Pre-Owned Update: Pre-owned aircraft market remains strong
Activity in the used jet sector continues to thrust ahead as another year-over-year decline in inventory served to strengthen prices among a number of mode

Activity in the used jet sector continues to thrust ahead as another year-over-year decline in inventory served to strengthen prices among a number of models and appears poised to continue. During the last two years the used inventory averaged a 155 net decline and stands at 1,730 as AIN goes to press, a figure it hasn’t seen in four years.

It’s no secret that late-model and current production aircraft accounted for much of that activity, but with many of these models in scarce supply and with prices tilting higher, a number of buyers are considering some of the older alternatives. Various regulation compliance deadlines for requirements such as RVSM and TAWS may have also revived interest in some older models, as the unknowns of cost and the hassle of downtime have been resolved for much of the fleet with the passage of these deadlines.