even with just the "possibility" of the 505 getting built and certified within the next year ??!!
( if it does get built and sold )
Without reading all 14 pages of this topic, why wouldn't it be built / produced/ sold??? Can't see any single reason, especially in this economic climate, for Bell to build a show off, even partly from re-circulated parts... Doesn't make much sense to produce 3 prototypes, fly them more than 700hrs (seemingly successfully) up to date and then say: "Naah, f*** it".
Darn ugly it is tough. But I guess with the planned pricetag you can't have it all...