among the strongest except that in contrast to the previous trough values have managed to fall by more than 25 percent. In late 2007, a 1998 B737-800LGW was worth nearly $33 million. Today the value more…

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June 7, 2010
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Aircraft Asset Assessment: B737-800
Market Presence. The design of the B737-800 still owes much to the original B737 of the 1960s. While Boeing has made considerable improvements to the basic design, the result is more of a comparable, rather than a more advanced product when compared to the A320 family. For once Boeing failed…

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June 7, 2010
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