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Getting a brand-new aircraft is about the same as the resale market. Aircraft manufac- turers are seeing Q4 as the earliest availability and for many it is next year.
buy a Blackhawk King Air C90B. We had a client who had simple requirements and a reasonable budget; the problem was, there were zero airplanes that were worthy of buying. We made exhaustive efforts to find something off market, to no avail. The client raised the budget to consider B200s; we found one and made an offer. A couple of days later we were outbid by $150,000! My first instinct was to walk, but my client made a statement that became concrete in my mind in
9 the months that followed. He said
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“Chip, I don’t want to be sitting here with a wheelbarrow full of cash in a few months that won’t buy this airplane.”
It was the moment when I accepted that things were changing and the days of pleasant but strong
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