Club Homepage Forums Classified Ads Buy & Sell - Everything But Airplanes Is this one worth $25K ?

While my aircraft has had some problems (most of the maintenance costs were completely elective, such as squaring the landing gear, having the legs worked, flap tracks replaced, etc) the majority of the aircraft priced less than $20,000 are good, solid aircraft. If you can find one with a good engine for, say, $17,000... why in the world would you pay $25,000 for a comparable aircraft? Just because you want to throw money away?

The BIG issue is to N O T get attached to an airplane, like I did! Just because it looks pretty and has a new paint job does NOT mean the airplane will be a good one, nor does spending an excessive amount of money. Some people get burned for buying cheap. I did, somewhat. Most don't. Then you can also get burned for paying too much for an airplane!

Just because a guy wants to recoup his spending money on a new paint job DOES NOT mean the airplane is in excellent shape.

So if I paid $25,000 for my plane, that would have made its impending mechanical issues disappear?