swisspilot
Well-Known Member
I have a friend here who is interested in buying an airplane and I would have to take care of it for him.
He has a pretty limited budget, the airplane is going to be sent here to Brazil (ad a good 20% to the cost of the plane to do that).
His plan is to keep it reg in the US, the only problem is that this way we will have to pay more for AVGAS (N reg pay about 50% more), normal price is already more expensive here then in the US.
What is he looking for:
2 place, 4 would be nice but not really necessary if that can keep the costs down
<10 gph
100-110 kts cruise speed
Budget 25k
200-300 NM range
Most likely the airplane is going to be based at a small grass runway, we don't need a STOL, but something with good short filed performance would be nice, the plane has also to be pretty strong because the runway is not in good shape.
We looked at Piper cubs, but they are out of budget, slow, and don't have any range. Here in Brazil there are not many places to get AVGAS and they are far apart.
Aeroncas Champ and Chief are also nice but a lot slower then what we are looking for.
I was thinking at a Piper Pacer or tri pacer (a Colt would be fine but seems that for couple more $ you can get a 4 seater faster pacer), they are in our range and there are many of them for sale.
An other option I was looking at are Cessnas 120-140, they seem to be cheap: very good performance on little gas.
Some 170s out there are in our range but I don't know much about them, but there are many of them here in Brazil.
You can find a C170 project for the same price as a C120, lets say the planes are in the same shape would it cost the same to fix them up? or the C170 is going to need more work and $?
Any ideas?
He has a pretty limited budget, the airplane is going to be sent here to Brazil (ad a good 20% to the cost of the plane to do that).
His plan is to keep it reg in the US, the only problem is that this way we will have to pay more for AVGAS (N reg pay about 50% more), normal price is already more expensive here then in the US.
What is he looking for:
2 place, 4 would be nice but not really necessary if that can keep the costs down
<10 gph
100-110 kts cruise speed
Budget 25k
200-300 NM range
Most likely the airplane is going to be based at a small grass runway, we don't need a STOL, but something with good short filed performance would be nice, the plane has also to be pretty strong because the runway is not in good shape.
We looked at Piper cubs, but they are out of budget, slow, and don't have any range. Here in Brazil there are not many places to get AVGAS and they are far apart.
Aeroncas Champ and Chief are also nice but a lot slower then what we are looking for.
I was thinking at a Piper Pacer or tri pacer (a Colt would be fine but seems that for couple more $ you can get a 4 seater faster pacer), they are in our range and there are many of them for sale.
An other option I was looking at are Cessnas 120-140, they seem to be cheap: very good performance on little gas.
Some 170s out there are in our range but I don't know much about them, but there are many of them here in Brazil.
You can find a C170 project for the same price as a C120, lets say the planes are in the same shape would it cost the same to fix them up? or the C170 is going to need more work and $?
Any ideas?
