Partnership on a helicopter purchase?
 

Anyone in FL want to go 50/50 on a helicopter? Figure $150k or so per person on a decent used one ($300-$350k range), and $35-50k/year maintenance. Looking at something like this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BELL-222A-HE...-/131045115647

Skype me.

in gta v are helicopters for free

Always wanted to learn to fly choppers since a kid. Have you flew one before or looking to start?

Ebay probably not the best place to buy a helicopter. If you know Rex at VG he would be a good person to talk to about such a purchase.

you going to help rescue people in the phillipenes?

Well, the eBay link is just an example of what I'm looking at ... haha.

I don't want to fly it; I want to be flown. I'm just looking to share the ownership with someone local. I don't need it often, maybe about 1/4 to 1/2 the time.

My secret plan: revealed! Shit, man. :thumbsup

When I worked at Nashua Corp. a few of the guys got together to buy a plane.

The disputes about time (everyone seemed to want it the same days) led to a second aircraft purchase.

Big pain in the balls. Good Luck!

Wouldnt it be cheaper and better for taxes to charter when you need it? Not that I know anything about this but I heard buying the Private Jet Card Memberships the way to go to fly private. Unless of course you're initials are RC.

A friend of mine sold hers (don't know the model), the maintenance was too high. Said she would never own another. One year she spent well over 100k on it. :Oh crap

hahahaha

You are attracted to danger edgeprod :winkwink:

Hey Dom, just admit it.. you want to be Jan Michael Vincent, and you're looking for an Ernest Borgnine.

if it flies, floats or fucks it's cheaper to rent...

Ha! I'm attracted to lots of odd things. :thumbsup


I never denied this! :1orglaugh


You might have a decent point there.

Grandpa always said some people have more money than sense.

:1orglaugh
or start a detective agency.

You would get more success if you offered business opportunity, for instance to rent it or do "taxi service" whenever you do not use it yourself.

I'm not personally interested in renting out my helicopter. Yuck. I didn't even rent my limo, nevermind something that flies.

You can look at it from different perspective: You invest into helicopter rent business and on top of that you get to use it for yourself as well :winkwink:

After all when there are 2 of you (owners) you sort of let it use to someone else anyway (just 1 person instead of more when renting).

Not suggesting, just saying that it may be more difficult to find someone who thinks its viable to buy helicopter and not get any ROI out of it while it sits there.

I didn't misunderstand you, it's just .. yuck. Always had people trying to convince me to rent out the lake house, or the boat, or the jet skis, or whatever .. it's just that people are usually gross, and don't take care of shit.

LOL anyone want to split a G4

Not as much use for a plane as a helicopter, sorry. A bit out of my price-range, too.

lol you must really have low self esteem issues Dom :2 cents::2 cents::2 cents:


You always flock here about your Viper and now a Heli? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Come on man you are not a player at all , the real players do not come here talkin about a Viper or "Toys" lololol

Best advice for you is to see a therapist :2 cents::2 cents:

And no I am far from a player but my modest toys and modest belongings do not need to be posted here to help me be happy with myself

seek some help that some free advice ....

btw you are at best a "ok" programmer nothing more ....


or is the Autopligg/Chio partner money paying for the Heli/Viper/Cristal/ and mad bitches?


Seek help and tell Chio we miss him :2 cents::2 cents:

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

If you think having a Viper or a helicopter make you a "player" you need to reexamine what makes you happy. Most of my cars are modest, but my code is not -- I'm an excellent coder for those who aren't too broke to pay for those services. How's business lately?

Where did you get $35K-$50/year for maintenance? I use to work on Sikorsky's and can tell you that number is way off. Lots of moving parts to break. They are fun to fly but very expensive to operate and maintain.

I figured 70k-100k (35k-50k per person) was fair for maintaining them. If that's not the case, then it's more expensive that I want to deal with, when you factor in fuel. I'd like to get the details and see. But first, I don't want to go it alone, so I'm seeking someone in the area who wants to share.

I've wrecked every type of machine I've ever owned. I would recommend not responding if I contact you.

Just did the "buy it now" for this one. Wish me luck, I'm going to be flying it to Internext:

http://i.imgur.com/zN6SKz5.jpg

If anyone wants a ride, let me know! :1orglaugh

C'mon, man, we'd make great partners! :thumbsup You should come up to my neck of the woods and check out some of the houses here. Great opportunity to buy properties and run them as rentals. It's a weird real estate confluence of high rental prices and low purchase prices. When the purchase prices go up, the rents will swell with them, making it ideal right now.

i wouldnt buy used thing which has moving parts in it.

wait for some time, get like minded people and get a new one.

+1 :thumbsup

I have some killer domains if anyone was actually serious about starting a helicopter charter business :2 cents:

brassdonkey will miss his sistah:1orglaugh

The full version is more of a rhyme:

"If it fucks, floats or flies...it's cheaper to rent than buy."

Why not break up the purchase into many small pieces? Sell it as a time share / investment, make the 'copter available for rental, lease, tours, tv news, police, search & rescue, etc? Or I don't know if this is possible, but lease the copter instead and time-share the cost of that out. Take on the lease amount of risk as possible.

I'm going to break it into even more pieces: first, I'll buy the doors, then the seats, then the rotor blades.

after getting my fixed wing ticket (like 25 years ago) I took 10 hours lessons in an R22 - the most fun and challenging machine I have ever operated - freaky as fuck in the beginning when you are used to flying planes - but what a blast.

What are you going to do when your partner calls and says the helicopter broke down and your half is $10,000.

Speak in a Spanish accent and claim to have no knowledge of someone named "edgeprod".

From my experience, sharing stuff like that with friends is bad news. You might want to look into quarter share or fractional to start out and see how that goes. I worked on aircraft for 22 years and one thing I can tell you is how much the accounting departments bitched at the owners about how much money they cost to operate/maintain.

My advice would be to really take your time looking into the actual operating costs. You could lose your ass really quick on equipment like that.