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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:34 pm    Post subject: 2+How many? Reply with quote

Anybody been following “The 18-Day Sportsman” series in Kitplanes? I was just reading the March 2007 issue where he talks about the total cost. He’s got $180,000 invested (and the TWT folks will have more in it to get to where he is) and says that he combined the back “seats” into one so his wife would have more headroom in the middle of the back. Anybody wish they were investing their $180,000-200,000 in a 2+1 Sportsman? Good choices going with the -10.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:14 pm    Post subject: 2+How many? Reply with quote

Jesse Saint wrote:
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Anybody been following “The 18-Day Sportsman” series in Kitplanes? I
was just reading the March 2007 issue where he talks about the total
cost. He’s got $180,000 invested (and the TWT folks will have more in
it to get to where he is) and says that he combined the back “seats”
into one so his wife would have more headroom in the middle of the
back. Anybody wish they were investing their $180,000-200,000 in a 2+1
Sportsman? Good choices going with the -10.

A VFR Sportsman in the Two Weeks to Taxi program is $145k. You can see
a complete list of prices at:
<http://www.glasairaviation.com/pdf/pricing/SportsmanTwoWeekstoTaxiOrderFormEffectiveJanuary8_2007.pdf>

A close approximation in the certified world is a Cessna 182 at between
two to three time the cost, so the price seems fairly reasonable
considering you could literally be flying the airplane within a few
weeks of purchasing it. You can build the Sportsman for a lot less if
you want to do it the traditional way. From reading Marc's articles, he
went with some of the more expensive options, like the Lyc IO-390 engine
and IFR avionics, and as we all know it is not hard to add another $35k
into our toys. Smile

The RV-10 and the Sportsman are really designed for completely
different missions, so I'm not really sure how much of a fair comparison
there is between them. I've test flown both the Sportsman and the
RV-10, and both have excellent flying characteristics, but are very
different airplanes. The RV-10 is a great cross country traveling
machine that travels very fast and can carry 4 people comfortably, and
the Sportsman is a great bush-type airplane good for rough, short
landing strips but still has a decent cruise speed of about 140 kts, and
can carry 300 lbs of baggage, or can have a small rear seat that holds 2
people shorter than about 5'5 (the folding wings structure limits the
headroom in the rear). Which plane you choose depends on what you want
to do with it...

My half cents, for what it is worth...

-Dj

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:29 pm    Post subject: 2+How many? Reply with quote

Then again there's is the Murphy MOOSE...(one of our EAA members is building
one at APV. 8*) KABONG Do Not Archive (pronounced MOOOTH in these
here parts.)

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Jesse Saint wrote:
> back. Anybody wish they were investing their $180,000-200,000 in a 2+1
> Sportsman? Good choices going with the -10.

A VFR Sportsman in the Two Weeks to Taxi program is $145k. You can see
a complete list of prices at:
<http://www.glasairaviation.com/pdf/pricing/SportsmanTwoWeekstoTaxiOrderFormEffectiveJanuary8_2007.pdf>

A close approximation in the certified world is a Cessna 182 at between
two to three time the cost, so the price seems fairly reasonable
considering you could literally be flying the airplane within a few
weeks of purchasing it. >
The RV-10 and the Sportsman are really designed for completely
different missions, so I'm not really sure how much of a fair comparison
there is between them.


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