Glen, you hit it right on the head. I can sell a 150 in one week for $18,000 and it takes me one year to sell a ercoupe for $12,000!! And the ercoupe is a better plane. But the ercoupe is here to stay!!! I think 250 more of them have come out of the barns and garages the last 15 years and are now flying. The wing AD will pass. We can get all the parts for this plane, thats why it's here to stay. We need to be buying these parts so Univair can keep making them. The ercoupers do have defects (spars, gas tanks, brakes) but can all be fixed for really a small cost compaired to other planes. gene
Glen Ward wrote: > You are right about the safety issue, but I don't believe there is much of a > 21st century for these planes, Gene. Prices have been going up in the past > but it may be that people will be facing facts on the older 415's and > Forneys real soon. Already over half a century, and already it is the kind > of thing that maybe a lot of first time buyers won't even consider - too > old, they get a 150. I like mine I just bought but I do not want to be > flying it for more than a few years. Maybe a graceful retirement will be > better than having a bunch of wings fall off then the feds get all excited. > This issue is a coming thing, sooner or later folks are going to have to > face it. The Ercoupe could easily be the first to go, maybe the Luscombe, > they are both pretty neglected compared to the Cubs which have so much > Nostalgia value. Both have problems. The coupe is neat but it was having > problems even in the 50's. That was not due to old parts. Maybe they > worked it out with the ADs but the same old failures may crop up if they > keep going and going, weakening from corrosion and fatigue. Some folks love > them so much they won't admit to their defects. Glen
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