The simple answer is a lot. Ballpark figures might be:-
Hangarage (if you can find it) £120-£300 per month
Fuel 6 gals/hr £50 per hour
Oil £3/hr on a good engine
Insurance Upwards of £1000/year depending on experience and hull value
Maintenance £2000 per year but highly variable
But the elephant in the room is the engine. A rebuild on one at our strip cost £24K and led to the group folding
I’d have a trial flight first and see if you really enjoy it. Hope this helps.
Nicely put David and a lovely photograph to round off the year. Let’s hope it’s not prophetic in the sense that the airliners are not moving off into the sunset.
And Airspace has had a lot of work done to it’s roof recently.
Couldn’t agree more Chris but apparently the “tableaux” idea is “passe” (getting very French here) and so the LWH has had it’s day. The contents will then be spread amongst the rest of the exhibits. I suppose the argument is that it’s a branch of the Imperial WAR Museum, not just an air museum. In addition the LWH is apparently very leaky and is difficult to make waterproof.
Good name for a shed.
Part of the plan for the redevelopment of the Land Warfare area.
Possibly replace either the York or the Hastings in Airspace as being a more significant type? Or maybe in the new “shed” proposed for the Land Warfare area.
Nice picture David but that Viscount should be indoors.
For those of you not familiar with and/or cannot be bothered to look up G-INFO, the aircraft referred to in “civil aero’s” post are a Puss Moth, SE5 replica, Tiger Moth and Super Cub respectively. A fairly eclectic group and I’m looking forward to seeing the Puss Moth especially.
Monarch Engineering are still going. Perhaps they could “acquire” it for “training purposes”?
Is it going to be a flyer?
Because the excellent Duxford photographers pride themselves on capturing anything unusual that moves or flies at Duxford. Thanks for your efforts chaps.
Some lovely shots, thanks for posting. The formation of the B-17, B-29 and B-52 was very impressive and looked pretty tight.
Crikey, I’d pay serious money to see/hear that in real life. Makes Reno seem almost tame by comparison. Thanks for posting it.
Thanks for posting. As you say, the Schneider Trophy racers are real jewels. I’d love to see and hear one of them take off from an Italian lake but I guess that’s not possible.