If you buy a helicopter this is a great opportunity, what is the reason?

ByOlivier CABARET

Due to the decline in oil and gas prices over the past two years, the impact on the price of helicopters has also appeared. When saying "private helicopter", there is an image like rich music of rich people, but news site Quartz explains that 2016 helicopter is a buyer's market.

Now is a really good time to buy a helicopter - Quartz
http://qz.com/755787/now-is-a-really-good-time-to-buy-a-helicopter/

Not only is the price of helicopter cheap, it relates not only to the decline in crude oil prices but also to the development of drone. A natural resource mining company used a helicopter in investigating oil fields, but in recent years it is becoming a flow to use an inexpensive drone. As an example showing a decline in the price of a helicopter, QuartzBell 407"As for the company's medium-sized helicopter for enterprises, it is said that used machines are being sold at 1.69 million dollars (about 172 million yen) in August 2016. Listening to the price is very expensive, but we are investigating the helicopter priceHeliValue $According to that, this price is lower than 13% since 2014.

ByStuart.mike

Worldwide including helicoptersRotary wing aircraftProduction volume has also declined,Forecast International(Aircraft Research Institute) forecasts that only 1050 rotary wing aircraft will be produced in 2016, the lowest number will be recorded in the past 10 years.


In anticipation of this, it is expected that an inexpensive helicopter will be operated like a Uber, but it is hard to imagine "own a helicopter with one individual". Meanwhile, in 1981 produced · Italian "Agusta A 109", Since it is sold for $ 220,000 (about 22 million yen) which declined to nearly half the price since 2014," If a person has a certain amount of savings, the helicopter is not an unreachable amount "Quartz recommends.


A helicopter that can be purchased at the price of a luxury car appears, but in order to actually own a helicopter, not only the main body but also a pilot and a hangar becomes necessary. Also, an analyst at the Aerospace Exploration Agency warns that "helicopters can not land in the backyard of their home due to noise problems."