I sold it about 8 months after I added the options.

See the thing was, the guy had been looking for a decent plane all over,
everyone he said he looked at was ragged out, rusted out or something.
He Said he was tired of looking and since my plane wasnt not ragged out, rusted
out and had good avionics he took it. A CFI I know who was building time ferried
it to his airport for him. The guy who bought it was a pilot for an airline. I
picked him up at the vegas airport when he flew in took him to see the plane
then had to hurry him back for his return flight.
You may be surprised at some of the planes being sold and prices people ask for
them. I looked at alot of planes before settling on the turbo arrow I got.

"Tom S." wrote:

"Jeff" wrote in message
...
It was march of this year.
Maybe he just knew a good deal when he saw it.
If you take care of your plane, it will take care of you.

His comments were that he was glad to finally look at a plane that wasnt
trashed
out and had good avionics.


How soon after adding the upgrades did you sell it?

Adding avionics to a plane is like adding options to a used car; you seldom
get much back when you sell it. Like buying a car, it depreciates by about
2/3rds just driving it off the dealers lot.

"Tom S." wrote:

"Jeff" wrote in message
...
This is not always true, when I sold my old cherokee 180, I had put a
new
garmin stack in, 430,x-ponder, audio panel and some other stuff, I got
back
90% of what I had into the plane, plus, it sold in 4 days.


It must have been a good market then because that is quite extraordinary
(unless you're dealing with someone who has more money than buying
savvy).

http://www.planedata.com/aircraft%20...%20methods.htm