A friend has been appointed administrator of his late brother's estate. Among the items in the estate are 2 20' trailers with disassembled airplanes in them. One is some sort of Lycoming and the other holds a plane called a J3 Kitten. Is there a newsgroup for aircraft enthusiasts similar to this one where he can ask questions about the value of what he has and how to sell them?
Engineman
Here's a few:
net.aviation.homebuilt net.aviation.marketplace rec.aviation rec.aviation.homebuilt rec.aviation.markeplace rec.aviation.restoration
Jon
Unfortunately none have had much traffic lately...
My dad is active in the EAA - Experimental Aircraft Association.
Wikipedia entries on ultralights like the J3
Also:
and of course ebay.
Dave
Or contact the EAA and see if there's an active club in your area -- if you're lucky, there is one, and there'll be someone in the club who can help out with that sort of thing.
Don't be surprised if the value is way lower than you think it should be. People from 'outside' an enthusiast group can get enthralled by the prices for some pro-built super-zoot thing and think that it applies to everything. It doesn't -- the value of a half-assembled kit is often less than the value of a factory new kit; the value of an owner-assembled 'knock-around' airplane is going to be much less than the same thing that's built to win trophies at shows (assuming they have such things).
Yep, not a lot of value here. Even a nicely completed owner assembled plane is not worth that much. My dad had his RV-8 for sale for nearly a year. He finally got $60K. About the price of the parts. And he had
6000 hours build time in it.Karl
Dunno if this has any applicability here, but one of my coworkers has a souped-up Bucket T roadster that's been appraised at 35K, and my cousin Owen in Lake Crystal, Minnesota still has Grampa's original equipment Model A that you'd have to pay somebody to haul away, wood floorboards and all.
Cheers! Rich
The 'A' is probably worth something -- even one that grew up on salted roads and had a tree fall on it is probably still worth a few hundred if it's got most of the parts. But unless it's either rare or in superlative condition it's probably somewhere in three digits territory.
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