Tiger_Moth you'll be lucky to get a Turbi as there are very few on the British register. There are also a few Speitzer Tuholers (yes really) which are tandem open cockpit two seaters on the reg but be careful, one of them is reputed to be so overweight that a slightly leass than "svelte" 15 stone bod like myself couldn't realistically fly it with an adult in the passenger seat and fuel in the tank
It might help if you can identify potential hangar spaces as it might influence your choice of aircraft; ie a low wing Turb fits nicely in amongst high winged Cessnas and a high winged FRED will overlap low winged Pipers thus minimising the already smallish space required
It's a good idea to concentrate your cash on your PPL first of all. No good having a dinky little Turb burning up your money before you can drive it
Don't rush into getting an aeroplane. Car buying rules apply to aeroplanes as well:
1/ Don't buy the first one you see (unless it's virtually unique and/or it passes inspection by an independent set of eyes.
2/ Always test fly more than one of the same type if at all possible. Easier to do for common types obviously.
3/ Offer to pay for at least the fuel used during the test flight. It's amazing the amount of people who amass types by pretending to want to buy one and fly for nothing
4/ Get friendly with your local PFA inspector and / or tame engineer (they may be one and the same) and get him/her to check our your prospective purchase first. This may cost you 100 or so squidlets but it could save you from buying a dog. Don't forget that there are unscrupulous aeroplane sellers out there. Not many but enough to be wary of
