I sold my airplane and now I am irked
bpost
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I sold my Cessna 172H for twice what I paid for it, that sale got me out of a horridly ran airport that has become little more than a storage area for junk cars and the resulting drunks having beer parties working on the junk cars driving cars in taxi ways.
Now for the part that irks me. Since I sold the Cessna I decided to play the lottery weekly to gain the funds needed to order a brand new Cessna 182 with full glass panel. Well, I ain't won so I am still short one airplane. When I do win and place my order I figure it will be only about $700,000 for a new one. Mere pocket change for a winner of 400 million bucks.
Well, gotta go now, the gas station is open and I need to give them my 2 bucks so I cam win enough to place the order. Wish me luck!
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In order to keep a long-running gun forum tradition alive, we must now tell you that a Cessna 182 is junk, nothing but carp. Nothing less than a Lear Jet is good enough.
Oh Rocky... The Lear is sooo yesteryear. What Bruce really needs is a Hondajet.
(Just trying to keep the tradition alive...😁)
But my barber's niece's stock advisor said he ordered a HondaJet and they were weeks late delivering it, and when they did, one of the tray tables was broken. So they're junk, too. 😥 Lear is like a 1911 of airplanes.
I figured you may get a chopper .
One thing's for certain. You won't win if you don't play.
But, you also can't lose if you don't play...
"One thing's for certain. You won't win if you don't play.".................not true, according to my e-mail I win 2 or3 three of these a day
With only a 200 million to 1 lottery odds you stand a chance of getting another. Good luck.
The only way you're going to win at that lotto game is if you take ALL of those proceeds from the sold airplane and spend it all at once on tickets. 😲
Then! When you get tired of sorting out all of the 1 and 2 dollar winners and recover the tiny miniscule amount you spent, you'll have a much better story of being IRKED to post here! 😁
Seriously! Congrats on the sale of your plane bpost!
Boats may be a hole in the water where you pour money, but a plane makes your cash disappear into thin air.
I almost had to hit the disagree button here, but such punitive action seems overboard and I restrained myself. Close call!
You should know, sadly, LearJet as a business stopped manufacturing planes in Q4 2021.
I think his only option is to find a nice, used Cessna 172H and simply build his own airport.
The real question gentlemen, is what oil will he be running in the new plane?
Bruce, glad you doubled your money. Hope you replace it with what you want. Sorry the airport is going to the dogs.
Just don’t do like I did. I bought property, built a runway, used it twice and then sold my ‘48 170! Duh….
I have friends coming in now and then and that is great.
I still have the XP-TALON for sale but it is too fast for the grass runway.
If you double you money, will Uncle Sam want part of it?
Dano, I've never owned an airplane either. But Uncle Sugar loaned me quite a few.
Well - someone won 'MegaMillions' - but it wasn't me. Otherwise I would be on the way to Savannah, Georgia to have them build me a long-range 8 seater jet and to Moultrie, Georgia to have Maule build me a 'Mule' with the biggest 'Thrush' turbo-prop the could shoe-horn into the cowling. Best Regards - AQH
There are more planes under water, than there are boats in the air. A big boat is the way to go.
Long range planes have flotation devices, but I have never seen a ship equipped with parachutes.
I worked at Honda for 25.5 years when they told us about the jet I was taken back but not to surprised the company is always expanding from lawn moweres to jets to robots
a long way from putting left over surplus engines on bicycles as Mr. Honda started out . lots of stories but another day
I will toss this out there it came out not long after the honda jet LOL LOL
You need a B29 Or B26 or if you want a single engine go with a P47 or 51. Hard to mount guns on a 182.
Bruce, get yourself a Grumman Widgeon! Best of both worlds. A boat and a plane!
Famous aviator, Merill Wein, lived on the airport where I lived. He had one and I went up with him a couple of times. Had a blast landing on some local lakes.
That video's a hoot, DR! LOL!
Cessna 182?? Nahhhhh, what you really want is a Maule M7 Super Rocket 235.
This is how we got to the gold mine and back.
Sweet!
I think it's obvious that a Cessna won't satisfy anyone's need for speed.
How about a Mig 29 with low hours ?
Milsurps are where it's at, . . . , afterall.
Heck! With all of that disposable cash on hand, just anny up and buy one of these!
😁 We're getting closer to the age of George Jetson!
This was out on the lake a couple of summer ago, Bruce. If I see it this summer, do you want me to ask about pricing?
Here is another goose, Bruce. However this one is on my roof.
Brad Steele
I flew on Wein air in Alaska many times years ago, maybe with him in the left seat.
Mule
Yep I worked for the old coot. Great guy.
Bruce, just get a nice car or motorcycle.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Only problem with a Lear is the headroom. I'm 6'5" and CANNOT fit in the cockpit. Besides, who makes floats for a Lear? I mean c'mon. Look at it sensibly.
What you WANT is an A-10. First in line for departure from the county strip, guaranteed.
I came into my airport one day and there on the runway was Merrill’s Widgeon sitting there with a big long skid mark behind it! He had done a boo boo, landed with the gear up! I landed on the taxiway and went to help Jack it up and lower the gear. He was embarrassed but humble as hell. He really was a peach of a guy.
Ouch!!! I still have one of his rain coats here somewhere.
Does it work in the snow?
Buy a super yacht with a helicopter instead and join the big boys club, then get an island for yourself and family and establish your homestead until the bottle neck passes in about 10 years from now, Just watch out for typhoons,volcanoes tidal waves and earth quakes. 😁
serf
No that's the coat I wear during the month when it's not snowing... It's raining.