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Aircraft Archive: Airbus
Freighter Market Continues to Exhibit Growth
The demand for airfreight continues to increase and more capacity has been brought back into service. The B747-400 freighters have in particular seen renewed service such that are only a few now laying idle. However, the fragility of the market ensures that interest in undertaking new conversions is limited although…

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August 16, 2010
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Values of the B757 Suffer Replacement Blues
The values of the B757 are at last beginning to experience a decline as operators look upon the advancing age of the type and consider alternatives. The type has thus benefitted from the number being converted to freighters and limited interest in replacements from traditional operators. However, with the finances…

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August 16, 2010
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Corporate Jet Values Take Time To Recover
Corporate jet values are edging up and out of recession but only ever so slowly and not with the degree of conviction that has been evident with past recovery periods. The latest J.P. Morgan survey of corporate jet availability for June 2010 saw a modest fall in the number of…

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August 2, 2010
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Surge in Turboprop Orders Underline Stable Values
Despite the changing nature of the turboprop orderbook, values of such aircraft as the ATR72-500 and Dash8Q-400 have exhibited considerable stability. While the values of virtually all jets have exhibited at least a 20 percent fall during this recession, the values of turboprops still in production have fallen by the…

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August 2, 2010
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First B737-600 To Be Scrapped Sold for “$11.25 Million”
The joint administrators of the defunct Globespan Group, the UK based airline and travel operator, had sought buyers for a B737-600 but could only find a buyer wishing to acquire the aircraft for parting out. The B737-600, serial number 28030, was originally built in April 1999. The aircraft was initially…

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August 2, 2010
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Aircraft Values Will Rise on Back of Strong Traffic Growth
The recovery in aircraft values will be largely be driven by the sustained rise in air traffic in the coming years and forecasts produced by ICAO suggest that such traffic will emerge. The most notable elements of the forecast from ICAO relate to the buoyant projections for the Middle East…

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August 2, 2010
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Lease Rentals Start to Rise
The much awaited occasion of the rise in lease rentals and therefore the recovery, is in evidence - at least for the newer aircraft types. Rentals are provided by The Aircraft Value Analysis Company www.aircraftvalues.net or www.aircraftvalues.com. Rates are quoted in thousands of US dollars per month and exclude maintenance…

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August 2, 2010
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Widebody Values Stable As Market Bottoms Out
The world economy may be experiencing a slight improvement with passenger traffic recovering but values have to overcome problems associated with storage, yields, finance, production rates, and lease rentals. Fortunately, with lease rentals beginning to rise there is growing evidence that values of most widebodies in production have bottomed out…

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August 2, 2010
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