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Interesting ad:
https://www.barnstormers.com/ad_detail.php?id=1516927

I'm thinking it's not bad, and really not a bad price either, for the right buyer. Probably needs ADSB.

I wouldn't pay $90K for a 152 with over 13,000 hrs on the airframe. For that kind of money, buy one with a low airframe time, put on a paint job, slap in a newly overhauled engine, new avionics, and still have money left over.

Morning Hung!
You're right. But for for me, I'm not so sure. By the time I'd buy a good C152 airframe, overhaul the engine, disassemble clean and reassemble, while rewiring and re-rigging the entire plane, rebuild the brakes and all other peripheral systems, repair all corrosion and repaint, replace the entire interior, including a new custom panel, I'd be surprised if I were much below his asking price, since I would hire every bit of that done by a shop. Not to mention the price I'd pay to avoid the headaches.
Geoff

https://www.barnstormers.com/ad_detail.php?id=1516197

This looks like a good restoration, the seller claims 85K spent on all the work, add initial purchase it's not much higher than this 152. And he was asking 75K, I doubt someone will pay 90k for the Aviat 152.

I wonder why they choose such a high time airframe to make a reimagined 152 out of.

Yes. Of all the 152s available, they could have used one with much lower airframe time.

Initially when this "concept" was first proposed, the candidates were SUPPOSED to be low-time airframes. Engine, paint, upholstery and panel avionics are equally upgradeable on ANY airplane.
I suppose if you brought your 152 to Aviat they would perform the restoration regardless of the time.

Only the manufacturer can "zero time" an engine/airfirame.

Geoff, also there would be no waiting for the project to be completed. and think of all the phone calls you would NOT have to make completing the project.

Most pilots need a little more interior room for themeselves or passengers. I have some friends who would like to go flying, but the interior width is not wide enough in the c150M model.

Bruce

That's one of the perks of having a small 'airframe' myself. Sure it's been a little tight at times, but I've yet to have a passenger complain that it was TOO tight.

I'm guessing it was a matter of lowering the buy-in cost for the planes they refurbished. They probably got this airframe dirt cheap with those high hours. Maybe...

I always tell new passengers that one needs to be pretty good friends to fly together in a C-150 because the setting is pretty intimate!