Expert Opinion
AINsight: New vs Preowned Gap Narrows for Bizjet Buyers
The delineation is shrinking between buying new and preowned business aircraft as high-quality inventory of the latter narrows.

At my business aircraft brokerage, we are starting to see a very positive gap narrowing between the contemplation of buying preowned or new. It has been over a decade now since the Great Recession, and many buyers have developed a very clear picture of the value of buying preowned over new in this period.

This not to say that OEMs haven't been having great sales years. They have. This is to say that now the delineation between new and preowned is shrinking, and it can be traced back to several factors. One being that the opportunity to buy really good, late-model preowned aircraft is now harder to accomplish, and the price between the two choices is narrowing.

Jay Mesinger
AIN Contributor
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Jay Mesinger is the CEO and Founder of Mesinger Jet Sales, an international aircraft brokerage firm, and has been regularly contributing to AIN since 2018.

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