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Aircraft Archive: Airbus
Attributing Half Life “Value” to Ageing Aircraft Fails to Reflect Reality
The far greater use of half to full life monetary adjustments has increased served to obscure the reality that affects ageing aircraft – that in the last quarter of the life of an aircraft, the concept of half-life loses its relevance. Understandably appraisers, ever since Mort Beyer and Jordan Greene…

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April 17, 2017
AVI
Used Prices Continue to Fall
The business jet market is entering something of a new market environment in view of the extending age profile of the existing fleet and the need to contemplate upgrades in the coming years. This will mean that a significant number of aircraft are over 20 years of age. To date,…

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April 17, 2017
AVI
Business Jet Market Sees Modest Improvement But Past Still Haunts Future
The aircraft manufacturers delivered 661 in 2016, 654 business jets in 2015, 722 in 2014 versus 678 in 2013. To date though there has been no notable improvement in terms of new orders. The modest increase reflects the introduction of new models and Honda. With delivery rates still being nearly…

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April 17, 2017
AVI
Master Appraisers Consider Inflationary Pressures on Used Values
The introduction of a 2.2 percent rise in Boeing’s list prices may seem to be something of an irrelevance due to the seemingly abstract nature of list prices when compared to market values but the rate at which net prices being paid for new aircraft play an important role in…

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April 17, 2017
AVI
Leasing Still Attracting New Players As Rates Mostly Remain Stable
Competition Intensifying Which Could Impact Rentals The profits being secured by the lessors continues to be between 15-20 percent thus underlining the continued relative attraction of aircraft leasing compared other asset classes such as shipping and real estate. The leasing of aircraft continues to increase despite as yet proven speculation…

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March 6, 2017
AVI
Values of Newer Turboprops Edge Downwards
The values of the latest turboprops have exuded an air of superiority over the last few years such has been their phoenix like rise from the ashes. The seeming appetite and prudence of operating turboprops is now being matched by the number of orders for new aircraft. While the increase…

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February 20, 2017
AVI
DAE ABS Transaction Reveals Resilient Values For Mid Life Aircraft
Standard & Poors Focusses on Maintenance Liability in Assessing Transaction Dubai Aerospace Enterprise has become the latest lessor to embrace the benefits of ABS transactions in generating cash through the creation of the 2017 Falcon Aerospace Ltd/Falcon Aerospace USA LLC ABS which is covered by 21 mostly mid life aircraft.…

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February 20, 2017
AVI
Widebody Rentals Achieve Some Stability
The airfreight market is managing to achieve a measure of improvement with traffic increasing by nearly four percent according to data from IATA which is allowing a measure of stability for some freighters. The growth for the world amounted to some 3.8 percent with the Middle East recording the greatest…

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February 20, 2017
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