{"id":10611,"date":"2026-01-03T16:25:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=10611"},"modified":"2026-01-03T16:25:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:25:02","slug":"new-airplane-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=10611","title":{"rendered":"New Airplane thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With Ro moving out soon, and our standard trip being 600NM nonstop to Colorado, I now no longer require four seats. So instead of operating the Bonanzas at around $240\/hr wet, I can now downsize to an experiemental 2-seat aircraft. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The short list of planes I&#8217;m looking at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Long EZ &#8211; most fuel efficient solution, issue: not much baggage &#8211; $45-60k <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lancair 360 &#8211; need long range header tank &#8211; issue: insurance &amp; accident rate &#8211; $120-150k<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vans RV-6 (38gal is too tight for nonstop) &#8211; well supported, easy to work on &#8211; $60-100k<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Ro moving out soon, and our standard trip being 600NM nonstop to Colorado, I now no longer require four seats. So instead of operating the Bonanzas at around $240\/hr wet, I can now downsize to an experiemental 2-seat aircraft. The short list of planes I&#8217;m looking at:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10612,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611\/revisions\/10612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}