Asking range: methodology and limitations
What the "Asking range" panel on each model page shows, and what it doesn't. Figures as of October 17, 2026.
For each make and model we track, the panel shows what sellers are currently asking for that aircraft, grouped by year of manufacture. It comes from public listings and appears as a range with a median. It reflects what sellers ask, not what aircraft sell for.
Asking prices are not sale prices. An aircraft trades for more or less than its asking number depending on total time, engine and prop hours, avionics, damage history, location, and how motivated the buyer and seller are, and a listing rarely tells you any of that. Treat the range as a reference point, not a stand-in for a pre-purchase inspection and your own homework.
The panel only counts listings seen in the last 60 days, so it follows the current market rather than aircraft that sold or were pulled from sale long ago. Each model page shows the date its figures were last updated.
Listings are grouped into year ranges sized to the aircraft, with wider ranges for piston singles and narrower ones for turboprops and jets, so each row covers a similar vintage. A range only appears once there are enough current listings to be meaningful, and a price far out of step with the rest of its group, usually a typo, is dropped before the range is worked out so one bad listing can't skew it.
A few things are deliberately left out. Figures are grouped by make, model, and year, never down to an individual aircraft. We make no adjustment for hours, avionics, or condition, and we don't convert currencies; each group stays in the currency its listings were in. And we never show sale prices, because we don't have them.