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A few years ago at the NBAA show we witnessed more than 1,000 Dow points melt away during the three-day convention.

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

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

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

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

For more than a year, recovery mode in the pre-owned aircraft market has meant more an outflow than intake.

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

The used aircraft market often synchronizes its pace with the lazy days of summer, usually resulting in a seasonal adjustment in activity.

Despite teetering over the abyss of economic collapse and having to overcome negative public perception surrounding corporate jet ownership, the used aircr

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

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

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

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

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

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

The standoff between buyers and sellers over the last six months is beginning to show some wear.

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

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

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

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

The market for Gulfstream hush kits stands at fewer than 400 GIIs, GIITTs, GIIBs and GIIIs.

The thought that the market for new and used corporate aircraft as well as corporate aviation itself may very well be the innocent beneficiary of terrorism

Nearly 20 years ago, The New York Times ran a headline that read “Business May Cut Back, but Not on Its Private Jets.” The header on the next page read, “C

The sales inventory of pre-owned corporate jets has nearly doubled in two years, according to statistics obtained from JetNet of Utica, N.Y.

In July 1998 there were 750 used jets for sale and today there are more than 2,000.

After gold hit $1,000 an ounce last month and oil reached $110 a barrel on the same day, financial markets continued to experience the turmoil that started

A snippet in the Wall Street Journal in the middle of last month pointed out that the Dow Jones Industrial Average began the new year by logging its worst

The Santa Ana winds wrapped their unseasonable warmth around attendees at the Southern California NBAA Business Aviation Forum & Static Display held in

Some markets that have refused to pick up thus far, despite attractive pricing, might finally spark buyer interest this year.

As we embark on the final and historically most active quarter of the year, buyer activity by most accounts seems to be building steam.