Smallest Commercial Jet

Embraer's biggest member of the Embraer jet line with outstanding coverage and economics.

This is a "quiet" next class jet plane, perfect for smaller groups up to 100 people. This is the latest release of the beloved local jet model airplane type 146. Exceptional endurance power. The Challenger Business Jet is a derivation of the Challenger, which is very much loved by local airlines around the world for its velocity and efficiency. An extended model of the CRJ200 plane with longer reach and higher load capacity.

What is the decommissioning of aircraft and how much value can be recovered?

When they retire, the airplanes land in dust covered car parks known as "Boneyards". "Get to know one of the biggest bone yards in the galaxy, how airplanes are actually taken out of service and the recovery value of commercial airplane parts. Typically, an airplane is ready for use for about 30 years before it has to be taken out of service.

The Boeing 747 can withstand about 35,000 pressure cycling tests and 35,000 flying time - about 135,000 to 165,000 flying time - before metallic wear starts. The 747s are adopted for retirement after about 27 years of employment. Earlier wide-body airplanes, such as the Lockheed Tri-Star, have a short life of 24 years on averaging. This Boneyard is an outdoor warehouse for all types of airplanes, from decommissioned commercial vehicles to nuclear-capable B-52s.

AMARG's biggest aerospace storage facility worldwide is the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson, Arizona, where the company's flagship company, the Davis-Monthan Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), is located. His 2,600 hectares are covered with obsolete airplanes valued at more than $32 billion (measured by their initial acquisition price), which includes all U.S. federal decommissioneds.

Whilst some aeroplanes are stocked on an inter-operation basis, more than 80 per cent of the AMARG fleets are held to supply replacement parts for current governments and armed forces aeroplanes. Most of them can be reaped for parts in other airplanes. Once an airplane has arrived at AMARG, it is thoroughly cleaned to remove the external salts that can cause anticorrosion.

AMARG's 550 employees, among them civil engineering and inspection teams, maintain the aeroplanes at various stages of repair. A number of planes are kept in near operational condition for the flights and receive severe servicing three and a half hours a year if they are recalled for servicing or resold to U.S. Air Force forces that want to modernize or extend their own fleet.

Particular care is given by the engineers to the B-52 retirement fighters able to carry thermo-nuclear warheads. Airplanes that have been decommissioned are gradually phased out over the years. AMARG has a local melting plant where some of the excess airplanes and their grenades are crushed and reused. For commercial aeroplanes, the closure procedure is largely identical.

Mojave, the Californian air and space port, holds old Boeing, Airbus and Lockheed airplane liquor stocks. In the United States, there are an estimate of 300,000 planes in use today. Every year several hundred of them are taken out of use. Approximately 11 per cent of the aviation industry's total capacity is withdrawn at some point, but is still in use.

There' re a lot of things you can do to take a plane out of use. For example, United is currently considering to park its Boeing 747 aircraft as early as 2018 to make room for newer, more fuel-efficient aircraft. Carriers sell them and replace them with twin-engine long-haul aircraft to reduce consumption and reduce servicing time.

Otherwise, an aircraft may be grounded if some of its parts no longer comply with Federal Aviation Administration norms. Reduced numbers of global corporate travellers could lead airline companies to crowd in some widebody aircraft until crank seat requirements pick up again. Aircraft ages in relation to pressure cycling.

For those who are flying shorter routes, they can perform several daily services with several pressure cycling operations, while for those who are travelling abroad, the load is lower. As a result, younger airplanes can be shut down even if older ones keep flying. Airline companies use service programmes developed by a manufacturer to identify when an aircraft's component is over-tired due to pressurisation.

Airline companies will then have the possibility to replace these parts with new or used parts or to completely decommission the airplane. In order to prevent these expenses, air companies sometimes resell their older models to foreign companies. Over the past few years, commercial air companies in the former Soviet bloc and parts of Asia have been the most enthusiastic purchasers of used U.S. jets.

A few disused planes remain in the camp, with the prospect that one morning they could return. Rarely is a disused jet resold to movie or TV producers, such as the 32-year-old Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, which ABC used for the TV show "Lost. It is more common for parts of abandoned aircraft to be removed for re-use or re-sale before being smelted into metal scraps.

Nearly every part of an aeroplane - including the lavatory basin - can be converted for use in newer aeroplanes. Used aeroplane parts are really good goods, because most of them still have a great deal of live in them, but are much less expensive than ordering new parts from the manufacturers. Such parts may be exported to jurisdictions with different legal requirements for which parts may still be used.

Engine applications are particularly popular because their turbine contains rotary vanes and discs that need to be replaced regularly to meet flight security requirements. Air carriers may obtain replacement parts by specific agreement with air carriers, through an external retailer or from a State liquidity market place.