WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CERTIFIED NAAA APPRAISAL AND AN AIRCRAFT PRICE GUIDE SUCH AS THE BLUEBOOK?
The differences are enormous and to answer this question would take many pages, but let us briefly look at some key differences. Aircraft price guides are published, marketed, and distributed by book publishing companies. The fact is they do not appraise aircraft; they do not even gather or generate their own data. Rather, they simply send out a questionnaire every 3 months to subscribers of their books and ask a few questions, which are very vague. From these questionnaires the book publishers generate their database.
