Recently decided to come back to flying and everyone on this site has been super cool and I've got some folks I may ride with this month and it's been great.
Have been looking for an RV9 and found one in Canada, started talking to the broker for the guy - it's an inexpensive VFR platform that's fine, basic stuff and is still flying on weekends, decent cold compression - it's fine, we might move forward with an inspection.
Pricewise, it's at the low end of the market. ($60K) Perhaps owing to steam gauges and (minor?) damage history to nosewheel (rebuilt after ballooned landing and a prop strike, replaced, engine checked).
By contrast well-equipped IFR platforms (which I want eventually) seem to be 85-95K. So that's a pretty big range, low-end VFR 60K - high end IFR 95K
So the question is how hard is it to export a plane out of Canada (now that we can't go there, obviously harder) and import it into the US? Is it worth it to save 20,000 on a plane that's been damaged.
My understanding from talking to a few people is the import inspection is like the mother of all annuals, you hope to obtain an experimental amateur built status and it's not a given. So...is it worth it? The headache...?
I might be willing to do it to save 25K on the price of an airplane...
Is it worth messing with to try to get a plane out of Canada - the broker doesn't want to use escrow, which I'm completely not comfortable with - he thinks I should just wire HIM the money...the whole thing is beginning to make me scratch my head.
I've never bought a plane, I've been out of aviation for 10 years...I don't want to make a mess of it just coming back into the industry.
I'm actually ASKING for people to weigh in so that I can get a lot of ideas on this so I'm not missing anything...I need some other voices besides the ones in my head that keep saying I'm wasting my time. Any thoughts? Any importers?
Isn't 60K really low? Is it a scam? It's on Trade-A-Plane, but I don't think they're screening ads...And the broker who doesn't want to use escrow?
No money or documents have been exchanged yet...
Anyone? Please feel free to enlighten me.
Thanks for the advice...
Have been looking for an RV9 and found one in Canada, started talking to the broker for the guy - it's an inexpensive VFR platform that's fine, basic stuff and is still flying on weekends, decent cold compression - it's fine, we might move forward with an inspection.
Pricewise, it's at the low end of the market. ($60K) Perhaps owing to steam gauges and (minor?) damage history to nosewheel (rebuilt after ballooned landing and a prop strike, replaced, engine checked).
By contrast well-equipped IFR platforms (which I want eventually) seem to be 85-95K. So that's a pretty big range, low-end VFR 60K - high end IFR 95K
So the question is how hard is it to export a plane out of Canada (now that we can't go there, obviously harder) and import it into the US? Is it worth it to save 20,000 on a plane that's been damaged.
My understanding from talking to a few people is the import inspection is like the mother of all annuals, you hope to obtain an experimental amateur built status and it's not a given. So...is it worth it? The headache...?
I might be willing to do it to save 25K on the price of an airplane...
Is it worth messing with to try to get a plane out of Canada - the broker doesn't want to use escrow, which I'm completely not comfortable with - he thinks I should just wire HIM the money...the whole thing is beginning to make me scratch my head.
I've never bought a plane, I've been out of aviation for 10 years...I don't want to make a mess of it just coming back into the industry.
I'm actually ASKING for people to weigh in so that I can get a lot of ideas on this so I'm not missing anything...I need some other voices besides the ones in my head that keep saying I'm wasting my time. Any thoughts? Any importers?
Isn't 60K really low? Is it a scam? It's on Trade-A-Plane, but I don't think they're screening ads...And the broker who doesn't want to use escrow?
No money or documents have been exchanged yet...
Anyone? Please feel free to enlighten me.
Thanks for the advice...