Buyinga first airplane is every bit as much of a thrill for most people as buying a first car.Unfortunately, most first-time airplane buyers approach their purchase very much the sameway as they do when shopping for an automobile. Typically, they first decide how much theycan afford to spend on an airplane - it might be $20,000 or $200,000, depending on theirincome, obligations and priorities - and then they start scanning Trade-A-Planelooking to find how much airplane that much money will buy.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/ownership/choosing-what-kind-of-aircraft-to-buy