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Aircraft Archive: Airbus AIRCRAFT
Production Rate Increases Likely to Impact Value Recovery
Despite concerns that a higher delivery rate will delay the recovery of values and lease rentals, both Airbus and Boeing have announced an intention to increase production of narrowbodies. The rise in production is at odds with a lack luster orderbook for 2010 from both manufacturers but both cite demand…

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March 29, 2010
AVN
Two Categories of Aircraft See Divergent Value Behavior
Values of aircraft in production and those out of production are experiencing different fortunes such that any recovery of the latter category will be much more muted. While the behavior of out of production aircraft has traditionally differed from those in production, the values of those aircraft out of production…

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March 29, 2010
AVN
Republic’s CS300 Order Increases Pressure on Residuals
Residual Values Need To Reflect Change in Product Line IN THIS ISSUE: AVN’S SEMI-ANNUAL TURBOPROP VALUE LISTING The firm order for 40 Bombardier CS300s – and 40 options - increases the pressure on Airbus and Boeing to develop an upgrade to existing products but such a move is beginning to…

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March 15, 2010
AVN
Power by the Hour Arrangements Dominate
With the leasing of the older widebodies becoming much difficult, lessors are increasingly having to turn to power by the hour arrangements. Power by the hour arrangements was coined by Rolls-Royce more than 20 years ago to reflect performance based contracts for engines. The number of hours flown by the…

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March 15, 2010
AVN
Turboprop Values Experience only Modest Decline
Values of turboprops have been exposed to lesser value volatility than the jet sector but the decline over the last year is still evident, more particularly for the older variants. The development of the Dash8Q-400NG and the ATR72-600 has not represented major changes to existing models but they have prevented…

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March 15, 2010
AVN
First Flight of B747-8F Fails to Inspire Values
“No One is Buying $250 Million (747-8I) Machines” The first flight of the B747-8F on the 8 th February, some 41 years after the original B747 first flew in 1970, represents a major boost for Boeing coming on the heels of the B787 but with the airfreight market having contracted…

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March 1, 2010
AVN
B737 Classic Values Continue to be Undermined but Market Not Illiquid
Values of B737 Classics continue to be depressed despite demand still being evident from Eastern European and Russian operators. The values of the B737-300/-400 and -500 have continued to deteriorate over recent months, adding to the declines seen since the peak of the market in 2007. The values of a…

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March 1, 2010
AVN
B787-9 Values Start to be Assessed on Expectation of Range Parity With -8
With values of the initial batch of B787-8s having suffered as a result of manufacturing difficulties and a recession, values of the B787-9 are expected to perform much better – assuming that the range of the new variant at least matches that of the baseline model. The configuration of the…

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March 1, 2010
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