The G650 was announced in 2008 and customer deliveries started 4th Quarter 2012. The aircraft had an initial cost new of $59.5M subject to CPI which brought the total to ~$65M. As of September 2016 s/n 6205 entered service bringing the total in-service to 206. Published list price for a new G650 / 650ER today […]
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Molly McMillin reports in The Weekly of Business Aviation: Some encouraging signs are coming from the business aircraft resale market, said Amstat, which tracks the market information. The number of business jet resale transactions rose 8.4 percent during the first six months of 2017, compared to the first half of 2016, with medium jet transactions […]
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Molly McMillin reports in The Weekly of Business Aviation: Forecast International says it expects annual business jet production to increase from 647 aircraft in 2017 to 799 in 2020. Production is projected to slightly decline in 2021 and 2022 due to cyclical economic factors and quickly rebound in 2023. Annual output is then expected to […]
Read More »Scoring a golf tournament based on par is relatively understandable to those who play the game on a particular course. Par is Latin for what the English rhetoric refers to as “average.” This is simple enough for the aviator’s number one leisure sport.Par in business aircraft activity is another story. One could list multiple concepts for par in […]
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Niche Markets Of the aircraft in the ~5000 nm mission, 3-zone cabin category (legacy Gulfstream G500, Global 5000, Falcon 7X), YOY inventory is on the rise, transactions remain flat and values continue to decline. When the 5000 and 500 entered service in 2002 and ’03 respectively, they were intended to fit a niche between the […]
Read More »The G650 was announced in 2008 and customer deliveries started 4th Quarter 2012. The aircraft had an initial cost new of $59.5M subject to CPI which brought the total to ~$65M. As of September 2016 s/n 6205 entered service bringing the total in-service to 206. Published list price for a new G650 / 650ER today […]
Read More »By Dennis Rousseau, founder and president of AircraftPost.com. This article was originally published in the Aircraft Bluebook Marketline Fall 2015 edition. In 2006, the average cost new for a Pro Line 4 equipped Lear 60 was ~$12.5M. In 2007 the Lear 60XR entered service with the Pro Line 21 avionics and an average cost new of […]
Read More »By Dennis Rousseau, founder and president of AircraftPost.com. This article was originally published in the Aircraft Bluebook Marketline Summer 2015 edition. During the last few years, AircraftPost has addressed many dynamics affecting the business jet market and specifically aircraft values. Our markets have changed dramatically since 2008. As we’re in our 7th year of ‘recovery’ […]
Read More »By Dennis Rousseau, founder and president of AircraftPost.com. This article was originally published in the Aircraft Bluebook Marketline Spring 2015 edition. At the end of each year we tally the number of aircraft delivered into service (EIS) by manufacturer and model. We then calculate the number of [pre-owned] aircraft, as a percentage of the fleet […]
Read More »By Dennis Rousseau, founder and president of AircraftPost.com. This article was originally published in the Aircraft Bluebook Marketline Winter 2014 edition. In 1999, a new Gulfstream GV sold for ~$39.5M. Considering a ‘useful life’ of 30 years and an average utility of 500 hours per year, a 1999 year model in 2014 (midlife/15 years) would be […]
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