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Aircraft Archive: Airbus AIRCRAFT
Values & Rentals Experience Downward Pressures
The previous exceptional demand for the B767-300ER has waned such that during the course of the last eighteen months, values have fallen by more than twenty percent. The delay to the B787 however, continues to see obscure the inevitable, at least for some. With production stretching back for more than…

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October 25, 2010
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Aircraft Asset Assessment: B767-300ER
Market Presence. The B767-300ER presented the operating leasing community with the ideal tool with which to enter the widebody operating lease arena. Throughout the 1990s and then again in the last decade, the B767-300ER enjoyed considerable success but then fell victim to the usual problem of lengthy production and market…

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October 25, 2010
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E-Jet Values & Lease Rates Hold Up on Used Market
The regional jet market, so long dominated by the activities and support of the OEMs, has broken free of such shackles and has proven arms-length trading can take place at pricing levels that actually match current market values and lease rentals. Although the first of the new generation of E-Jets…

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October 25, 2010
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Engine Values Achieve Stability After Period of Significant Falls
Newer Engines in Demand With Lease Rentals Tightening Engine values have greater resilience over time than the airframes they power but even engine values suffered during the recent recession. The peak in engine values occurred during the first half of 2008 when the financial markets in particular, were seeking products…

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October 25, 2010
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PW1000G Raises Issue of Full Life Adjustments
With increased emphasis on full life adjustments for both new and used transactions, the arrival of the Pratt & Whitneys’ PW1000G raises the prospect of lower full life adjusted values. The basic architecture of the PW1000G depends on a lesser number of life limited parts. This reduction in the number…

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October 25, 2010
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Residuals Prepare for Different Product Line in Ten Years
Rising Production Rates for Current Models Fail to Mask Pressure on Residuals By the end of this decade the product lines of the manufacturers will have undergone a radical change causing long term market values of current offerings to experience significant change. Virtually all segments of the current product offerings…

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October 11, 2010
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Out of Production Widebodies Continue to Suffer
The lease rates of the older widebodies are largely managing to maintain stable even if the number in storage and being parted out remains high. The only way that lease rentals will rise is if the lease term is shorter and if the financial standing of the lessee weakens still…

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October 11, 2010
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Turboprop Values Feature Stability
Turboprop values have achieved a measure of stability after the recession caused a temporary shortfall in orders. The problems associated with a fall in orders during the Great Recession have receded with the manufacturers gearing up production once more. The arrival of new derivatives, in the form of the Dash8Q-400NG…

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October 11, 2010
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