Traumahawk cons...
NO resale, if you bought one you would likely get out of it what you paid for it...but dont expect it to appreciate like a C-150 probably would.
Throw away wings.
They are ugly.
I would just like to clarify a few things here from Bryan's post on the Con's....
As far as resale goes, it really depends on how you look after it. Yes there is probably more market for a 150/152 and I can't really comment on what happens in the US, but over here a Tomahawk price falls between a 150 and 152 (around 40K Aus - 30K US approx) and generally there are more 150/152 for sale then Axe's - as stated before, an underated aircraft in general....
Throw Away wings, now Charles might be able to assist here, my understand is there is a Mod, that if done by a certain time, does away with the throw away problem, or at least extends the life a few more thousand hours. In that regard, If you get a low time Axe (like mine was, only 4000 Hrs) at 100hrs a year, you'll need to own the aircraft for around 50 years before its really a problem - lets not forget that small but extremly relivant fact. Even if it has 7000Hrs on it, with average private flying your still looking at 20 years, and that only if you don't do the Mod prior to that time. Do some research on the wing AD, I think you find its all doom and gloom as some would have you believe.
Now as far as Ugly, I don't think so in fact it does have some really nice lines, at worst I would say it has charactor.................
, I actually think they look quite good with the right paint scheme,and not necessarly Piper standard either. Have a look at
www.Airliners.net [
airliners.net] I've also seen one in the UK with the Spitfire/Hurricane colours, and I have to say it wasn't bad either. Mine only had the standard paint scheme and prior to selling it, i was going to get a respray in a more custom style. When I get home tonight I'll see if I can find a photo and post it here. I don't think there ugly, I can say I've seen ugly 150/152, and there again its all in the colour scheme I think.
Whilst you doing you google searches, there is one Tomahawk with an engine conversion, similar to the 150/150 one
, and there is also a Tomahawk that has had the tail section converted so its a conventional tail like a Warrior - interesting
,
Here's one
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/piperpa38tomahawkclub/And here is a link to my old Tomahawk, now owned by my friend, Bret Cavanagh - he also has other links from his site regarding PA-38 etc you'll find as you go looking
http://www.cavanagh.id.au/kaj1.htmlSumming it up, there are more positives and negatives, look at it with an open mind, as I said before a very underrated aircraft.......
Cheers
