4-Seat a/c for sale with 500 engine hours. £16k. What am I missing?

[Bob Upanddown]

Aircraft are cheap because there is hardly any market.

That's a sweeping statement which is just not right.

There is a small market in the UK but that's not why they are cheap.

This particular trader is, in a small market, selling an aircraft cheap for a quick return (watch how quickly his stock turns over compared to more established brokers). It is just unfortunate that people will look at other aircraft they are buying and expect to pay the same. It is a question of knowing the price, not the value.
M&S have had to compete on price whilst quality of their products has dropped to compensate for the lower price. Those who want quality have gone elsewhere. M&S knickers are cheap but only because they have made them cheap to compete. The market for knickers is huge.

[A le Ron]

I have bought two aircraft from Just Plane Trading and found them to be completely straight and open. So if the OP is genuinely interested, why not give them a call?

[Flyingmac]

I was involved in collecting an aircraft from Plane Trading not so long ago.
I think the buyer did a couple of hours in it before succumbing to an offer of around 35 percent more than he'd paid for it. Never heard a bad word about JPT. Plenty of positive comments.

[Bob Upanddown]

I wasn't knocking JPT. The comment regarding value, quality and price was aimed at M&S knickers, not JPT, in an attempt to explain that a small market does not make things sold in that market cheap.