When airplanes are retired, many of them end up stripped for parts that are worth millions of dollars. Those parts are in high demand — Boeing and Airbus are behind on deliveries of new aircraft and sold out of planes through the latter part of the decade. The used-aircraft parts trade is a small but important part of global spending on airplane maintenance, repair and overhaul, which Oliver Wyman expects to reach $94 billion this year.
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