




Business & Commercial Aviation
|Business jet deliveries to the Middle East are expected to total nearly 200 aircraft over the next decade, according to data from the Aviation Week Network, with 12 deliveries in 2019 rising to 20 in 2028. The top deliveries through the 10-year period from 2019 through 2028 are expected to be...
By Dennis Rousseau | President and Founder | AircraftPost
After all the conjecture and speculation throughout the year, 2018 finished with mixed results. Some market dynamics fared better than others and a few select make/models showed a modest uptick in YOY value. Excluding VLJs and modified airliners, new business jet deliveries (entry- into-service) slipped from 471 in 2017 (3,927 total aircraft) to 467 in 2018 (4,393). The number of current production aircraft that came on the pre-owned market nearly mirrored those that entered service, showing 471 aircraft on market in 2017 and...
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Business & Commercial Aviation
|In the mid-1990s, Raytheon Aircraft’s Roy Norris was fond of saying the $5 million composite fuselage RA 390 Premier light jet would have a cabin cross section “embarrassingly close” to that of an $8 million midsize aircraft. Indeed, headroom is only 3 in. less that of Citation Excel and the cabin is nearly as wide. The development program suffered repeated delays. Initial entry into service was delayed until 2001. And then, the aircraft fell short of customer expectations in several areas, including runway performance, erratic lift dump functioning, poor brake feel and...
All of the aircraft included in the aircraft segment graphs on the following pages have a composite score that is presented in the Used Aircraft Market graph. Data points are represented in relationship to the respective new delivered historical price that is equal to 100%. The measure of change is...
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