Originally Posted by
exfocx
Yeah nah! F100 / RJ85 (no RJ100 info) is 6.5m & 7.0m. So my guess is the 2 odd m quote for the saab is rubbish. You won't pay anywhere near the figures they quote for the f100 / RJ.
A quick search on controller.com should help you correlate your mates figures...
All in AUD:
$4-5 million for a Dash 8-100
$300,000 for a Jetstream 31
$1-1.2 million for a Jetstream 32
$1.6 million for a Jetstream 41
$950,000 AUD for a Metro III
So given the above, $2 million AUD for a SAAB seems reasonable to me. The bank has 60 to choose from, you can bet they didn’t pick the oldest airframes. They’ll have finance over the newest and lowest flight time examples.
Alliance got an amazing deal when they bought 21 Fokkers for $15 million USD. But I’d argue that was back when the Fokker wasn’t in such high demand. I’ll bet you couldn’t buy one today for anything like $1M....