Originally Posted by
PW305
generalizing here maybe?
Nope. I have seen it first hand. With the purchase price of a Gulfstream, the maintenence bills, and paying for pilots (contract or otherwise), you can't make money on a Gulfstream. The metric of fliyng it 135 and adhearing to a duty day doesn't comeout on the plus side. Not to mention a Gulfstreams typical trip is to fly somewhere, sit for a few days and fly back. All that down time equals lost revenue. Ever seen the cost of a set of brake on a G4? I have a friend who specalizes in Gulfstream and Hawker spares. A set of brakes for a G# IIRC was recently sold for over $100k. Not new, but reconditioned. A set of main wheels was $54k. You can make money in lumps, but it goes right back into the airplane. Anything with the name Gulfstream attached to it is going to cost on parts. Heck, the hush kits for a G2 are almost as much as a G2 costs now. $1.5m for an airplane that can be had for $1.5m.
$400,000
1968 GULFSTREAM II Jet Aircraft For Sale At Controller.com
QTA recently started doing the hush kits again for $1.25M
Stage III hush kits revived: AINonline