I think I would be combing the internet for KR sale prices, things like Ross's plane which he tried to sell on ebay and couldn't even get $3200 for, even though it was "almost ready to fly". Not prices that people WANT for them, but prices people GET for them. Ebay is a good place for those. For example, print out the one at http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=2485294622&category=63679&sspagename=WDVW whee the guy is asking $7000 "buy it now", and only has $4500 offered so far. My perception of an average ASKING price for a KR2 is about $6000-$8000. The really nice ones that show up at the Gathering (like Don Betchan's) might go for $12-14k. I saw one guy try to sell his for $24,000 for about three years, and I'm pretty sure he NEVER got anywhere near that for it. It must have been a nice one, and it only had a few hours on it, and I'm sure he had even more money IN it, but that's the reality of the KR selling world. I'd tell them to PROVE it to me that KRs are selling for the kinds of prices they're saying it's worth. I'd remind them too that if you have to sell it to somebody, they'll never get another DIME of tax revenue out of it, because it will almost certainly leave the county.
Speaking of Don Betchan's plane N250KB that crashed a few weeks ago, Troy told me that Mike Kellum from Lewisburg Tennessee had just bought it from the guy in North Dakota (I think that's right) and was taking off headed home. Some kind of engine power problem brought him down right off the end of the runway, where the plane was totalled, but Mike only got cuts and bruises. He's owned several KRs and knows how to fly them, it was just an engine problem. Troy said when it was all over he was basically sitting in the field with the plane in little pieces all around him... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL N56ML at hiwaay.net see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
