July 5, 2010 at 9:37 pm
being totally unique and up for sale, has anyone got any idea on what sort of price I should offer for a one off aircraft?
By: WJ244 - 6th July 2010 at 20:41
I think Avion Ancien has about summed it up.
One view is that a one off is unique and therefore desirable and presumerably expensive articularly if it is a well known airframe with an interesting history.
On the other hand there is still a lot to do to get the Bluetit into the air and I would imagine that its flying qualities and abilities must be a bit of an unknown so this must count against it when determining a price.
By: avion ancien - 6th July 2010 at 07:45
G-ASEA said no more than that it was being advertised for sale in the LAA magazine. From what T-Bolt says, presumably the advertisement carried no asking price. I suspect that it would be impossible accurately to value an “one off”, 80 years old aeroplane. Thus I suspect that the most practical answer to your question, T-Bolt, is to approach the owner, ascertain the price he is seeking and use that as a guideline as to whether to pay that price; or to enable you to decide what offer you might make that will not insult the owner but will be comfortable with your personal perception of its value; or to walk away with the opinion that the owner’s perception of its value is more than you would be prepared to pay.
By: Newforest - 5th July 2010 at 22:52
Sort of, but the question was never answered!
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=100840&highlight=Blake+Bluetit
By: avion ancien - 5th July 2010 at 22:44
Err, hasn’t this been done already on another thread some weeks ago?