Rotorcraft
Single-engine Helicopter Market Stable, Supply Climbs
Aero Asset’s annual report noted a four-year peak in supply in Q4 2024
Aero Asset retail single-engine helicopter sales activity
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Aero Asset's newly released "Heli Market Trends 2024 Annual Report: Single-Engine" details stable retail sales of turbine single-engine helicopters last year but rising supply. Compared with 2023, average transaction prices rose 4% year over year (YOY) and average days on market inched up 2%.

According to Aero Asset, the Airbus Helicopters AS350B3/B3e/H125 was the most liquid model in the turbine-single helicopter preowned market last year, followed by the Bell 407/GX/P/I. The least liquid was the Airbus EC130B4/H130T2, which has an absorption rate of 1.5 years. Average absorption rate for preowned helicopters in this segment climbed to 12 months “at current trade levels.”