wow. $45K. that's as much as I've got in my plane by now, and my plane is isn't even close to this nice. Not even close. Looks like a turn-key, like-new airplane...
Have a look at this & tell me that a really good 150 for $45K is overpriced.
http://www.aso.com/i.aso3/search.js...&mode=&typeid=9&mmgid=-1&modelgroup=trueI recently sold my scratch built Zenair CH701 for a little under AUS$40K & bought my 150D for AUS$15K which leaves a fair margin for upgrades. It's all relative & I'd like to know whether the 0.016" specials will still be here 50 years later???
What I've got is also way under the price of a second hand Jabiru.
DJ
Sometimes I hate to think about how much I've sunk over the years into my C-150H - original purchase price $15K.
Last summer, I spent around $35K putting in a brand new engine, propeller, and a bunch of other things firewall forward. Maybe that was a bit of overkill, but I do like having a new engine, and thus far, I have avoided some of the horrors that others I know have experienced from less-than-perfect field overhauls.
My C-150H still looks like an old plane, though, and I still have a long way to go to get it like new, the way I'd like it.
However, like you point out, the bigger and more powerful the plane, the more the cost goes up, exponentially, to maintain it.
$45K for N2673J seems like a great price, and you get a turn-key airplane. I defy others (including the blowhards on the other forum) to find a nicer plane for the money, LSAs included.
