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The Aviation Market Is Breaking: Why Some Aircraft Are Holding Value While Others Nosedive | EP 26
Podcast: The Truth About the Aviation Market Host: Jason Zilberbrand, President of VREF
For years, people talked about the “aircraft market” as if it were a single thing.
Values rose together
Values fell together
And broad headlines were enough to describe what was happening.
That era is over.
In the first quarter of 2026, aircraft values are no longer moving in one cycle. The market has fragmented. Some aircraft remain highly liquid with stable or rising values. Others are quietly losing pricing power as lifecycle costs catch up with them.
In this quarterly update episode of The Truth About…
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