New Line on RV Forecasting

BY ANTHONY KIOUSSIS Asset Insight, Inc. / akioussis@assetinsight.com

New Line on RV ForecastingPredicting Your Aircraft’s Residual Value Since an aircraft is a depreciating capital asset, proper financial planning requires an accurate forecast of its anticipated Residual Value (RV) before acquisition. Residual Value forecasting historically has been viewed as a “best guess” – even by some aircraft appraisers. RV predictions used to be based on an aircraft model’s historical performance, but “past performance is not indicative of future results.”