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Aircraft Archive: Airbus AIRCRAFT
Values Remain At Scrap Levels  
The combination of age, reliability and high fuel prices have continued to ensure that the DC10-30 has been displaced to the sidelines. The current fortunes of the B767-300ER hark back to the late 1980s when the rapid expansion of the international market, eagerness to participate in aircraft financing and delay…

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November 26, 2007
AVN
PMA Continues to Undermine Full-Life Maintenance Adjustments
With Delta and Chromally combining to produce parts for the CFM56-5 and CFM56-7 engines, the threat to traditional spares pricing continues to escalate, further undermining the value attributable to full-life maintenance status. Appraisers are increasingly being asked by financial institutions to add the dollar difference between half-life and full-life maintenance…

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November 26, 2007
AVN
Values Remain At Scrap Levels
The combination of age, reliability and high fuel prices have continued to ensure that the DC10-30 has been displaced to the sidelines. The current fortunes of the B767-300ER hark back to the late 1980s when the rapid expansion of the international market, eagerness to participate in aircraft financing and delay…

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November 26, 2007
AVN
Out of Production Widebody Values: Values Remain Fragile
With the price of fuel continuing to rocket to new highs, the appetite for the gas-guzzling leviathans of old continues to weaken. The combination of three-person flight decks, rising maintenance costs, lesser reliability and fuel consumption are all conspiring to ensure the demise of older widebodies. Remarketing increasingly has to…

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November 12, 2007
AVN
Chapter 2 Narrowbody Current Values: No Hiding Place for Chapter 2 Pricing
With the consideration of Chapter 5 and Chapter 6, the lack of attraction of Chapter 2 aircraft is all the more apparent. However, the dismissal of the Chapter 2 fleet per se is too easy. The more astute traders can still make money buying and selling the aircraft. There remain…

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November 12, 2007
AVN
Aircraft Value Review - B747-400: B747-400 Values Achieve Stability After Recent Surge
The last 18 months has seen a significant improvement in values and pricing of the B747-400 as a consequence of the delay in the service entry of the A380 as well as the demand for freighter feedstock. The development of the B747-8 however, finally draws a line under the production…

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November 12, 2007
AVN
ILFC A350 Order Offers Potential for Strong Residuals
ILFC appears to have finally designed the aircraft it always wanted and committed to an order for 20 A350s suggesting that the revised aircraft will possess the attributes for residual value strength. Though the final configuration and design of the A350 has yet to be determined, enough of the basics…

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November 12, 2007
AVN
Values of Dash8-400 Suffer Temporary Decline
SAS Grounding Likely to be Isolated Unless Authorities Step In The grounding of some 27 Dash8-400 examples by SAS has led to a temporary fall in the value of the type. The confirmation that the board of SAS has opted to withdraw the Dash8-400 is a significant event. Not only…

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November 12, 2007
AVN