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Aircraft Archive: Boeing B747-400
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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Widebody Lease Rates Rising
Air traffic continues to increase and more importantly so does premium traffic. The demand for widebodies continues to grow as passengers return to the market in numbers. The Asian segment shows notable growth. Operators depend on premium traffic for their profitability on the long haul sectors and demand in this…

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September 27, 2010
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B777-200F Values Nearly Return to Pre-Recession Levels
While values of passenger aircraft are struggling to emerge from the recession those of freighter aircraft are already experiencing an improvement. For more than twelve months between August 2008 and September 2009, airfreight experienced record falls. Inevitably, with so many freighter aircraft lying idle, values in the middle of 2009…

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September 13, 2010
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Assumptions
This is the second comprehensive current and future lease rate table to be published by Aircraft Value News. The table will be published on an annual basis and complements the quarterly updates to specific aircraft categories. The table encompasses both current and future lease rentals. The methodology involved in calculating…

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August 30, 2010
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Storage & Availability Head In Right Direction For Values
OAG Aviation data shows that the constraints to an improvement in values are being gradually shed such that the imbalance between supply and demand could the latter overtaking the latter. The statistics for July 2010 from OAG Aviation show that the level of availability, in terms of aircraft being actively…

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August 16, 2010
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Asking Prices Start to Compare With Values
The number of aircraft being advertised for sale or lease is failing to abate but asking prices for used aircraft continue to be on the optimistic side. The asking prices remain just that – asking prices. The final price to be paid for an aircraft will likely be that much…

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August 16, 2010
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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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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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