Prices For Used Aircraft Taking A Steep Dive
A neat two-seater sports model at £195? Or would you prefer a more substantial family runabout at £225? No, these are not quotations from a used-car market—they are prices quoted for aircraft at airfields all over Britain. Second-hand aircraft prices, low since the world was flooded with exservice machines, have now taken another dive. Apart from little club machines (“60 h.p. Tipsy monoplane; 85 miles an hour cruising; 20 miles to the gallon; £325,) there are bargains in big transport and passenger aircraft. Some are selling at one-hundredth of their original cost. You can buy a second-hand Halifax four-engined ex-bomber for £1000; a Lancastrian, civil version of the Lancaster bomber, costs £2000; a six-seater Rapide airliner, with Certificate of Airworthiness, costs £I4OO. A modern Aerovan freighter, with spare engine, costs £750.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 84, 11 January 1950, Page 2
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