[simpits-tech] If I were an A&P with about $30k to blow.....

[David C. Allen]

Matt
You should buy it and get started, lots of people do their own work 
and a trusting A&P will inspect and sign off.

Send your wife to flight school!

David
www.737FlightSim.com



At 09:45 PM 10/26/2013 -0500, you wrote:
>Someone should get this thing and fly it:
>
>http://www.ebay.com/itm/221304377690
>
>I see projects pop up like this now and then (in fact this plane has
>been posted on ebay a couple times now), sure would be nice to have
>some extra $$$ and an A&P+IA cert so I could build myself a little
>family hauler.
>
>Doing your own work, it would probably take $30k or so for
>engines/props and some basic ebay radios (again, if you have the
>training/certs, you can sign off untagged radios after a proper
>inspection yourself). Not bad for a 150+kts 6 seater retractable-gear
>twin with fresh paint and interior.
>
>Ooorrrr, an enterprising mechanic could buy timed-out engines for
>cheap, do the overhauls himself, and possibly cut the engine costs in
>half. You could have a flyable plane for less than a new mid-level
>sedan!
>
>Matt
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