Bohdi

[Habu]

Question for you. What do you think a 67 O-2A with new VAR crankshafts and every AD, 5500 or so hours and mid time engines would be worth?

It is a well maintained aircraft but he pulled out the radios in the back (rack is still there) and it was ex CIA so things like the gunsight are gone as well.

Any word on those logs?

[Furball]

Originally posted by Habu
it was ex CIA

[megadud]

cool

[Habu]

Originally posted by Furball

Ex CIA just means after Vietnam it spent some time in Central America. That is probably a good thing as they would have wanted the planes that were in pretty good shape as opposed to the ones that had the crap beat out of them already.

They changed the number on the ID tag for the plane and that caused some trouble reimporting it as the number they had on the plane did not match any Cessna records. It had now been retagged with the original number.

But the CIA did not need the gunsite although the weapons pylons are still there.

[Debonair]

There is a '67 C-337 IFR & $30,000 & 3,000 hours less than the one your looking at.  I'm sure you saw it also, what makes the warbird so much better?

[Habu]

Do you have a link to that?

With 337's the three biggest things in determining their value is the engine time (each engine costs 30k or so to overhaul and if the engines are over 1500 hours that is a cost that is just around the corner), the props (McCauly does not support the original props and after 3 inspections they are junk. I think new series props are around 8k each) and the avionics. If you see words like Garmin 430 or STEC or JPI that is good. If you see original avionics that is bad.

If a 337 has been let go (not in annual) or has corrosion issues, or past damage then that too can affect the price quite a bit.

Mine comes with an ex 747 captain who is willing to invest some serious time getting my flying resume up to scratch.

[Debonair]

It was on http://controller.com .
Your plane is in there also, under piston military.
I'm not multi rated, so I don't have much valuable opinions to offer, but the built in training sounds valuable.
I came close to pulling the trigger on a similar deal a year ago (C-170 + all the tailwheel & instrument training you can fit into 10 days for $40k for sale by a CFII), before I had my IR & it was probably a mistake not to.  If you get your multi rating (although, if you are a Habu, you dont need one) on a centerline thrust plane, you're rating will be limited to centerline thrust.  
Not a big deal it you happen to own a centerline thrust twin.
A-26 for sale there also, no price listed, but I saw one a while ago, in annual for $80k (about the cost of a load of fuel for an A-26, probably).
If you're in AOPA, they have a free service for aircraft apraisals & a lot of good advice on their BBS.
Also a lot of bad advice from 150 hour know-it-alls.