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Aircraft Archive: Boeing B747-400
B777-300ER Values Rise While Others Fall
The weakness of the wider market means that the values of the majority passenger aircraft are actually falling but this is not the case for the B777-300ER. Despite the many adverse pressures affecting the market, the -300ER has established itself as the most desirable of widebodies, aided of course by…

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January 16, 2012
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A300-600R Values Face Sustained Downward Pressure
The values of the A300-600R are facing the same fate as the A300-600 as operators move increasingly to newer types. The A300-600R, at least as a passenger aircraft has not been manufactured for nearly a decade, with the last freighter being delivered in 2007. The values of the -600R failed…

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December 5, 2011
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Widebody Rentals Remain Stable
The widebody sector is beginning to show signs of connection with the wider economic malaise which results in part from the lack of decision action from the leaders of the Eurozone. The lease rentals of most widebodies previously managed to improve over the course of the last eighteen months largely…

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December 5, 2011
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Values of A340 Continue to Fall as end of Production Announced
High Fuel Prices & Greater Engine Reliability Force Pace of Change The values of the A340 have been experiencing a sustained fall for some time and the absence of any notable order intake in recent years has inevitably caused Airbus to wind up the ailing program. The decision to no…

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November 21, 2011
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Values of B747-400SF/-BCFs Expected to Improve Next Year
The values of the B747-400 have once again fallen to levels that make their acquisition for freighter conversion that much more economic. Nearly a decade ago Aircastle took advantage of the much reduced prices of B747-400s resulting from investors seeking to exit aircraft financing as quickly as possible. Relatively young…

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November 7, 2011
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C919 Order Book Swells As Values Begin to be Assessed
The launch of the B737MAX and the development of the A320neo inevitably focus attention on Western products but China continues to secure interest for its indigenous C919 such that values will soon have to be calculated for the type. Comac has just announced that a further 65 orders have been…

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November 7, 2011
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Asking Prices Continue to Remain Optimistic
The prices being asked of aircraft continues to be in the mainly optimistic, particularly for newer aircraft types, though those being quoted for older aircraft are more in line with expectations. A total of seven A300-600s, built between 1993 and 1996, have an asking price of $12 million each which…

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October 24, 2011
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Values of B777Fs Remain Stable
While the airfreight sector begins to appreciate that the weakness of the global economy will continue to place pressure on yields as traffic stagnates, the sustained appetite for the B777F is notable as is the ability of values to resist the downward pressure that is affecting so many other freighter…

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October 24, 2011
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