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The King Air market makes sense again!
At first, it doesn’t seem like it to those of us who live and breathe the Beechcraft King Air market daily because we have had years of conditioning that created what we consider “normal.” But when you look at it logically, the market today makes more sense than ever before.
The “Old Normal”
The “old normal” had values for King Airs that had become very compressed, meaning that within both the individual model markets and the overall market, values were actually very close together.
The top of the market is obviously the perch of Beechcraft’s flagship aircraft, the King Air 350/360.
One of the oddest areas of market compression existed between the very popular King Air B200 and the King Air 350. A few years ago, it had reached a point where the King Air
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