Zlin526

Just looking through Ebay (I should be flying but It's raining!), and you have a choice of a Gnat at £100,000 (HOW MUCH???) or a Practavia Sprite for £10,000 (Sellers name - prat001!). A few months ago there was a Callair crop sprayer for sale.

Has anyone ever bought an aeroplane like this? I think if I was going to buy, I'd like to have a very good look at the logs etc before entering into an auction..

Evo

Good publicity - only costs you £2 to list it, and i'll bet there has been a conversation about "that Gnat on ebay" in half the flying clubs in the country...

And (at least) one PPRuNer has won an aeroplane on ebay

Aerohack

'Tis said that someone once bought a Gulfstream IV on eBay.

LowNSlow

Have a root through kingy 's posts as twas him that won the Flaglor(spl?) SkyScooter.

I've bought a Spitfire on eBay, unfortunately the 1.3 litre version by Triumph not the 27 litre version by Supermarine , and it was easy. After wining the bid, turn up at the chap's house, give the vehicle the once over, if it's not as advertised walk away. If it's as per spec you hand over the cash and take it home.

Mmmm I've always fancied a Sprite, remember reading the flight test in Pilot many moons ago. Anybody want to buy some shares in a nice Auster Autocrat? If you do, pm me.

VP8

There was the TU144 that went for 11.5millusd last year !!

VEEPS

QDMQDMQDM

Happens quite a lot in the US I think. Not out of the ordinary there to buy aa plane on ebay.

QDM

Kingy

Hi Chaps,

As L'n'S said, I indeed bought a plane on Ebay. :The Flaglor Sky Scooter .

I put in a bid for not much money and ended up winning the damn thing! Seriously, I picked up a beautifully built, freshly permited PFA single seater with only 40hrs TT for just over £1500 quid.

I put a cheque in the post, talked to the guy on the phone a few times, but did not actually see the aircraft until I flew across the country to pick it up. The whole affair turned into a bit of a fiasco, but I just managed to ferry it back to base that day (a 120NM X/C). I wrote a pirep about the whole affair, which has done the rounds with a few PPRuNe friends...

I buy and sell stuff on Ebay all the time, I've bought and sold cars, high value sound equipment and watches amonst other things and have never had a problem.

Go on 'av a bid - It's not real life after-all!

Kingy (feed back rating 62!)