The 12-Month Moving Total Trends for both pre-owned business jet aircraft retail sale transactions and average asking price from January 2004 to September 2011 are illustrated in Chart A.

The Astrium vehicle would be about the size of a business jet and would take off from a standard runway, using normal aircraft engines to climb to about 12km.

But if you buy a used business jet, you can have the aircraft within 2 months.