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09-27-2011, 02:15 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: San Angelo, Texas
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Why isn't your airplane painted?
Ref: RV-9A 949WG
I have my unpainted airplane listed for sale ($72,500). One of the most asked questions is " Why isn't your airplane painted?)
Answers:
1) I haven't decided on a paint scheme
2) Why paint it, I like the way it looks
3) When I sell, the buyer can pick their paint scheme
4) Who am I trying to make happy with the fancy paint job
5) Why add the weight and screw with the control surface balance
6) My airplane has great metal work ( I have been told) I don't feel the need
to hide it with putty & paint.
7) There are more answers, I just got tired of typing.
Last edited by bgaston : 09-27-2011 at 02:24 PM.
Reason: spelling
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09-27-2011, 02:22 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: New Brighton, Pa. 15066
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well said !  
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14 planes owned ,11 bought ,3 built .
RV-8 N808H ,Sold
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09-27-2011, 03:06 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Elkhart, Indiana
Posts: 1,186
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Because if you would at least paint a checkerboard on the tail, it would go faster!
I thought everybody knew that.
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Don McNamara
Peoria, AZ
Builder: RV-8 "Smokey"
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09-27-2011, 04:11 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Ramona, CA
Posts: 2,367
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aluminum is a color!
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09-27-2011, 05:01 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 1,516
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Color sells!
1: A nice paint job helps when selling your airplane.
2: Not all paint jobs cover poor workmanship.
3: Most buyers can't visualize a paint job and certainly don't want to have a
newly purchased airplane down for several month and an additional
6 to 10000 Dollars.
4: Just because you like the way it looks does not mean your
potential buyers like it. Most buyer will consider an unpainted airplane
an unfinished airplane, unless it is highly polished.
5: Weight of paint does not enter the mind of most non builder/buyers.
The above answers are just my opinion, but you asked for it.
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Ernst Freitag
RV-8 finished (sold)
RV-10 Flyer 600 plus hours
Running on E10 mogas
Don't believe everything you know. 
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09-27-2011, 05:11 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: San Angelo, Texas
Posts: 71
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Why isn't your airplane painted?
Thanks to all that read & replied
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09-27-2011, 05:31 PM
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Senior Curmudgeon
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dayton Airpark, NV A34
Posts: 15,408
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If I had enough money to paint it, I would have enough money to afford to keep it.
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Mike Starkey
VAF 909
Rv-10, N210LM.
Flying as of 12/4/2010
Phase 1 done, 2/4/2011
Sold after 240+ wonderful hours of flight.
"Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it."
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09-27-2011, 05:36 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: KSLC
Posts: 4,021
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Quote:
Originally Posted by N427EF
3: Most buyers can't visualize a paint job and certainly don't want to have a
newly purchased airplane down for several month and an additional
6 to 10000 Dollars.
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And thats.... just how it is!
I get a kick out of..........."ready for your own paint scheme". It really means, I never got around to spending all that money, or taking all that time & hard work.........that a paint job takes..
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09-27-2011, 06:47 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Texas, where else.
Posts: 450
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Airplane painters need to eat.
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RV-8A builder
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Aviation Plasticized Pigmented Polymer Application Engineer
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09-27-2011, 07:02 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 333
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Because I'm from Chino
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Hugh
Northern California
RV-7 Flying
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