flyaway value
flyaway cost

The anticipated average flyaway cost of a production version was $3 million.

Flyaway cost plus research and development cost divided by the number of aircraft.

Flyaway cost is one measure of the cost of an aircraft.

That compares with the Pentagon's newest projection, which put the "unit recurring flyaway cost" at $78.7 million.

The flyaway cost can be meaningfully compared to another cost metric: the weapons system cost.

This was accomplished at 10% less than the agreed-upon price for the batch, putting the JAS 39C flyaway cost at under US$30 million.

Due to cost cutting measures, the U.S. Government and the GAO have stated that the flyaway cost (including engines) has been dropping.

The 'average unit recurring flyaway costs' for the F-35A have remained stable in the upper $40 million range in baseline 2002 dollars, said John Smith, a Lockheed Martin spokesman.

A good way of looking at the difference is the flyaway cost is the cost of making the aircraft, but the weapons system cost is the cost of buying the aircraft.

A RAND Corporation paper from this study estimated that restarting production and building an additional 75 F-22s would cost $17 billion, resulting in $227 million per aircraft or 54 million higher than the flyaway cost.

Use of the H-2 airframe allowed installation of SOF systems already configured for Combat Talons without expensive and time-consuming development that would be required of new production C-130J aircraft, reducing the flyaway cost of the Spear to $60 million per aircraft.