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Archive: Rotorcraft Top Stories
Cityline Cuts Highlight Concerns Over 50 Seaters
With the fall in the price of oil to around $50 a barrel, the 50 seat regional jets seemed to have been saved from a premature end but airlines have become conscious of the risk associated with operating the type in a high fuel cost environment. Values of the 50…

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December 8, 2008
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Lease Rates Stutter
Rentals for Newer Aircraft Start to Falter The focus of the current downturn has, to date, been on the decline in values but lease rentals of virtually all aircraft are also facing adverse pressures, though perhaps still of a relatively modest nature. There has been a raft of corporate failures…

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December 8, 2008
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Airbus List Prices Set To Fall?
While the relevance of list prices to actual net prices has long since passed, changes are still of interest, particularly when prices are increased due to specific events. Earlier in 2008 Airbus cited factors that warranted adding a further $2 million to the list price of narrowbodies and $4 million…

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December 8, 2008
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Distressed Sale Discounting Rises
Leasing & Storage Offer Better Options The increasing depth of the seeming now global economic recession, combined with still restricted funding, is causing sufficient anxiety for financial institutions to once again consider the possibility of distressed sale pricing. The last aviation specific downturn seven years ago saw distressed sale values…

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November 24, 2008
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B747-8F Delay Will Benefit B747-400F Values
The much expected delay to the service entry of the B747-8F will do little to improve the values of the new aircraft but should provide some reassurance for values of the current B747-400F. The fall in cargo traffic has meant that demand for airfreight capacity has lost much of its…

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November 24, 2008
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FAA Statement on Validity of PMA Parts Fails to Settle Value Issue
The statement in August by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that the use of PMA parts is valid provides some reassurance that the value of engines containing non-original equipment manufactured (OEM) should not be subject to significant discounting. The FAA statement concerning PMA parts is emphatic and unusual. The FAA…

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November 24, 2008
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Freighter Rentals Continue to Face Weakness
Weakness in the air cargo market is usually the first sign of problems in the world economy. The cargo market has therefore been suffering for nearly a year. The shortfall in demand in the run up to the Beijing Olympics earlier in the years merely obscured more fundamental issues. The…

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November 24, 2008
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The End is Nigh for Stage 2 Values
The placement of a value on an aircraft implies that the type has some degree of relevance to the market, that it can be marketed to others. However, for the majority of Chapter 2 aircraft, any value mostly resides with the operator. Seeking to sell the aircraft for cash was…

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November 24, 2008
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