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Leased 225s are also required to be airworthy before being returned to lessors. There are quite a few leaving operator fleets and being returned this year. Lessors are not happy about being stuck with them. No one wants to be left holding a turd.
yes some companies and lessors are letting them go for marginally more than a B3e A-Star. Some utility operators are starting to snatch them up and the companies/lessors have been happy to get them off their books and call it a day.