This flew in Rockford, IL yesterday. Pilot's a great guy I fly with, former F-15 pilot. Cool stuff.
That can't be cheap
They have two at Pride. At least one of them is for sale, around 5 million is what I remember as the asking price.
5 mil doesn't sound too bad, considering what you are getting for it. That thing looks pretty slick too...looked like a very short takeoff roll. How are these guys able to afford to operate these? If only I had that kind of drug money!
I'm surprised ATAC (or someone like them) hasn't snatched these bad boys up.....any legality issues with this maybe?
I wonder if you have to buy a maintenance contract from them in addition to the asking price. Seems like that would be pretty integral to owning such an aircraft.
Not to mention having people familiar with the systems, everything from the instrumetns to the engines would be completely different than what the vast majority of maintainers in the US are trained on or have even seen. Should I go on?
Come on, there HAS to be a hot Russain mailorder bride out there who has some prior enlisted mx experience somewhere
I see what you are saying though.....to be honest, I would have guessed that a Hawker or A-4 would be relatively expensive as well to maintain, though certainly easier to acquire parts for.
That's really freaking cool....thanks for sharing. I'm wondering, if they have to divert somewhere without the ladders, how they get out? It doesn't look like the LEX's would be very easy to scale down the side of (assuming they have a pull down ladder a la Hornet underneath)