I am on a flight home from New York after a successful few days showing our Gulfstream IV and our Falcon 900B to two different buyers. And, I’ve been thinking about conversations I have had this week with many different buyers and brokers regarding what determines real value and what distinguishes real value between two competitive...
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Archive for June, 2010
Real Value
Pre-Purchase Planning, Part 4 – Log Books and Records
Never enough can be said here. Prior to the aircraft leaving for pre purchase “all” records should be itemized with a very detailed inventory list. Boxes of some sort should be used to hold all historical records and these should be identified in some manner and shown on the inventory list by number (could...
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Responsiveness
I am writing you today from a hotel room in New Jersey as I prepare to go to the NBAA Regional Forum at the Teterboro Airport. My father will be speaking today about the future of aircraft values. It should be an exciting day. NBAA has approximately 1,600 pre-show registrations sold setting a new...
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“MSP doesn’t allow us to boroscope the engines.”
I cannot tell you how many times in the course of a year I hear that statement from a maintenance facility; many times from the same facility and same person within a period of a couple of months about different aircraft. That statement is not exactly true and should be completely understood by the...
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