Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site terak.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!noao!terak!doug From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: Homebuilts Message-ID: <823@terak.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 13:59:10 EST Article-I.D.: terak.823 Posted: Fri Oct 25 13:59:10 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 22:39:18 EST References: <3024@mhuxd.UUCP> <1172@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <3097@hplabsb.UUCP> <689@alberta.UUCP> <807@terak.UUCP> <3118@hplabsb.UUCP> Organization: Calcomp Display Products Division, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Lines: 22 > You missed the point. Even the today's new spam-can 2-place plane with no > room for luggage nor avionics is beyond the financial means of "the common > man". Not true. Well, if there were any left it wouldn't be true. But when the sales dried up they all went away. A stripped 152 was really quite inexpensive; but essentially 100% of U.S. sales had the "152-II" dress-up and avionics option. I'm trying to remember if there are any 2-place GA planes in production in the U.S. I don't think so. T-Craft closed up earlier this year. Varga closed up last year. The Skipper and Tomahawk went away a couple of years ago, and Cessna has shut down the 152 production line. The Super Cub and the old Bellanca tail-dragger lines are trying to be revived, but I don't think they've succeeded yet. Maybe the Arctic Tern is still going, I don't know. Wait -- I forgot about aerobatic biplanes. The Pitts S-2 must still be in production. The Great Lakes has popped in and out of production regularly, but I think it's currently "in". -- Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {calcom1,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug