Guys (and if applicable Dolls) hi
Many thanks for letting me draw on the collective experience.
I’m grateful for the help seeing my way through this, and my thoughts are starting to crystallise now. These are all attractive designs, optimised differently. The Europa tends to be a bit too new (pronounced expensive) just yet, but each of the other four is a pleasure to contemplate.
To some extent it will depend on what is available; shares North of Watford seem to come up much less often than in the South, let alone one within sensible distance of home.
Thanks again for the patience of the replies – a tribute to pprune.
Happy landings to all – and if you see a bright light over Shropshire it will be the grin when I finally sort this opportunity out and go flying in my own (shared) aircraft!