BeechTalk - BT - Aircraft inventory levels are critically low.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 16 Apr 2025, 15:41

Username Protected wrote:

We lost Mike C.

Analog electronics have no future.
The MU-2 is inherently unsafe.
Citation Vs cost a fortune to run.

There, that should do it. It's like saying "Beetlejuice" 3 times.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Apr 2025, 08:43

Username Protected wrote:

We lost Mike C.

Analog electronics have no future.
The MU-2 is inherently unsafe.
Citation Vs cost a fortune to run.

There, that should do it. It's like saying "Beetlejuice" 3 times.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Apr 2025, 17:06

he has a history of tuning in & out

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Apr 2025, 22:37

This thread reminds me of uncle Joe’s response to the query at his 75th wedding anniversary. Good old uncle Joe had been married to the same woman since they were both 20 years old. They had numerous children, grandchildren and even great grandchildren in attendance at their celebration, which included a nice buffet dinner, dancing and drinking. As the evening wore on, one of the daughters in law grabbed the microphone and asked Joe for the secret to such a long marriage. Joe replied without hesitation “The Bitch Won’t Die!”

Username Protected · **Posted:** 19 Apr 2025, 10:24

I think this thread lives on because we’re still in the situation that inspired me to start it back in August of 2021, a situation most people thought would be temporary.

It’s also kept alive because of a few people who don’t like me.

Username Protected wrote:

I've been doing this a long time and I have never seen used (or new) aircraft inventory levels this low. My world is acquiring turbine aircraft so that is what I know best, but apparently the same thing is happening, maybe worse, in piston airplanes.

It's hard to even calculate how low inventory levels are because most of the aircraft advertised for sale on Controller either aren't real or are already sold.

There's 48 King Air B200's currently listed for sale, but when you look at them there's nothing there. Sold, damaged, overpriced. But, even if they were real you are talking about a fleet of 1042 airplanes and only 48 are even supposedly for sale? That number usually stays between two and three times that.

Take the Learjet 45XR, there's only 3 or 4 US airplanes for sale, we bought one for a client last year and had at least a dozen to pick from. We purchased the third one we actually looked at! My client could sell his airplane today for a profit and will probably be able to sell it next year for a substantial profit.

Everyone knows we do a lot of Mustangs... decent airplane on an engine program, no damage history, priced right? The chances are almost 100% that we have to find that airplane off market, there's just nothing out there.

I keep hearing people say it's going to drop.

When?