People who buy / sell parts, please, give me advice.
Working for an airline I am faced with the following situation. We have two old aircraft that we want to retire. We are leasing them, but we have the option to purchase them at market values. The technical guys say it might be worth buying the aircraft and dismantling them for the parts, as the other similar aircraft in the fleet are also getting old, and it is better to have enough spares on stock. Now, I have to make a business case to do this or not.
My questions are the following:
- I roughly know what the market value of the aircraft is. But how do I establish what the market value of the unserviceable parts of these aircraft is?
- Supposing that we dismantle the aircraft, what would be a good estimate of how much of the parts will be beyond repair?
Thanks!
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