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ATLANTA, USA, March 10, 2026 – Aero Asset, a global helicopter sales and market intelligence firm, has released its 2025 Annual Heli Market Trends Twin-Engine edition during a press conference at VERTICON in Atlanta, GA. Backed by Aero Asset’s expertise and proprietary market insight, this report delivers a comprehensive analysis of the global preowned twin-engine helicopter market in 2025.The report tracks activity across weight classes, configurations, and regions, as well as trends in sales, supply, pricing, and liquidity. At the end of 2025, the data revealed that twin-engine supply dropped by 26% year-over-year (YOY), reaching a new five-year low.

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This report was originally published by Aero Asset on March 10, 2026.

NAFA member Global Jet Capital releases Q4 2025 Market Brief. 

The business jet market was on solid footing in Q4 2025. With a positive macroeconomic environment, business jet market fundamentals remained strong, including rising usage and transaction activity and steady aircraft availability and values. These trends supported the market’s stability and set the stage for continued momentum into 2026.

• Following uncertainty earlier in the year, the global economy continued to grow in Q4 2025, and some economists have upgraded their growth expectations.
• Business jet departures experienced broad-based growth in Q4, rising 4.6 percent year over year.
• OEM backlogs rose 10.4 percent year over year in Q4 2025 as industry-wide orders increased.
• Transaction activity was strong in 2025, with total volume increasing 9.8 percent year over year.
• Pre-owned aircraft available for sale as a percentage of the total installed base was lower in Q4 2025 than Q4 2024, declining from to 6.9 percent from 7.4 percent.
• In Q4 2025, bluebook values increased 0.4 percent, reflecting stability between supply and demand during the quarter. 

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This market brief was originally published by Global Jet Capital on February 24, 2026.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) released the 2025 General Aviation Aircraft Shipment and Billing Report during its annual State of the Industry Press Conference. Overall, when compared to 2024, the business jet and piston airplane segments saw increases in shipments and preliminary aircraft deliveries were valued at $35.7 billion, an increase of 14.6%.

“The state of the general aviation manufacturing industry remains steadfast. We continue to see robust numbers of total aircraft delivered as well as annual billings eclipsing $35 billion, the highest it has ever been. While some segments are seeing marginal declines in deliveries, they are all still above 2019 levels.  As manufacturers work hard to meet the challenges and demand of today, they remain focused on advancing safety and innovation for the future of the entire aviation industry,” said James Viola, GAMA President and CEO.

Airplane shipments in 2025, when compared to 2024, saw piston airplanes increase by ten units to 1,782, turboprops decline slightly by 5.1% with 594 units, and business jets increase 11.8% with 854 units. The value of airplane deliveries for 2025 was $31.0 billion, an increase of 16.1%.

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This press release was originally published by GAMA on February 18, 2026.

NAFA member General Aviation Manufacturer’s Association (GAMA) issued its Q3 2025 billings and delivery report and the news in the jet segment was very good indeed. Mike Potts takes a closer look.

The piston market could hardly be more flat, with just five units separating this year’s total from last year’s. 

Of the 16 companies reporting piston deliveries, five are ahead of last year’s totals, seven and lagging behind and four are even. Looking at just the third quarter, six are ahead, six are behind and four are even.  

While this suggests a balanced market, there is a pretty wide disparity among just how some of the individual companies are doing. Some are doing quite well while others are far off their prior year pace.

Cirrus continues to be the single-engine piston market leader, but by a margin that is narrowing as the year plays out. They finished the third quarter with 483 deliveries, up more than 15.27 percent from the 419 units they reported last year.  

Oddly, their third quarter results were very close, with 178 units this year against 175 in 2024, or a gain of just 1.7 percent. Cirrus is so far ahead of the rest of the field that this difference hardly seems to matter, but it is interesting to watch.   

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This report was originally published by AvBuyer on January 28, 2026.

NAFA member Aero Asset releases their 2025 Annual Heli Market Trends - Single Engine Edition.

Heli Market Trends compiles 2025 performance of 4 single engine models in production and variants with recent preowned sales activity. Market performance is ranked from most to least active.

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This report was originally published by Aero Asset on January 27, 2026.

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) issued its Q3 2025 billings and delivery report and the news in the jet segment was very good indeed. Mike Potts takes a closer look.

We are on track for the first 800-unit business jet year since 2019 and, going by the evidence presented in GAMA’s Q3 2025 shipment report, I believe we will exceed 2019’s total of 809 units by a significant margin. Outside of the jet market, results weren’t quite so strong.

Overall, aircraft deliveries for the first nine months of 2025 totaled 2,201 units, an increase of 1.5% over the 2024 Year to Date (YTD) total. These included 554 business jets, 409 turboprops and 1,238 piston-powered airplanes.

The jet total was 10.6% ahead, Year Over Year (YOY) of the 501 units reported in 2024. In contrast, turboprops were off 6.0% from the 435 delivered in 2024 while piston-powered aircraft were up slightly (five units) from 1,233 a year ago.

Billings for the first nine months of 2025 totaled $19.4bn in US dollars, up 13.2% from $17.1bn recorded in 2024.

Business Jet Market Specifics 

With revenues up by more than $2bn, you’d naturally assume things must be doing very well in the jet market, but not perhaps as well as you might expect.

Of 10 jet OEMs reporting to GAMA, six enjoyed gains over last year, but three lagged their 2024 performance and one matched it. For Q3 2025 alone, just four OEMs saw positive gains compared to Q3 2024, three were down and three were even. Nonetheless, jet sales are proceeding at a record pace, although there’s been something of a shake-up in the usual order of things.

Textron’s Cessna unit continued to lead the market for jet deliveries, but not by the margin it has enjoyed in the past. Cessna’s YTD total of 123 jets was just four units ahead of its 119 shipments for the same period in 2024. In Q3 alone, Cessna was up by a single unit from 41 to 42.

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This article was originally published by AvBuyer on December 15, 2025.

Leading US brokers and financiers highlight the factors they expect to influence the US market for pre-owned business aircraft in 2026. Chris Kjelgaard reports.

Unsurprisingly to everyone in Business Aviation, two factors have strongly influenced the US market for pre-owned aircraft this year.

One, enabled by the passing of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) in July, is the return of 100% first-year depreciation (commonly known as 100% bonus depreciation). This time, 100% bonus depreciation has returned without any phased reduction to zero over seven years, as was the case before.

Much anticipated and desired by the US Business Aviation community, the availability of 100% bonus depreciation from 2025 has – as every service provider to the community expected – stimulated purchasing in the US pre-owned aircraft market this year.

But industry insiders’ initial thoughts that the upcoming OBBBA act would provide a strong boost to purchases of pre-owned aircraft in the US even before the bill and its cherished bonus depreciation provision passed into law, proved slightly optimistic.

As the likely provisions of the OBBBA tax bill became increasingly clear in Q2 2025, aircraft brokers began providing “a lot of guidance to clients that ‘you want to be ahead of this’,” by purchasing their desired aircraft before the expected buying flood pushed prices up once OBBBA passed, according to Johnny Foster, CEO of OGARAJETS.

“While many sellers were excited by the opportunity and began planning for a heated ‘seller’s market’, buyers were slow to respond. Perhaps it was that many remained on holiday or they were waiting to see how much depreciation they could accept” as their year-end P&L and balance-sheet positions became clearer in the later months of 2025.

That hesitance served a purpose, though, intensifying the increasing activity that followed once OBBBA became law, putting more pressure on those seeking to buy used aircraft and place them into service before year-end in order to have the purchases qualify for 100% bonus depreciation tax treatment in 2025.

Overall, says Keith Hayes, Senior Vice President and National Sales Manager for PNC Aviation Finance, “Bonus depreciation did inject some additional enthusiasm” into the US pre-owned aircraft market following OBBBA’s passing.

But there has been one sizeable blot partially marring what otherwise would have been a perfect US sales picture in 2025. In a single-country market which represents up to 70% of the entire global Business Aviation industry, a second major factor – the fluctuating US tariffs on foreign-sourced goods – has acted in 2025 to strongly constrain the availability of many aircraft for the increasingly hungry US market.

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This report was originally published by AvBuyer on December 10, 2025.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) published the third quarter 2025 General Aviation Aircraft Shipment and Billing Report. The results for the first nine months of 2025, when compared to the same period in 2024, show increased shipments in the business jets sector and an increase in the overall value of aircraft shipments. 

Aircraft shipments through the third quarter of 2025, when compared to the same period in 2024, saw piston airplanes increase by five units to 1,238, turboprops decrease 6.0% with 409 units, and business jets increase 10.6% with 554 units. The value of airplane deliveries through the third quarter of 2025 was $19.4 billion, an increase of 13.2%.

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This press release was originally published by General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) on December 2, 2025.

NAFA member AMSTAT releases 2025 Q3 Preowned Business Aircraft Market Report. 

The latest update from AMSTAT, via the AMSTAT Premier+ platform, shows that the preowned business aircraft market continued to perform well in Q3 2025. Overall transactions for jets and turboprops ended the quarter 3% higher than Q3 2024 and 9.5% above the 10-year Q3 average. Year-to-date resale activity stands at 8.7% ahead of the first three quarters of 2024.

Segment Highlights

Heavy Jets: Strong trading activity with modest inventory growth, stable asking prices, and improving median values.

Super-Mid Jets: Active market with tight supply, softening average prices, and firming median values.

Medium Jets: Demand remains solid, but growing supply and a widening gap between rising ask prices and moderating median values.

Light Jets: Increased sales and inventory alongside declining average and median prices.

Turboprops: Expanding inventory and steady sales amid broad-based price declines.

Preowned Inventory – By Age: Older aircraft now make up a greater share of listings as newer models sell faster.

Preowned Inventory – By Location: North America remains dominant, with Western Europe’s share gradually increasing.

Preowned Inventory – By OEM: Manufacturer mix remains stable, with modest gains for Cessna, Dassault, and Piper.
 

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This report was originally published by AMSTAT on November 20, 2025.

NAFA member Global Jet Capital releases their Q3 2025 Market Brief.

The business jet market was on solid footing in Q3 2025. Against a backdrop of a positive macroeconomic environment, market fundamentals remained strong including rising business jet usage and transaction activity along with steady aircraft availability and values. These trends underscored the market’s stability and set the stage for continued momentum throughout the remainder of the year.

• Following uncertainty earlier this year, the global economy continued to grow in Q3 2025 and many economists increased their expectations for future growth.
• Growth in business jet departures accelerated in Q3 2025, rising 5.1 percent year-over-year.
• OEM backlog rose 12.1 percent year-over-year in Q3 2025 as industry-wide orders increased.
• Transaction activity rebounded strongly in Q3 2025, recovering from a slight slowdown in Q2 2025 and increasing 16.3 percent from the same period in 2024.
• Aircraft availability remained steady in Q3 2025, declining from 7.8 percent of the fleet in Q3 2024 to 7.6 percent.
• In Q3 2025, values for older aircraft declined 3.7 percent as they continued to normalize following gains made between 2021 and 2023 while newer aircraft values remained stable, increasing 0.2 percent.

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This report was originally published by Global Jet Capital on November 18, 2025.

NAFA member Global Jet Capital shares their recent New and Pre-Owned Business Jet Transaction Forecast.

The Global Jet Capital Business Jet Market Outlook summarizes the outputs of our proprietary transaction forecast model covering the period of 2025 through 2029. It reflects our projection of future activity in the business jet transaction market in both the new and pre-owned segments across different geographies.

The business jet transaction market grew in 2024 as OEMs made progress resolving supply chain and labor constraints (although more work needs to be done), and the pre-owned market recovered after a period of rebalancing. With expectations for steady economic growth, gradual improvement to supply chains, and a normalizing pre-owned market, we project business jet transactions will grow over the next five years.

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This report was originally published by Global Jet Capital on October 13, 2025.

NAFA member Aero Asset released their 2025 Half-Year Heli Market Trends - Twin-Engine Edition.  

Aero Asset’s Heli Market Trends series is a benchmark reference for the preowned helicopter industry, trusted by operators, financiers, and OEMs worldwide.  Dive into exclusive insights on global twin-engine helicopter market performance, buyer trends, and inventory shifts.  Stay ahead of the market—download your copy today!

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This report was originally published by Aero Asset on September 15, 2025.

PLANO, TX – September 4, 2025 – Rolland Vincent Associates (RVA), a consultancy specializing in business aviation intelligence, strategy, and forecasting, has released a groundbreaking market analysis entitled Tailored to Fit: Decoding the Structural Break Between Super Mid-Size and Large Business Jets. This in-depth study examines the clear differences between the two segments and their implications for future aircraft design, product strategy, and investment decisions.

RVA publishes occasional deep-dive commentaries on key business aviation topics, aiming to spark informed discussion and encourage product innovation—long proven to stimulate demand for business jets. The first in this series examined tariffs, concluding that the sector’s future is best served by preserving a zero-tariff regime.

This second report tackles another central question for the future of business aviation: Where is the next clean-sheet business jet platform most likely to emerge? Based on RVA’s analysis, the most likely candidates are either the upper end of the Super Mid-Size (SMS) segment or within the Large Jet class. “Our analysis shows that SMS and Large Jets are not points on a smooth continuum—they are separate markets with their own rules of engagement”, said RVA President Rollie Vincent. “Misreading this structural divide can lead to costly missteps in product planning. Our report offers clear guidance for OEMs and investors on where and how to compete in the next generation of business jets.”

Drawing on the latest data and decades of industry advisory experience, RVA’s research finds that while SMS and Large Jets are often grouped together in strategic discussions, they are in fact distinct markets—serving different customers, missions, and value propositions.

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This report was originally published by Rolland Vincent Associates in September 2025. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) published the Second Quarter 2025 General Aviation Aircraft Shipment and Billing Report. The results for the first six months of 2025, when compared to the same period in 2024, show increased shipments in the business jet and piston airplane sectors and an increase in the overall value of aircraft shipments. 

Aircraft shipments through the second quarter of 2025, when compared to the same period in 2024, saw piston airplanes increase 5.1% with 810 units, turboprops decrease 4.3% with 268 airplanes, and business jets increase 9.9% with 354 airplanes. The value of airplane deliveries through the second quarter of 2025 was $12.3 billion, an increase of 9.9%.

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This report was originally published by GAMA on September 9, 2025.

NAFA member Soar Aviation Law shares their latest article on the arrival of the 4th quarter rush.

Historically, the fourth quarter has been the busiest period for aircraft transactions. However, 2025 is proving to be an exception. The surge in activity has begun unusually early, with August already showing signs of the traditional fourth-quarter rush. The shift is not coincidental – it is the result of several converging factors that have created a sense of urgency among buyers. Chief among these are the reinstatement of 100% bonus depreciation under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), labor shortages affecting inspection availability, and ongoing uncertainty surrounding aircraft tariffs.

The OBBBA permanently reinstates 100% bonus depreciation for qualified property placed into service after January 19, 2025 under Section 168(k). This applies to new and pre-owned aircraft, provided they are predominantly used in the United States for qualified business purposes. It is important when establishing the aircraft ownership and operating structure to avoid related party leases or personal use, which can limit qualified business use. This means businesses can deduct the entire purchase price of an eligible aircraft in the year it is placed into service.

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This article was originally published by Soar Aviation Law in August 2025.