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$449K will get you the single Swift-Fury and the rights to make more.
The Fury ought to be the stuff of tragedy. It was conceived when there were a lot of guys who learned to fly in the `40s were retiring. A high-performance single that handled like a baby fighter would have been ideal.
But the 1980s was a lousy time to sell new airplanes. And now, the generation of pilots who began training in Cubs and Champs and who dreamed of flying Mustangs are dying off. The retiring Boomers trained in Cessna 150s; those who wanted to fly tailwheel airplanes had to make an effort to do that.
I'm guessing that the market for Swifts is probably softer than it was ten or twenty years ago. $249K for a one-off is probably waay too much. And another $200K for the rights to build an airplane that people have been trying to bring to production for thirty years? I wouldn't pay ten bucks for that.
The Fury ought to be the stuff of tragedy. It was conceived when there were a lot of guys who learned to fly in the `40s were retiring. A high-performance single that handled like a baby fighter would have been ideal.
But the 1980s was a lousy time to sell new airplanes. And now, the generation of pilots who began training in Cubs and Champs and who dreamed of flying Mustangs are dying off. The retiring Boomers trained in Cessna 150s; those who wanted to fly tailwheel airplanes had to make an effort to do that.
I'm guessing that the market for Swifts is probably softer than it was ten or twenty years ago. $249K for a one-off is probably waay too much. And another $200K for the rights to build an airplane that people have been trying to bring to production for thirty years? I wouldn't pay ten bucks for that.
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