Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group LSA

RANS is making LSA's in the USA for $99k to $135k depending on model and options. www.rans.com

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "mikehuckle" <m230683@...> wrote:
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>
> "Rick" <lightflyer@> wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> >
> > Hehehe... saying you believe it doesn't make it so!
> > I believe they can't, or they would have done it.
> >
> > 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
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>

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