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How much would it cost
in total to manufacture a new aircraft?
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For all aircraft related questions see the All
about Aircraft section.
How much would it cost
in total to manufacture a new aircraft?
It is difficult to give an answer to this question because
the cost depends on the type and sophistication of the aircraft. But to let
you of extremes, it has cost Airbus more than 15 billion $ (so far, Feb 2007)
to design and build the Airbus 380. This amount is more than the GDP of many
countries in the world!
If you wish to know how much different types of aircraft
cost, you can have a look here – How
much do small aircraft cost? & How
much does a civilian passenger aircraft cost?
References
- Fabrication
& Assembly Cost Drivers for Aircraft Manufacturing (PDF) - a
research abstract - School of Aeronautical Engineering, Queen’s
University Belfast - Abstract - Aircraft acquisition cost contribution
to the direct operating cost is about three to four times higher than
the contribution made by fuel cost for the sector of operation. As a
result, commercial aircraft design is driven more by customer demands of
reduced acquisition cost and lead-time than by technology itself. The
paper describes the fabrication and assembly cost drivers in the field
of cost estimation and proposes a manufacturing process and weight
centric methodology, which captures the key cost drivers at the concept
design phase, based on a Rapid Cost model developed by Queen’s University
Belfast. Designing for part fabrication and their assembly starts at the
conceptual stage of a project in a concurrent engineering environment
that helps trade-off studies to arrive at the ‘best value’, specifically
aimed at industrial and operational needs. A methodology to establish
the key fabrication and assembly cost drivers based on the Rapid Cost
model relative to DFM/DFA methodology at the concept design phase is
proposed. (PDF)
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