Hi,
I'm building a business case to offer European Tours in a DC3 as part of a Business degree course - the idea is that it'd be a sort of "Orient Express of the air". I'm trying to build the cost model for operations and choose some European airfields but have struggled to find out the following information. Any advice would be much appreciated:
Q1. How long a runway does the (typical) DC3 need? I'm assuming grass will be OK.
Q2. Any idea of the hourly running costs? I can't find any information on maintenance schedules or tasks but I need some numbers to build the financial model.
Q3. Are there any people in the UK (individuals, organisations or companies) I should be contacting to find out all this stuff?
I've spotted G-DAKK for sale for £150k (
http://www.eurofly.co.uk/dakotasale/dakkprice.htm) so this is what I'm going to build my model on.
Any advice on any of the above would be much appreciated. You never know, if the business plan stacks up, I might be asking for pilots soon!