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Aircraft Archive: Airbus AIRCRAFT
United Airlines EETC Show Bullish Values
The United Airlines 2015-1 EETC of November 2015 continued to show strong values for the B737-900ER from three appraisers. The United Airlines EETC comprises six newer B737-900ERS delivered between August and October 2015 as well as four B787-9s delivered between September and November 2015. The aggregate appraised value of the…

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June 13, 2016
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Lease Rentals Continue to Focus on Newer Types
For the last five years, lessors have preferred to focus on the new turboprops which offer lesser risk and the prospect of greater returns. The older turboprops tend to be acquired via more traditional financing methods than the operating lease. Seeking to write down the capital cost is therefore more…

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June 13, 2016
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Aircraft Asset Assessment The ERJ145
Market Presence. Part of the structure of the ERJ145 can be traced to the successful EMB120 Brasilia. The airframe is therefore something of a known quantity in terms of being able to cope with the short sector lengths. The ability of the regional jets to offer a similar service life…

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June 13, 2016
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Concept of “Half to Full Life” Fluid As Aircraft Move Pass Mid Life
For many years it has become the norm for investors and lessors to add a dollar amount to compensate for an aircraft being returned in full life or via a monetary adjustment but as an aircraft ages it becomes ever more impractical to consider that an aircraft will actually be…

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May 30, 2016
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Service Entry of B777X Creeps into This Decade Potentially Impacting -300ER
With Boeing indicating that service entry could be effected in the last months of 2019 instead of the first quarter of 2020 the residual values of the existing B777-300ER will need to be carefully assessed in the near term. The difference of a few months to the service entry of…

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May 30, 2016
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Values of A320neo Spare Engines Begin to Crystallize
While the delivery schedule for the A320neo is in some disarray due to the problems being resolved by Pratt & Whitney with respect to the PW1100G GTF engine, the large number of customers and the planned acceleration in delivery rates for the type means that there is an increasing need…

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May 30, 2016
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Bombardier CRJ Series Values Face Tough Times As Backlog Falls
With a dwindling order backlog, the values of the CRJ series of products are falling with nothing to act as brake. The list prices of the CRJ700 amount to $41 million for the CRJ700; $46 million for the CRJ900 and $49 million for the CRJ1000. This compares with values of…

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May 30, 2016
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Values of the B737-900 Continue to Fall
With four of the 52 -900s that were eventually delivered in storage the market for the type is extremely adverse and values and there can be no escaping that the type was a failure in concept. The B737-900 was launched in November 1997, some four years after the -700 was…

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May 30, 2016
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