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Aircraft Archive: McDonnell Douglas
Used Values Avoid Problems of 1980s When Fuel Prices Also Collapsed
The values of used aircraft should be enjoying the most significant exponential increase in nearly 30 years but all the indications are that values will at best remain stable with further modest falls the most likely scenario. With list prices failing to increase in 2016 this suggests that escalation being…

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By: Aircraft Value News
January 25, 2016
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Semi-Annual Jet Aircraft Value Listing
Used Widebody Values Suffer But Aircraft Ratings Largely Stable The demand for new aircraft remains unprecedented with the manufacturers increasing production but values of such new aircraft have failed to rise and even a rise in U.S. interest rates has had little positive effect on lease rentals. The world economy…

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By: Aircraft Value News
January 11, 2016
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Aircraft Asset Assessment
B747-400F Market Presence. The net effect of changing market structure is to see a large number of B747-400F freighters remaining in storage some of which have already been parked for a long time. Out of a fleet of approximately 230 B747-400F and B747-400 converted freighters, there are around 40 in…

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By: Aircraft Value News
December 14, 2015
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Half to Full Maintenance Adjustment Rise
While the airframe manufacturers seem unable to make significant gains in net pricing on their aircraft even in the midst of the prevailing strongest of markets, the cost of maintaining aircraft continues to increase forcing the half to full adjustment ever higher. Many lease agreements in existence today require the…

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By: Aircraft Value News
December 14, 2015
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Values Continue to Exhibit Age Related Decline
As passenger traffic has risen, the demand for new aircraft has been such that Airbus and Boeing have increased production. The rise in traffic however has become increasingly capacity driven whereby the availability of more seats has generated ever more passenger demand. To fill aircraft, fares have had to become…

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By: Aircraft Value News
December 14, 2015
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Values of the -400F Continue to Decline
The fall in the price of fuel will provide some stimulus for airfreight as well as allowing the B747-400F to be more economical in the short term. The B747-400ERF/-400F/-400SF/-400BCF is a versatile aircraft that offers considerable advantages over the -200F and therefore superseded the earlier B747 freighter. The -400F has…

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By: Aircraft Value News
December 14, 2015
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“Whitetails” As B747-8F Values Continue to Decline
The strength of aviation continues to elude the airfreight segment as the Boeing seemingly has built B747-8F aircraft for which now no end-user exists thereby contributing to the perceived weakness of values for the type. The production of whitetails – whereby an aircraft is manufactured for which no end customer…

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By: Aircraft Value News
December 14, 2015
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EETC Market Gains Momentum
Stable Values for Newer Types Attracts Investors Such is the strength of the aviation market in terms of traffic, airline profitability and aircraft delivery rates that finance has become much more readily available, helping to fuel further growth with the EETC structure once again providing a means for investors to…

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By: Aircraft Value News
December 14, 2015
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