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No Lycoming will ever be put in this one...
Posted by bdk on Fri Jul 05, 2002 07:28:03 PM
In reply top Re: Original Me108 posted by Kenneth on Fri Jul 05, 2002 03:06:08 AM
Not because of its rarity, but because of its price. The opening bid is $525k! I'd wager it wouldn't sell for 1/3 this price... There are too many of the French copies around to dilute the market.
Would Kermit Weeks or Paul Allen be in the market for one of these? Probably not, it isn't a combat aircraft. It is cool and rare, a curiosity, but not very desireable (be realistic about this!). If you had $525k to buy a warbird with, would this aircraft be your first choice?
That being said, good luck to the owner. Maybe I am wrong and he will find the one person who just has to have this aircraft for the price he is asking... It wouldn't be the first time I have been wrong!
: There was an article by its Danish owner about this aircra
: ft in the Danish Vintage Aircraft Club's magazine some yea
: rs ago, in which he wrote about his experiences with it. H
: e also let it be known that he did not intend to fly it an
: ymore, claiming as the main reason for this decision that
: the Danish CAA would not let him paint the aircraft in ful
: l German WW2 markings (which I personally doubt). Apparent
: ly it was also only rarely flown in later years in Denmark
: ; I attended airshows regularly in Denmark from 1982 to 19
: 90 and never saw it. Bearing in mind that only about 10 "g
: enuine" Bf108's survive, I sincerely hope that very good c
: are is taken of this aircraft until it is sold, and that i
: t goes to an owner mindful of its rarity, who would not co
: ntemplate putting a Lycoming in it (it still has an Argus
: engine).