I wish! I still want to own my own plane, but I just don't know if it'll ever actually happen. The post 9/11 world makes it difficult for anyone to own. :
At $16,000 per year simply to insure the aircraft, plus the high initial purchase price, hanger/storage fees and the fuel prices, it's just getting killer for folks to own airplanes of their own.
That's why right now, it's a dream and not a whole lot else.
A brand new, base Cessna 172 Skyhawk (so a 'step down' from the Skylane) is $234,500. Want AC? That's another $28k. That's a total of $262,500. That's over $100,000 more than I paid for my house, and over $40,000 more than it's approx. current worth.
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That's why right now, it's a dream and not a whole lot else.
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I guess the days that my dad grew up in and then I grew up in are gone. I remember when a new Skylane was $18,000.
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Yeah, it's a bit different now.
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