This plane?

[LoLPilot]

if the owner is on here I don’t mean to offend! I just wondered what the deal is with this airplane. It’s been for sale for a while for what seems like a reasonable price and it’s beautiful. Looks like a lot of fun and I’m just not sure why it has t moved? I’m not terribly familiar with skybolts or Continental engines (Lycomings have powered everything I’ve flown except for the 182 I did my high performance in).


https://www.controller.com/listings/aircraft/for-sale/23140581/1998-steen-skybolt

 

[kyleb]

if the owner is on here I don’t mean to offend! I just wondered what the deal is with this airplane. It’s been for sale for a while for what seems like a reasonable price and it’s beautiful. Looks like a lot of fun and I’m just not sure why it has t moved? I’m not terribly familiar with skybolts or Continental engines (Lycomings have powered everything I’ve flown except for the 182 I did my high performance in).


https://www.controller.com/listings/aircraft/for-sale/23140581/1998-steen-skybolt

Honestly, I think you're looking at a boutique airplane. There may not be a thing wrong with it, but the list of potential buyers is fairly small.

 

[mondtster]

Honestly, I think you're looking at a boutique airplane. There may not be a thing wrong with it, but the list of potential buyers is fairly small.

That, and this time of year isn’t the best time to try and sell an open cockpit airplane.

 

[DaleB]

Yeah, there's a reason I don't have my motorcycle posted for sale right now.

 

[Grum.Man]

As others have said not many people have or want to drop 30k on an airplane that had such a narrow mission focus. The people that are in the market are probably a bit turned off by the 470 engine. Not exactly a powerhouse for its weight.

 

[LoLPilot]

As others have said not many people have or want to drop 30k on an airplane that had such a narrow mission focus. The people that are in the market are probably a bit turned off by the 470 engine. Not exactly a powerhouse for its weight.

Someone enlighten me a bit about Skybolts? I thought they were a decent jack-of-all-trades sport plane? They aren’t great at stuff like xc but I always thought you could cruise them in addition to flipping them upside down.

 

[Grum.Man]

Someone enlighten me a bit about Skybolts? I thought they were a decent jack-of-all-trades sport plane? They aren’t great at stuff like xc but I always thought you could cruise them in addition to flipping them upside down.

Compared to other biplanes yes, they are pretty good cross country cruisers. Compared to a Cherokee they still suck. They are tight, loud, touchy, burn a lot of gas for the speed, has small tanks, this one is open cockpit which can get tiring, limited instrumentation due to panel size, and limited baggage capacity. Compared to a pitts it has tons of room, is stable, has decent size tanks, good speed, a baggage compartment, good visibility, slow landing speed.

 

[LoLPilot]

Compared to other biplanes yes, they are pretty good cross country cruisers. Compared to a Cherokee they still suck. They are tight, loud, touchy, burn a lot of gas for the speed, has small tanks, this one is open cockpit which can get tiring, limited instrumentation due to panel size, and limited baggage capacity. Compared to a pitts it has tons of room, is stable, has decent size tanks, good speed, a baggage compartment, good visibility, slow landing speed.

Sort of a “depends on what you’re comparing it to” then.

Someone really needs to make a kit clone of the Super D...

 

[Dana]

Compared to other biplanes yes, they are pretty good cross country cruisers. Compared to a Cherokee they still suck. They are tight, loud, touchy, burn a lot of gas for the speed, has small tanks, this one is open cockpit which can get tiring, limited instrumentation due to panel size, and limited baggage capacity. Compared to a pitts it has tons of room, is stable, has decent size tanks, good speed, a baggage compartment, good visibility, slow landing speed.

It's all in what you want. From my perspective, I could say of a Cherokee: "Compared to a Skybolt they still suck. They are claustrophobic, sluggish handling, have poor climb performance, lots of distracting instruments, require an A&P for maintenance and TSO'd parts, and look just like every other low wing Piper on the field."

 

[GRG55]

It's all in what you want. From my perspective, I could say of a Cherokee: "Compared to a Skybolt they still suck. They are claustrophobic, sluggish handling, have poor climb performance, lots of distracting instruments, require an A&P for maintenance and TSO'd parts, and look just like every other low wing Piper on the field."

Worst of all, when someone runs a Cherokee out of fuel and lands it in a field the local papers claim it's a Cessna.