Originally Posted by
Lindenberg
I am interested in buying a 150. In theory I'd buy it, fly it like crazy for a few months, then sell. All in hopes to have no maintenance issues and only plan on flying for 200-300 hours. The cheapest 150 around to rent from a flight school is $87 an hour so if all went to plan it would work out well. I know nothing in aviation goes to plan but i can still hope. Any suggestions, previous experience with this, or ideas would be appreciated.
I just rented a C150 dry for $30 an hour, ran car gas in it only, so the total hourly cost was about $50 an hour. Check local laws, but you may also be able to get 87 octane gasoline from a farm coop for it. Make sure it is ethanol- free, filtered gasoline. My advice is to advertise around town for a rental 150 and let someone else do the owning for you. The reason to buy one would be you cannot find a rental, or you always wanted a 45 year old VW beetle that also flies.