Market data · Business jet prices, charter rates, and pre-owned market figures
The last unpriced market in the sky, with numbers attached
New business jets have factory order books and published delivery totals. Charter has hourly rates that every broker quotes a little differently. Pre-owned has asking prices that move with days on market. Put the three together and you get a market that is easier to read than its reputation suggests — provided you keep new, charter, and pre-owned in separate columns, because they answer different questions.
Headline figures
Trend column: each figure is compared with its prior period from the same source, with the prior figure shown. Where no prior-period figure from the same source was available, the figure is labeled Baseline (October 2026) — trend tracking starts with the next refresh.
| Figure | Value | Source | Trend vs prior period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piston airplanes shipped, 2024 | 1,772 (+4.2%) | GAMA, via Monitor Daily | ▲ Up 4.2% vs 2023 |
| Turboprops shipped, 2024 | 626 (−1.9%) | GAMA, via Monitor Daily | ▼ Down 1.9% vs 2023 |
| Business jets, first 9 months of 2024 | 501 (+10.1% year over year) | GAMA Q3 2024 report, via 50 Sky Shades | ▲ Up 10.1% year over year |
| Turboprop charter range, 2025 | $2,000–$3,200/hr | The Jet Scout 2025 guide | Baseline (October 2026) — trend tracking starts with the next refresh |
| Corroborating charter ranges (second guide) | Light $2,500–$5,500; midsize $4,000–$8,500; heavy $8,000–$18,000+/hr | Jettly 2025 pricing guide | Baseline (October 2026) — trend tracking starts with the next refresh |
The two charter guides disagree by thousands of dollars an hour on the same categories — light jets at $4,250–$6,500 in one and $2,500–$5,500 in the other. That disagreement is itself data: published hourly rates are broker marketing ranges, not transaction prices, and they exclude taxes, fuel surcharges, and positioning. The delivery totals, by contrast, are counted airframes with billed values, and they tell a steadier story: as GAMA put it in its 2024 report release, "for the first time in a decade our companies again exceeded $30 billion in annual billings and for the second year in a row, we shipped more than 4,000 units" — 4,118 units in total (3,162 airplanes plus 956 helicopters) against $31.2 billion in billings. (Source: GAMA 2024 Aircraft Shipment and Billing Report.)
Methodology
Included: GAMA shipment and billing totals for 2024, a published business-jet market estimate, and two public charter-rate guides shown side by side. Excluded: manufacturer list prices by model (they vary by configuration and were not verified as a comparable series), AMSTAT/JetNet pre-owned inventory figures (no public summary verified this session), and fractional-share pricing (no verified series this session).
Disclaimer: Aggregated public estimates for information only, not investment or professional advice. Charter rates exclude taxes and fees unless stated and vary by route, date, and aircraft.
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Changelog
- October 2026: Initial edition — deliveries and billings, charter ranges, and the business-jet market estimate established; trend indicators added to every figure (prior-period figures shown where the same source publishes them; all other figures labeled Baseline (October 2026)).
- October 31, 2026: Closing-paragraph claim verified against GAMA's own release and tightened to a direct quote with the reconciled unit total (4,118 = 3,162 airplanes + 956 helicopters). Figures unchanged; GlobeNewswire URL retained verbatim with its bot-wall caveat.