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Bob don't know where you are looking, and yes some are that high, which I agree is too much, but some are in the 50's and 60's. Rans S-6 and the S-7, Pulsar, and Zeneth are all selling new in the 60's, and for a year or two old comes down into the 40's. I have been looking and that is what I am finding Lee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Branch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] Unworthy coupes > I'll just point out that a new LSA is not in the realm of $60K for any of > them. All of them in the air are over $85K (except ultalights) and if you > price them carefully you will find they are really most in the $90K and > upwards range in the air. I priced out an Zenith 601HL kit and in the air > equipped like my coupe was $67K. That is a kit folks! And these numbers are > right now numbers, not delivered in 6 to 12 months as most of them are > because of the demand and rates of production. > > I agree an inspection is in order, as good as you can get. But I have bought > other aircraft and I can tell you even the best inspection is not an annual. > Its a look over. Demanding a new annual does not even get you cleared cause > your mechanic and theirs may have differences of opinions. There will be > work needed to be done for every new owner because no two people have the > same ideas of maintenance and what constitutes acceptable. A plane does not > have to be a ground up restoration to be in good shape. But ercoupes are in > fact simple airplanes. Yes it does cost money to bring one up into really > nice shape, but not so much that they will not return the value. I think the > major thing we want to know is who much are we getting ourselves into. I'm > not sure anything less than an annual by your mechanic is going to give you > an accurate number of dollars on that. These are older aircraft. They can be > and have been flown for many hundreds of hours with less than stellar > maintenance. One owner may be happy to have his essman mags rebuilt at what > it costs while another will want new mags and harnesses. The plane would fly > with both. But its not as clear a mater of dollars as what any prepurchase > inspection would indicate. > > just my 10cents and less than $100K worth. > > bob branch > 99891 > > ============================================================================== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
