A friend has been appointed administrator of his late brother's
estate.
Among the items in the estate are 2 20' trailers with disassembled
airplanes in them.
One is some sort of Lycoming and the other holds a plane called a J3
Kitten.
Is there a newsgroup for aircraft enthusiasts similar to this one
where he can ask questions about the value of what he has and how to
sell them?

Engineman

On 5/3/2011 4:32 PM, engineman wrote:

Is there a newsgroup for aircraft enthusiasts similar to this one
where he can ask questions about the value of what he has and how to
sell them?

Here's a few:

net.aviation.homebuilt
net.aviation.marketplace
rec.aviation
rec.aviation.homebuilt
rec.aviation.markeplace
rec.aviation.restoration


Jon

Jon Anderson wrote:
On 5/3/2011 4:32 PM, engineman wrote:

Is there a newsgroup for aircraft enthusiasts similar to this one
where he can ask questions about the value of what he has and how to
sell them?

Here's a few:

net.aviation.homebuilt
net.aviation.marketplace
rec.aviation
rec.aviation.homebuilt
rec.aviation.markeplace
rec.aviation.restoration


Jon

Unfortunately none have had much traffic lately...


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On Mon, 2 May 2011 23:32:57 -0700 (PDT), engineman
wrote:

A friend has been appointed administrator of his late brother's
estate.
Among the items in the estate are 2 20' trailers with disassembled
airplanes in them.
One is some sort of Lycoming and the other holds a plane called a J3
Kitten.
Is there a newsgroup for aircraft enthusiasts similar to this one
where he can ask questions about the value of what he has and how to
sell them?

Engineman

My dad is active in the EAA - Experimental Aircraft Association.
http://www.eaa.org/

I see it has a Forums section.

On May 3, 2:32*am, engineman wrote:
A friend has been appointed administrator of his late brother's
estate.
Among the items in the estate are 2 20' trailers with disassembled
airplanes in them.
One is some sort of Lycoming and the other holds a plane called a J3
Kitten.
Is there a newsgroup for aircraft enthusiasts similar to this one
where he can ask questions about the value of what he has and how to
sell them?

Engineman

Wikipedia entries on ultralights like the J3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipp%27...rds_J-3_Kitten

have reference links to some useful info.

Also:

http://www.buyplanesforsale.com/airplanes/listings/

http://www.lightsportaircraft.ca/lsa...-j3kitten.html

http://www.kitplanes.com/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hipps-...26723210714094

And I think it is also classifiable as a light-sport-aircraft.

and of course ebay.

Dave

On 05/03/2011 01:06 PM, Rich Grise wrote:
[crossposted: rec.crafts.metalworking,sci.electronics.design; please
manage followups intelligently.]

Tim Wescott wrote:
[in response to Karl Townsend about "hobby" airplanes]
Don't be surprised if the value is way lower than you think it should
be. People from 'outside' an enthusiast group can get enthralled by the
prices for some pro-built super-zoot thing and think that it applies to
everything. It doesn't -- the value of a half-assembled kit is often
less than the value of a factory new kit; the value of an
owner-assembled 'knock-around' airplane is going to be much less than
the same thing that's built to win trophies at shows (assuming they have
such things).

Dunno if this has any applicability here, but one of my coworkers has a
souped-up Bucket T roadster that's been appraised at 35K, and my cousin
Owen in Lake Crystal, Minnesota still has Grampa's original equipment
Model A that you'd have to pay somebody to haul away, wood floorboards
and all.

The 'A' is probably worth something -- even one that grew up on salted
roads and had a tree fall on it is probably still worth a few hundred if
it's got most of the parts. But unless it's either rare or in
superlative condition it's probably somewhere in three digits territory.

--

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

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"Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" was written for you.
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On May 2, 11:32*pm, engineman wrote:
A friend has been appointed administrator of his late brother's
estate.
Among the items in the estate are 2 20' trailers with disassembled
airplanes in them.
One is some sort of Lycoming and the other holds a plane called a J3
Kitten.
Is there a newsgroup foraircraftenthusiasts similar to this one
where he can ask questions about the value of what he has and how to
sell them?

Engineman

If anyone wants to see the ads and pix, here they a

http://palmsprings.craigslist.org/tls/2351747427.html

http://palmsprings.craigslist.org/tls/2351706658.html