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Textron is no longer manufacturing the King Air 90 series aircraft; its pricing on the used market is elevated but stabilized. (Credit: Michael Coleman)
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divided by major model groups and also by age. Thankfully, we don’t see any issues that will taint the entire market – not supply chain problems and parts availability or concerns about dispatch reliability. The vulnerable King Air remains solid.
So, where are we today?
The question I get asked most often is, “What is going to happen with King Air prices?”
I wish I knew; I mean really knew! The reality is, it is no more possible to predict what aircraft values will do in the future than it is to predict what the stock market will do, but we can read the tea leaves and plan accordingly.
So, to answer the question, are the current prices going to remain this high? Yes, I believe they are at least for newer airplanes. In fact, they may even go up more. We do not see any signs that prices are going to drop. With a steady increase in demand and limited inventory, the best we can hope for is stability. We’re already there for the late model 90 and 200 series King Airs (more on this later).
As I mentioned earlier, the King Air market is really divided among models, the 90 series, 200 series and 350 series being the most common. You then have the “late models,” the “legacy models” and the “old models.” It hasn’t been that long ago that I would have said that the older and legacy airplanes were in the ›
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