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Sir I have done some international heavy shipping and I do believe you are correct. You could ship a coupe to Europe quite reasonably and still buy a coupe here at a vast savings over planes such as a piper cub. (The wings remove easily for shipping.) $18,000 is not a price so low as to provide cause for suspicion. I have seen flying Coupes bought for less than $15K. I know one that went for less than $$12K. (Couldnt resist that one. Bought it myself.) You asked why so inexpensive. In my opinion (for what it is worth, which may not be much): A Coupe is less expensive BECAUSE OF ITS ADVANTAGES. Sounds weird, but many pilots do not consider it a real airplane because it wont stall, needs no crosswind technique, and can even operate without rudder pedals (sacrilege!) I hate to lose any Ercoupes from our national pool, but, having brought home things like old European mail boxes, phone booths and other culturally irreplaceable stuff, I guess it is only fair that we let some of our best flow to you all. HOWEVER, like the other guys said, get a really good pre-buy inspection by an Ercoupe expert. Otherwise, the expenses may grow, considerably. And, if you buy a Coupe, buy all the appropriate maintenance manuals, too and make sure your maintenance man reads and uses them. Much about coupe maintenance is NOT intuitive. Nor is it like all other aircraft. Once you own a Coupe, you may, someday, upgrade, but you will never trade up. As a rule of thumb, guys who buy Coupes dont sell them. They just cannot bear to let them go. Best wishes on your endeavor, Dave W -----Original Message----- From: Jürgen P. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 7:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [COUPERS-FLYIN] Coupes in the used aircraft market ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- 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 gibt?s auf Yahoo! Clever <http://de.rd.yahoo.com/xx/searchpromo/i/tagline/cleverfp/*http://de.answers .yahoo.com> . ============================================================================ == To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm ============================================================================== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
