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Aircraft Archive: Bombardier
Heavy Business Jet Values Fail to Avoid Falls
The business jet market has suffered ever since the peak of deliveries in 2008 and even though the heavy jets seemingly enjoyed a temporary recovery there can be no disguising how the metrics of the market segment have undergone an irrevocable change. In the period 2006-2008 prices of business jets…

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March 21, 2016
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Fokker 100 Values Face the Abyss
Having experienced a modest recovery a few years, values of the Fokker 100 have once again fallen such that this is likely to be last time the type is covered in Aircraft Value News. The market for the Fokker 100 has experienced a variety of fortunes over the course of…

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March 21, 2016
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Engine Values of Newer Aircraft Hold Firm
There is a generally held perception that engines hold their value much better than the airframes they power and though values of the older generation engines are suffering, the values of mid-life engines are indeed remaining reasonably stable. Though engines do hold their value through to their mid-life, they also…

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March 21, 2016
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CSeries Values Remain Static Despite Air Canada Order
Despite the commitment of Air Canada to order a potential 75 CSeries aircraft and the service entry of in the coming months, the values of the type remain under pressure. The Air Canada commitment for 45 firm orders and 30 options, due for delivery in the 2016-2022 time frame, represents…

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March 7, 2016
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Values of Turboprops Remain Stable Despite Fuel
The lower price of fuel, which should seemingly allow operators to fly regional jets more efficiently, has not had an impact on the values of turboprops as demand for used equipment remains robust. The turboprop market is one that is largely ignored by the air transport community primarily as the…

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March 7, 2016
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Lease Encumbered Values Take On New Significance
Transactions Increasingly Focus on Attached Lease As the number of aircraft traded on a standalone basis diminishes, aircraft values are increasingly needing to assess the value of the attached lease – the Lease Encumbered Current Market Value (LECMV) or Securitized Value (SV). The number and more importantly, the proportion of…

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March 7, 2016
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Mid Life Widebodies Gain From Lower Fuel Price
The low price of fuel, albiet at the expense of a stronger dollar, has provided a fillip to the values of the mid life widebodies. The cost of fuel represents a major portion of direct operating costs for any operator, all the more so with used aircraft. Used aircraft typically…

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February 22, 2016
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Pratt PW1100G Problems Not Likely to Impact Values - Yet
The problems being experienced by Pratt & Whitney with the PW1100G, which has seen Lufthansa becoming the launch operator instead of Qatar, is not likely to have an impact on values of any of the specific airframe/engine combinations - unless consistent and significantly less than average reliability materializes during in-service…

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February 22, 2016
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