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All, I am new to this group. I live in Germany and am a novice pilot, having trained on C150's mostly and some on C172's. I am a big fan of vintage aircraft and have recently by coincidence come across the Forney Ercoupe/ Alon Aircoupe. I must say it seems very easy to get infatuated by this beauty and from the engineering angle, I think the Coupes are definitely covering is an amazing piece of aviation history, too. I am actually wondering why the production of the Coupe did not totally outnumber its main competitors. Who would want to fly a Cessna 150 when you can fly a Coupe? Based on that thought, I have browsed ads for Coupes in "globalplanesearch.com" and was surprised about the price levels of most of the offers. Can anybody tell me why it is that I can apparently buy a coupe at half or about a third of the price of a Piper Cub made around the same time? E.g. this one, where the asking price is $ 18,000.-- http://www.ipilot.com/classifieds/display.aspx?pid=9992 I am wondering whether something must be "wrong" with it, or whether I have just not looked for the right things so far. I will have to check about how tedious or expensive it would be to buy an N-registered Coupe in the U.S., bring it here and have it German-registered. To my knowledge, only 11 Coupes are flying in Germany today. The thought to complete the dozen tickles me! Grateful for your feedback! Regards from overseas Juergen --------------------------------- Was ist Glück? Schlafen Fische überhaupt? Die Antworten gibts auf Yahoo! Clever. ============================================================================== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
