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 […]
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