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HELICOPTERS

TWIN ENGINE HELICOPTER

SALES TRENDING UP

Leonardo AW 139

recovery was just around the corner,” The Leonardo AW139 was the best
she added. performing medium twin market in 2020,

ero Asset has released the 2020 Markets showed incredible resilience in representing 40 percent of all medium unit

AHeli Market Trends annual report the last half of the year, with retail sales transactions. Medium twins accounted for
30 percent of all units sold, and nearly 40
and forecasts bullish preowned twin en- units on par year over year. percent of the total transaction value for all

Overall, 2020 pre-owned retail sales

gine market conditions for 2021. units rose 10 percent year over year and models and weight classes.

After four consecutive quarters of de- 2020 saw the most retail transactions of The Bell 429 saw the strongest increase

cline, the deal pipeline, which tracks the the last four years. Following a sharp rise in light twin sales in 2020 and represented
number of preowned twin engine heli- in the number of units available for sale 15 percent of all light twin unit sales. The
copter deals pending at various stages of over the last two quarters of 2020, supply light twin market was stable during 2020,

transaction, rose in the fourth quarter. for sale units rose eight percent, year representing 58 percent of all units sold

“The heated transaction pace observed over year. last year.
at the end of 2020, an expanding preowned The overall absorption rate across all

deal pipeline, and the pandemic vaccine models and asset classes remained con- THE PRE-OWNED TWIN HELICOPTER
rollout supports the making of a bullish stant with 20.5 months of supply at 2020 MARKET BY THE NUMBERS
market,” said Aero Asset Vice President of trading levels versus 21 months in 2019. There was a total of 143 units sold in
Market Research, Valerie Pereira. 2020, up 10 percent from the previous
WEIGHT CLASS RESILIENCE year. Those retail sales totalled (US) $516
2020 HELI MARKET ROLLER million, an increase of 16 percent from the
COASTER RIDE With the Sikorsky S-92 and Airbus H225 previous year.
“Following a heli market roller coaster markets both performing strongly, the At the end of 2020 there were 245 units
heavy weight class market saw the biggest
ride last year, most indicators point to a rise in transaction volume of all weight for sale worth approximately (US) $941

healthier trend,” Pereira said. As Covid-19 classes last year and nearly twice as many million, up eight percent from 2019. The
ramped up through the second quarter, retail transactions year over year. Heavies absorption rate was down slightly year over

preowned twin engine helicopter retail represented 12 percent of all units sold year to 1.7 years, and 29 units were deal
sales volume dropped by half. “While the in 2020 and 20 percent of the aggregate pending at various stages of transaction in

market went into hypotension, a strong transacted value. the deal pipeline. Q
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