Your Personal Aircraft

[Charl]

So you find yourself in the lucky position that you have all the toys you'd ever want...except the aircraft of your dreams.
Taking your blank chequebook to the world of aviation, with as much time as you need, what ends up in your custom-built hanger?

[flynz]

2 Planes for me. For my little GA vfr putting round a Beechcraft Bonanza V35 I dont know what it is about it but that V tail is just so strange yet appealing to me. Then for getting me round would be my Cessna Citation X mainly due to the speed, unfortunately i'm not aware of any concordes on the market

Just my own fantasy. And what would you have Charl

EDIT: Also since money is no barrier a space shuttle or rocket or something would be nice to have

[creator2003]

s76 helicopter or even better a nice upto date 222bell with autopilot/ mini bar /etc.....

[Zöltuger]

Ok, so money no object-
1x Boeing 777 (for long haul)
1x BBJ 737 (for med haul and airports that the 777 can't get into)
1x smallish twin engine GA- like a Beech Baron 58 (I have no idea what's available)
and maybe a couple of warbirds, like a Corsair and a Spitfire
maybe even a helicopter to beat the innercity traffic. I like those really quiet ones. Or maybe I'd have an Iroquois, so that people would know that I was coming from 10 miles away.

[squirrel350]

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[AlisterC]

Hehe cool topic!
Oh the choices though!

I think I would have to have a choice of three.
Firstly I'd have a Cessna Citation X parked in a hanger up in Auckland. With it, the world opens up from there via Australia or Pacific Islands to pretty much anywhere in the world.

Given I don't live in Auckland, and the Citation can't land everywhere in New Zealand, I'd have a Beech Super King Air B200 for the commute to Auckland and to fly anywhere else in the country (like home to Nelson)

And for fun, I'd definately have a Hawker Sea Fury warbird. Power and beauty in one delightful package

[ZK-Brock]

This topic must've been made for me.

Personally I'd hire a team of engineers etc to build me a stretched 747-800 where I can do this:

Well in actual fact I'd prefer whale of a big jet (not an a380 though - bleh) than the Lear 60 or BD700. You could do so much more! Take off, switch on the AP, go bake some muffins in your huge kitchen, do a few laps of the pool, play FS, go to your own private buffet restaurant, jump on your bed, play on the playground, watch the Bill on your a billion inch flat panel TV, go on NZFF, go on msn and talk to James and Alex, sample carpet sample books, hop on IVAC or VRC and tell some idiots what to do, make humungus cake and lick the humungus bowl, spend a while at your own private disco, go to your private flying cinema, take a Tecnam around your own interior flying airfield, shoot some bad guys, burn stuff, watch high school musical, turn off the AP and land your aeroplane.

Adding to my fleet I'd have a C150, ZK-RJF, a straight-tailed Bonanza, an Air Tractor, a C206, a C185, a Fletcher FU-24, an Airtourer 100, a share in the NZFF Jetstream, a Nanchang CJ6, a Hawker Sea Fury and a volkswagon.

All kept in various hangars in Nelson, Wellington, Wigram, Glenorchy and Dairy Flats. Apart from the 748, that would be kept at AA where I'd employ Trolly and Towerguy to look after it turn the engines over every so often.

[flynz]

Oh and maybe the antonov AN-225 just to transport some of my stuff round and failing that a measly C17 globemaster

[Alex]

Thats an idea, a really modded AN-225 would be awesome.

Alex

[JonARNZ]

I'd go for one of the Dreamlifters, modded so I had a 4 story house, pool etc in the hold.

[Zöltuger]

Take off, switch on the AP, go bake some muffins in your huge kitchen, do a few laps of the pool, play FS

hmmm. to me, it seems redundant playing flight sim when you have access to your own fleet of aircraft

[ZK-Brock]

So?

[Zöltuger]

So you can do it for real, no need for simulation...
Mind you, if you had that much money, you'd have a computer so powerful that it would almost be real.

[brownbox]

1 737. Small enough to get to most popular airports... big enough to get from country to country

[bardos]

On the right place: big enough, fast enough....


Bardos.

[ashton]

my fleet

[Jimmy]

neat topic!

Well, you say we have all the moeny and all the time we need?

I would difenatly have a 767-300ER. And then something like a 733, they can land easily on grass strips..

I would also have something like the space shutle, seeing as I had all the time I needed I would wait untill I can have something in my personal hanger that is cabable of really long distantance space flight haha oh and one of those 74s to carry my space shuttle around on!

But of course I would need a little PA28 to pop in the cargo hold of my 76

James

[Nunner]

Beech V35 Bonanza for doing the shopping in.
Hawker Sea Fury for the shear hell of it (What a beast)
Spitty because they are what they are (quite like the mark 15 with the chopped wings)
Learjet 23 because I can.
Nunner
PS By the way Ashton I like your choice of the "Tomb"

[kiwiflyboy]

And then something like a 733, they can land easily on grass strips..

I dont think so..... Gas turbines dont take nicely to F.O.D, something that is plentifull on grass

[G-HEVN]

A D-Jet for posing
A Columbia 400 for commuting and/or shopping
A SuperCub for those long Summer evenings, and shortstripping.

And of course, a house next to the runway!