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Aircraft Archive: Airbus
Values of Newer Engines Healthiest
Market forces can contain market pricing. The rise in engine spares for example makes it more attractive to cannibalize relatively young aircraft. Such high values for engines can be a temporary phenomenon as was so aptly demonstrated in the late 1990s when values of JT8Ds more than doubled due to…

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December 15, 2014
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Regional Jet Values Fail to Advance
The values of most regional jets are now seeing a period of stability though the 70 seaters are perhaps facing new pressures. Values are in Millions of US Dollars and are based on The Aircraft Value Reference published by The Aircraft Value Analysis Company www.aircraftvalues.net www.aircraftvalues.com. An Aircraft Rating has…

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December 15, 2014
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Return Condition Adjustments Continue to Contribute to Lessors Bottom Line
Values of aircraft are increasingly being enhanced by the use of full life maintenance status, making the potential profit for owners that more attractive. Traditionally, aircraft have been valued on a half-life basis except that those examples less than four years of age were valued at better than half life.…

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December 15, 2014
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A320neo Residuals Set to Change as PIP for PW1100G Arrives in 2019
Revealed earlier this year, the significant Performance Improvement Package (PIP) on the Pratt & Whitney on the PW1100G powering the A320neo family may be arriving by the end of the decade such that a decision has to be made on whether to discount the non-PIP engines or add a premium…

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December 15, 2014
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Distressed Value Discounting Increasing for Older Types
While a sustained reduction in the price of fuel may eventually lead to improved market fortunes for the older aircraft, for the time being there remains a need to greatly incentivize pricing should there be a need to dispose of the aircraft within a short period of time. The level…

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December 15, 2014
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Delta A350/A330 Order Sees “Strategic” Pricing
The order for 25 A350-900s and 25 A330-900neos from Delta was a competition that Airbus wanted to win and the discounts secured by the US carrier would have been substantial. In September 2013 Delta placed orders for 30 A321s and ten higher gross weight A330-300s. This earlier order reportedly saw…

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December 1, 2014
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Values of A321-100 So Low Parting Out Becomes Option
Even though demand for the A321 is outstripping supply the appetite for the A321-100 continues to be sufficiently sporadic as to prompt parting out. As the first variant of the A321 to be produced, and soon to be superseded by the -200, its values were always likely to be under…

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December 1, 2014
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Aircraft Asset Assessment: B767-300
Market Presence. The values of passenger configured B767-300ERs have fallen to a level that make their acquisition for freighter conversion a practical proposition. The price of the aircraft needs to be below $10-15m in order to provide a realistically priced alternative to those existing cargo aircraft. Those –300ERs built at…

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December 1, 2014
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