Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group LSA

Final price tag isn't in yet, but the SeaRey will be built in Florida
and the factory is aiming for the ballpark of $125K, and that's for an
amphib! I think the labor cost directly relate to how plane is
constructed. We're building a SeaRey right now in the hangar and are
amazed at how quickly it is going together. There's no welding and very
title riveting. It pretty much bolts together saving a lot of time
which would equate to money on a factory built plane.

Helen

On 12/21/2010 4:22 PM, mikehuckle wrote:
> "Rick"<lightflyer@...> wrote:
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>>> Personally, I think it's a great pity that Cessna is not
>>> providing an "All American" LSA.
>>> (and I believe at the price they asking, they could have)
>>> Cheers,
>>> Mike
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>> Hehehe... saying you believe it doesn't make it so!
>> I believe they can't, or they would have done it.
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>> I would estimate that there is probably more than 1000 hours of labor per airplane. That includes the fabricater, assemblers, riggers, avionics techs, machinists, painters, cafeteria workers, and janitors. I'm sure I missed a few ;)
>> I think you posted a message the other day saying that Cessna saved $71,000 per aircraft by building offshore. That number sounds realistic.
>> Cessna pays their union workers around $25 an hour in wages, that would translate into $100 an hour when you add up the overhead (wages, retirement, health insurance, supervision, parking lot repaveing, training, loss from theft, etc...)
>> A LOT more goes into the production cost than just the $25 an hour the assemblers make. When I was building airplanes as a memeber of the same union (IAMAW) the company paid me ~$30/hr and charged the customer ~$150/hr for my services.
>> Rick
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> Thanks for setting me straight.
> I imagined it would be possible to make LSAs in USA,
> selling them at 120k, and making 10k to 20k profit.
> If we can't do that, we'll need to be grateful
> to the Chinese Folk for helping us out.
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> Mike
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