Airbus ACJ TwoTwenty for Sale in the Middle East

ACJ TwoTwenty range: brochure vs operator

Airbus publishes 5,650 nm with eight passengers at nominal performance. Comlux, which flies more TwoTwentys than anyone, describes the current range as 4,100 nm, about nine hours, with capacity to extend it to 5,000 nm. We plan Gulf missions on the operator's number and treat anything beyond it as a question for the specific aircraft and its fuel-tank fit.

On that basis the TwoTwenty is a Europe, Indian Ocean and Asia aircraft from the Gulf, not a transatlantic one. Anyone who needs Riyadh to New York in one sector should look at the ACJ319neo, which Airbus rates at 6,750 nm with eight passengers.

ACJ TwoTwenty price and what buying new means

The equipped price was reported at about $80,000,000 in 2022, and Business Jet Traveler put the finished price of a completed aircraft around $100,000,000 the same year. Our working range as of 2026 is $80,000,000 to $100,000,000, indicative and confirmed per aircraft. The spread is almost entirely the completion: the green airframe is a known quantity, while the cabin is designed around one owner.

With only a handful completed, there is no public pre-owned market. A buyer has two routes. The first is new: a green A220 from Airbus plus a VIP completion measured in months, not weeks. The second is an off-market purchase of an existing aircraft, faster, but it means living with someone else's cabin or budgeting to redo it. Message the desk on WhatsApp for photos and a complete spec sheet of any TwoTwenty we can put in front of you.

Hourly operating costs are not published. Ask for an operator estimate before comparing it with a Boeing BBJ, whose running costs are better documented.

What to check on a TwoTwenty

This is an airliner under the cabin, so the diligence looks more like an airline lease return than a business jet sale. Our list:

• The aircraft's own range figures with its actual fuel-tank fit, not the brochure number
• Completion provenance and the EASA or FAA approval of the VIP cabin
• PW1500G engine program status and any open service bulletins
• The A220 maintenance program: check intervals and which approved organisation in the region can perform them
• Crew plan: two pilots, one or two cabin crew and, per Comlux, a flight station engineer
• Hangar and ramp space at your home base for an airliner-sized aircraft

Registration, VAT and basing in the Gulf

9H-FIVE carries a Maltese mark, which shows how often this category sits off the national registers. The Gulf options are HZ- with GACA in Saudi Arabia, A7- with the QCAA in Qatar, A4O- with PACA in Oman and A9C- with Bahrain's Civil Aviation Affairs; the usual offshore choices are Isle of Man, Cayman, Aruba and San Marino, picked for financing and resale.

At this price, VAT decides a great deal. On $90,000,000, Saudi Arabia's 15% import VAT is about $13,500,000. Bahrain's 10% would be about $9,000,000 and Oman's 5% about $4,500,000, and in Qatar the figure is zero, since no VAT applies there in 2026. Treat civil aircraft as exempt from the GCC's 5% tariff only once customs confirms the HS heading. Our bizliner comparison runs the same numbers across the TwoTwenty, the ACJ319neo and the BBJ.