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From: "Bob Branch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] Unworthy coupes
Lee
As a mater of fact the Zenith 601XL is one of the planes I priced out in
detail. The mid 60's is what they were telling people at OSH in 2004. When
you price em out to lay your money down you are substantially low.
bob
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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]>
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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
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