Help reading blue book engine overhaul costs

[wheaties]

I'm looking at https://www.aircraftbluebook.com/Tools/ABB/ShowEngines.do?sortKey=&sortOrder=&pageNavigation=all and I see 4 columns: New Outright, New Exchange, Remanufactured Exchange and Average Overhaul Installed. When I look at the VREF from AOPA I am seeing much different numbers for overhaul. It is so different that it appears the VREF tool's overhaul is nearly twice the last column

How to read that aircraft bluebook chart? Is the last the labor and the first three the engine in and of itself? Is the last just what the average person pays?

 

[flyingcheesehead]

I'm looking at https://www.aircraftbluebook.com/Tools/ABB/ShowEngines.do?sortKey=&sortOrder=&pageNavigation=all and I see 4 columns: New Outright, New Exchange, Remanufactured Exchange and Average Overhaul Installed. When I look at the VREF from AOPA I am seeing much different numbers for overhaul. It is so different that it appears the VREF tool's overhaul is nearly twice the last column

How to read that aircraft bluebook chart? Is the last the labor and the first three the engine in and of itself? Is the last just what the average person pays?

Looking at that... I wouldn't put much stock in it. First of all, they're missing some very common engines (Like, for example, nearly the entire IO-550 series, including the G that's in my Mooney and the N that's in the Cirrus SR22).

For what it's worth, IME the Overhaul number on AOPA's VRef is pretty much right on. Not sure how good their Reman numbers are, but I've never done a factory reman.

Those numbers do NOT include the cost of your local shop doing the removal and reinstallation on the aircraft. Figure about another $6K for all of the other stuff that goes along with an overhaul.