Aircraft Value News [March 1, 2021] -

Issue: March 1, 2021

Airfreight Allows Values to Rise

In all the negativity surrounding the Covid Event, airfreight remains one of the few positives such that values have actually increased for many freighter types over the last year and the B747-8F is no exception. Boeing launched the B747-8F on November 14, 2005, with firm orders for 18 B747-8 Freighters;…

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March 1, 2021

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Aircraft Ratings On Cusp Of Improvement

The latest update to The Aircraft Value Analysis Company’s (AVAC www.aircraftvalues.net) Aircraft Ratings indicates that there has been little change in the last six months due to the continued constraints of the Covid Event on travel but there are some indications that Ratings of some aircraft may rise in the…

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March 1, 2021

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Recovery Focuses on Newer Types

The values of the newer narrowbodies fell by a significant amount due to Covid – between 15-20 percent – but have the ability to recover first. Demand is increasingly becoming segmented with the newer types and younger examples most in demand and featuring lesser storage levels. Even the values of…

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March 1, 2021

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Turboprop Rentals Start to Climb - Slowly

Much is made of the resilience of the turboprop market but this may be more perceived than actual as aircraft remain in storage in numbers. With traffic still being evident in domestic and regional markets, it is sometimes assumed that the regional market in terns of turboprops, has somehow managed…

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March 1, 2021

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Future Recedes Year by Year As Boeing Pursues “B797” Green Light

Residual Values of A321 Competitor Risk Rapid Decline To paraphrase F Scott Fitzgerald from the concluding page of the Great Gatsby “Boeing had come a long way and their dream must have seemed so close that they could hardly fail to grasp it. They did not know that it was…

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March 1, 2021

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Grounding of PW4000 B777’s Has Potential to Impact Already Weak Values

The grounding of the Pratt & Whitney powered B777’s may affect values of the airframe / engine combination should the problem become a more permanent issue. Some 140 B777-200/-200ERs powered by the PW4000s were available for service prior to the uncontained engine failure. However, 85 were already in storage due…

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March 1, 2021

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Defunct TAME Ecuador Seeks to Sell Aircraft At Discount

TAME Ecuador suspended operations in March 2020 but the government liquidated the carrier in May 2020 and now the aircraft are up for sale. The aircraft are in storage. The aircraft involved include a 2011 ATR42-500 MSN 844 which has an indicated value of $3.35 million; ATR42-500 MSN 849, also…

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March 1, 2021

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Value of New B737-800’s Fail to Increase Over 20 Years

The Covid Event has inevitably caused values of the few remaining newly delivered B737-800s to exhibit a significant fall, but values of new examples have barely risen since the type was first introduced in 1998. The value of a new B737-800 – the value reflecting the immediate onward sale of…

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March 1, 2021

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