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2011 Preowned Market Report

Large-cabin, long-range jet prices stabilized early; now older jets are getting buyer attention
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Preowned Market Showing Interesting Shifts

A few years ago at the NBAA show we witnessed more than 1,000 Dow points melt away during the three-day convention.
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Pre-owned Update: Bargain Prices Move ‘Classic’ Aircraft

While the pre-owned market has had to grind it out over the last couple of years to turn a deal, buyers have made a considerable dent in the number of choi

Pre-owned Update August 2011: Inventory shrinks but prices remain low

Though battered and bruised over the last few years by what seems like a daily barrage of negative global economic news, the pre-owned market participants

Pre-owned Update: Inventory shrinks, even as prices increase

Attractive pricing persists on many popular models despite a continued tightening of inventory to its lowest level since peaking less than two years ago. A

Pre-owned Update

The buying momentum that had been building during the fourth quarter of last year seems to be spilling into this year, as evidenced by a move lower in inve

Preowned Report

For more than a year, recovery mode in the pre-owned aircraft market has meant more an outflow than intake.
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Preowned Update: Inventory continues steady decline from last year’s record high

The eye-popping total of 2,750 pre-owned aircraft for sale today is a lot based on historical standards, but it is well below the peak reached a little mor

Preowned Update: Prices down from last year, but inventory remains stubborn

The used aircraft market often synchronizes its pace with the lazy days
of summer, usually resulting in a seasonal adjustment in activity.
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Buyers dipping more toes in pre-owned waters

Despite teetering over the abyss of economic collapse and having to overcome negative public perception surrounding corporate jet ownership, the used aircr
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Preowned Update: Latest signs point to a pre-owned market on the mend

While a year ago it seemed as if buyers were beginning to emerge from harsh winter hibernation, in fact inventory was still a few months away from reaching

Preowned Market '09

Surveyors of used aircraft entered the year with little else to do but cross fingers and hope that the market plunge brought to the doorstep of the New Yea

Preowned Report

Used aircraft prices have gone parabolic since last year, first launching to lofty heights only to arc back down to earth.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

The market has probably bottomed, but there are still some deals

The good news is that the bad news seems to have subsided for the time being and business aviation’s recent negative publicity served to make aircraft that

Pre-owned update

As used aircraft values got pummeled over the last few quarters, it seemed that the buyers had all but disappeared.

Pre-Owned update: Sellers finally seeing the price floor

The flow of used aircraft to the market is slowing fairly dramatically, and some may wonder if that’s because all the aircraft for sale are already on the
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

Prices adrift as inventory continues to flood the market

The standoff between buyers and sellers over the last six months is beginning to show some wear.
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Pre-owned Market ’08

Last year demand for pre-owned business jets and turboprops remained strong.

Buyers gain the advantage as more aircraft offered for sale

The summer doldrums in the pre-owned aircraft market have more often than not been followed by an upbeat seasonal period for aircraft sales, but that is no

Pre-owned market

The pre-owned market this year has been buoyed somewhat by a continuing flurry of international buying activity coupled with new aircraft backlogs, which b
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Cautious buyers hold out for price rationalization

While many expected 2008 to be one of the slowest summers in quite a while for the pre-owned market, foreign buying activity seems to have given the indust