Airplane ownership is exceedingly expensive, with costs escalating dramatically with aircraft complexity, from basic singles to pressurized twins.
Significant expenses arise from rigorous maintenance requirements that don't relax with age, unexpected major repairs, and continuous, "breathtakingly expensive" avionics upgrades.
Owners must be prepared for continuous high financial outlays, often requiring resources comparable to multiple homes or "gold cards with no limit" to cover maintenance and modernization.
That title shouldn’t surprise anyone, but in the last two years I’ve been painfully reminded of the depth and truth of that.
My first airplane was one-third of a Cessna 150. We weren’t smart enough then to know the extent of maintenance requirements, so we simply did most of it ourselves … without oversight and without much documentation. We were blissfully ignorant.
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