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Aircraft Archive: Boeing B737-700
Fall in B737-600 Values Contrast with -800 Rise
With a paltry 69 orders, the values of the -600 have continued to decline. Values of the -600 were placed “On Watch” status nine years ago and to all intents, the variant has become marginalized such that existing operators will continue to be mainstay of the fleet for years to…

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November 8, 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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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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Sustained B737NG Production Could Herald Lower Pricing
Used Values Have Potential to be Impacted by Constrained Net Prices With Boeing increasingly averse to developing to a re-engining program to match the proposed NEO – New Engine Option – of Airbus, Boeing may have to resort to lower pricing to maintain production levels. The deliberations of both Airbus…

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September 27, 2010
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Aircraft Asset Assessment: B737-900ER
Market Presence. As a member of the B737NG family the fate of the -900ER is somewhat assured. The use of extra fuel tanks provides the range while the extra exits offers operators the necessary capacity to compensate for the higher weight - and cost. The extra tanks, which can be…

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September 27, 2010
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Stage is Set For Rise in Newer Narrowbody Values
With many of the parameters that precipitate a rise in values now in the right position, values are expected to emerge from their chrysalis and move outwards and upwards next year. With values of the narrowbodies in production having fallen by more than 20 percent since the start of the…

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September 13, 2010
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Re-engined A320 Would See “$8 million” Premium
With a decision on the New Engine Option – NEO – for the A320 expected within the coming months, Airbus has reportedly revealed that the new airframe/engine combination will cost $7-8 million more than the current model. The $7-8 million premium was reportedly indicated by John Leahy, the chief salesman…

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September 13, 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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