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Aircraft Archive: McDonnell Douglas
Mid Life Narrowbody Values Fail to Advance
The recovery was well underway in the narrowbody segment but it was all too evident that the focus was on newer aircraft with the lessors reporting that slots for 2022 and even 2023 were already taken. This leaves the mid-life aircraft vulnerable to the sporadic nature of the recovery such…

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By: Aircraft Value Intelligence
December 6, 2021
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Values of B747-8I Fall Into Abyss
Even before Covid the values of the B747-8 were imploding and as such the pandemic has merely made the obvious all too painfully obvious – that the B747-8 was another failure for Boeing just as much as the B757-300 and B767-400. The B747-8 was designed to be the first lengthened…

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By: Aircraft Value Intelligence
December 6, 2021
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Aircraft Asset Assessment - B747-8I
Market Presence. The development of the B747-8I improved the operating economics of the type but with the move towards twins and a changing market structure this was not enough to induce replacement orders for the -400. There is little to commend the -8I and the availability of such an aircraft…

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By: Aircraft Value Intelligence
December 6, 2021
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Turboprop Residuals Take Account of New Models
The values – both current and future - of turboprops have been able to enjoy a measure of reasonable stability for a decade or more partly because of the absence of any major changes to the product line but with Embraer seeking to enter this segment of the market and…

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By: Aircraft Value Intelligence
December 6, 2021
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Baseline Lease Rental Terms Start to Return to “Normal”
The LRM (Lease Rental Matrix), which determines the average lease length and the adjustment to quoted lease rentals to reflect longer or shorter terms, has seen an improvement over the last six months as traffic has improved. Lease terms can vary considerably and are to a large extent dependent on…

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By: Aircraft Value Intelligence
November 22, 2021
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Reducing Storage Aids Regional Jet Rentals
The market for regional jets over the course of the eighteen months has been geocentric with the U.S. fleet notably employed while others have languished in storage. Storage alone does not necessarily dictate lease rentals but it does provide evidence as to potential demand and the ability of lessors to…

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By: Aircraft Value Intelligence
November 22, 2021
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Freighter Values At Their Peak
The airfreight market continues to enjoy strong growth with cargo traffic being some nine percent higher than the same period in 2019. When compared to September 2020 traffic is some 15 percent greater. The demand for airfreight, as detailed above, continues to show sustained growth not least because of some…

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By: Aircraft Value Intelligence
November 22, 2021
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B787-8 Values Fail to Recover from Covid
The market for the B787-8 remains muted and there is every expectation that in constrast to other widebodies in production, even values of new exmaples will have difficulty in being restored to pre-Covid levels for a number of years. During the late 1990s, Boeing began considering replacement aircraft programmes as…

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By: Aircraft Value Intelligence
November 22, 2021
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