Boston or Buchon?

Thanks for the site hope to save up and buy now 😀

James

Yeah, but, if you stuck a Turbinlight in the Havocs nose, painted it up as an RAF night fighter example and flew it with the ex Beighton Hurricane, evening airshows at OW would never be the same again, got to be a winner.

All we then need is a Luftwaffe night bomber, would have to be a CASA-111 I suppose, or does matey want to wipe those off the surface of the planet as well.

Fun idea about the Turbinlight/Havoc/Hurricane set up.

Presume it would be a ‘Jaffa’, just like first time around (with 1 exception), with the 111’s swanning around unmolested 😀 .

“or does matey want to wipe those off the planet as well”……. :rolleyes:

You bet – lets rustle up some armed Beaufighters & watch those 4 x 20mm light up those 111’s a treat (& just maybe a few of those 6 x 303’s rounds might just pepper the fragments up some).

Or a Molins 57 varieties Mossie for a more thorough & dramatic effect.

….and all that for $1.2m…. bargain

My idea of a nice aircraft collection is the following:

Texan T-6, for training purposes.
Hawker Hurricane, one of my favourite piston engine aircraft
Hawker Sea Fury T.20, for advanced training and impressing friends 😉
Fairey Firefly, purely because I miss seeing one in UK skies.
NA P51 Mustang, prefereably a twin-seater, but not fussed.
Messerschmitt Bf109G, again, purely because I miss seeing one in UK skies!
de Havilland Mosquito, lovely aircraft and again, much missed in UK skies.

Such a collection flying as the full 7 ship with a ‘V’ consisting of the Hurricane, Sea Fury, 109, P51 and Firefly, and the Mosquito and T-6 in line astern in the centre of the ‘V’.

Sorry, getting carried away again 😀

Regards,

Dan

Yeah, but, if you stuck a Turbinlight in the Havocs nose, painted it up as an RAF night fighter example and flew it with the ex Beighton Hurricane, evening airshows at OW would never be the same again, got to be a winner.
All we then need is a Luftwaffe night bomber, would have to be a CASA-111 I suppose, or does matey want to wipe those off the surface of the planet as well.

So most people are for the boston eh? fine, upstanding, right thinking members of society you all are.

Daz – wrong answer – you are a loon! TT

How pleasant – being refered to as “fine, upstanding” & righteous (artistic licence :diablo: ), just for making the only logical choice 😎 .

I wouldn’t give ya £200 for the most mint Buchon on the planet – unless you let me torch it & sledgehammer the sad remnants.

If I had my way, they’d ALL have been scrapped after the ’68/’69 ‘Battle of Britain’ movie, so the world could be a much happier place & we wouldn’t have to suffer all those pseudo Luftw’ markings (Yawn) 🙁

A bomber,you can take people with you then,share costs if possible.

Like that would happen.

You would be surprised how many people [I] EXPECT[/i] the rides to be free if you own something, even as lowly as a Rearwin Cloudster.

After all, you are the rich airplane owner . . .

Mostly Complete Static Firefly AS.6 WD833 for £52,464.

Airworthy Racing Sea Fury FB.11 WH589 for £344,460.

leaving you approximately £270,000 to spend!

I would spend half of that on drink and loose women

and probably just waste the rest . . .

No contest folks, for me it would be one of the Wildcats, mind you a fully restored Mk1 Hurricane would be top of my list!

“Such things are dreams made of”

The Buchon would terrify me.

Jay

Not a regular contributor, but this thread is a bit of a laugh.

For patriotic reasons, and that we’re snowed under with spitfires at the moment, i’d spend my million on the firefly, restore it, and operate it at UK airshows in an innaccurate WWII Royal Navy Pacific scheme, and hopefully having the change to buy the DC-3 which I’d use as some kind of flying house, in order to keep close to whatever display pilot to whom I entrusted my firefly.

Jay

Of course, the C-1 Trader will allow you to take the family, luggage, camping gear, etc. with you!

Get that and the B-25!

Of course, the left-over will be for that twin-engine rating, inspections, etc.

And TJ Johansen…for $90,000 I’d be surprised if the Invader/Marketeer is flyable. From looking at Trade-A-Plane prices, I ‘d guess the $90,000 just buys you the right to spend more money.

Yes, we both have posted about that a/c on WIX.
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2211&highlight=n401y
But having been quite economic in my purchases I still have some cash left, and will use of them for it.

T J

At least the Boston is stock (yes I know the Buchon came with a Rolls)…but unless you want to mimic the Spanish Air Force, remember the Buchon is not a WWII warbird.

And TJ Johansen…for $90,000 I’d be surprised if the Invader/Marketeer is flyable. From looking at Trade-A-Plane prices, I ‘d guess the $90,000 just buys you the right to spend more money.

Since a lot of the other posters seem to go outside the Boston/Buchon boundary I’ll go for this.

Mig-17 $135.000
Yak-11 package $279.000
On-Mark Invader $90.000

Fix up both Yaks, sell one off and keep the other (with original engine!). Fix On-Mark in the colors of the prototype Marketeer (which it actually is!), fly it with crew/friends as thanks for their work. The Mig will be for those days when you’ve had a bad day at the office.

If I should abide by TT’s rules I’ll go for the Boston!

T J

Ma wee Pigeon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A bomber,you can take people with you then,share costs if possible.

You have $1,200,000 to spend.

which one do you buy?

http://www.courtesyaircraft.com/inventory%20table.htm

Boston?

or

Buchon?

TT

It would be lovely to see a Boston fly in the UK, But how many bookings it would get?.
Whilst if you buy a Buchon and paint it in some German World War Two markings better if they are Battle of Britain markings and you will probably get more bookings than a Boston would, Mind you if you paint your Buchon in its Correct Spanish Markings, I doubt it will get booked much at all.

I think i will save up a bit for the Boston though i’m only $1,200,000 short at the moment but thats a technicality really 😀

Beech 18…………….you lot know nuffin………gotta be the beech 18………..bet ya can’t guess what i want really………….yep Beech 18………..well actually an AT-11………..guns, bombs the lot.

Mostly Complete Static Firefly AS.6 WD833 for £52,464.

Airworthy Racing Sea Fury FB.11 WH589 for £344,460.