EX-IAC Aircraft Forsale

logie101

http://www.controller.com/listingsdetail/aircraft-for-sale/SIAI-MARCHETTI-SF260W/1977-SIAI-MARCHETTI-SF260W/1140597.htm

Sounds like alot of money? I wonder what the air Corp sold these for.

CharlieCroker

they prob sold them for half that knowing our government.

EchoIndia

Given that they were sold by public tender, the price that was got would have been whatever someone was prepared to pay for them. I don't know what that was. In terms of the asking price in the above link, you have to consider (a) what price the seller may actually be willing to accept and (b) what he may have spent to render the aircraft into its current condition.

Manic Moran

The same person had two such aircraft on Trade-a-Plane about a year, year and a half ago. Was asking about $170k for them. Considered driving down to photograph them next time I was in the area.

If I had the money.... (Hey, who am I kidding, I'm not even rated for 'high performance, let alone complex).

Group buy, maybe?

NTM

CaptainSkidmark

she looks in top shape considering its a 1977!

Fishtits

My embedded memory of said type is a tragic one, bogged in a field on the Cavan border. Family arrived by Dauphin to inspect.

Not the most pilot friendly aircraft ever built if bar stool reports from pilots are to be believed.

She was touchy about stall speeds IIRC.

youtheman

There were two separate fatal Air Corps crashes involving the Marchetti, one in the 1980s and the other in the 1990's (both with 'low time' pilots flying solo). None were directly attributed to the aircraft per se.

The Marchetti is widely recognised as the 'Ferrari' of the piston aircraft, 260 hp and aerobatic. The panel is full IFR, and had been significantly upgraded since the 1970's (as can be seen in the advert photo).

I know in the U.S. they use the Marchetti for 'Top Gun' simulation flying (see http://www.attitudeaviation.com/marchetti.html ). So they will hold their value well and get a good price.