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U.S. Becomes Source of Demand for Older Aircraft But Values Still Decline
The U.S. continues to be an important source of demand for older aircraft but acquisition fails to be in sufficient quantity as to prevent a further fall in values. In the 1990s, in the midst of the downturn, the surfeit of older aircraft types were often forecast as heading for…

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September 13, 2010
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Value Convergence Looms As Product Life Cycles End
B767-300ER Likely to Become Latest to Suffer The values of those aircraft built at the latter end of the product life cycle continue to be most vulnerable to rapid residual value deterioration, particularly when compared to the price paid by the customer for such tail end examples. Once production of…

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August 30, 2010
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Lease Rates Start to Rise
Just as the fourth quarter of 2007 was considered to be point at which lease rentals started to falter, the second quarter of 2010 has become the point at which lease rentals have started to improve with those of some freighters perhaps experiencing an even earlier rise. The rise in…

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August 30, 2010
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Assumptions
This is the second comprehensive current and future lease rate table to be published by Aircraft Value News. The table will be published on an annual basis and complements the quarterly updates to specific aircraft categories. The table encompasses both current and future lease rentals. The methodology involved in calculating…

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August 30, 2010
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Dissipating Backlog of 130 Seaters Start to Impact Residuals
A319 & B737-700 Backlogs Fail to Match A320 and -800 Levels Operators of newer narrowbodies have increasingly focused on larger variants at the expense of the A319 and B737-700 such that the backlogs of both smaller variants have long since lost parity with the A320 and B737-800 making it necessary…

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August 16, 2010
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Asking Prices Start to Compare With Values
The number of aircraft being advertised for sale or lease is failing to abate but asking prices for used aircraft continue to be on the optimistic side. The asking prices remain just that – asking prices. The final price to be paid for an aircraft will likely be that much…

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August 16, 2010
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Disparate Behavoir Between Lease Rates and Values Still Evident
While lease rentals for the more popular models are showing signs of improvement, values for the very same types may still be experiencing a downward trend. Lease rentals for the more popular types dropped by more than 20 percent during the recent Great Recession but rates are improving once more.…

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August 16, 2010
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Storage of over 100 DC9s Irrelevant
With the acquisition of 22 Delta (Northwest) DC9s by GA Telesis for parting out, the final chapter of the type is being written. The values of the DC9 have been at rock bottom for many years. Even after Northwest spent millions of dollars in refurbishing the aircraft and improving the…

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August 16, 2010
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