Originally Posted by
Old Boeing Driver
It's been awhile since I operated the G-III, but wouldn't the Spey cores be worth $200K each? I would think the original seller could have parted it out for more than $400K just by selling the Speys and APU to Dallas Airmotive (or equivalent), and selling the rest to someone like Dodson.
Like you said it's been awhile since you operated a GIII. I bid against Dodson, I think it was, on a beautiful hangared GIISP. (With the same 2 Speys.) But the guy died and by the time the bank could foreclose it was out of inspection. Beautiful airplane. I think their last bid was $70,000 so I got it for $75,000. I couldn't believe that. It was beautiful. But as good of a deal as it was it wasn't as good as the GIII for $400,000. You can't believe how much fun it was flying around in that thing for 6 months for $40 in parts.