According to the engineers, each one cost over half a million bucks by the time it was on the Australian register. Think how many good second hand 172s or Warriors you could have got for that. Would be interesting to know how much Soar paid for them and what they would go for now. ACFT was just one in a long line of VET funded schools that went belly up leaving staff and students in the lurch. And here we are six years later and the people who dish out the money have learned nothing.