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Just found this, Provenance Fighter Sales sold their P-47 Thunderbolt.

Anyone got any ideas of who bought it? I wonder if it was Rod Lewis, he seems to have been on a shopping spree at Provenance lately.

http://provenancefightersales.com/republic_p47d.htm

Beautiful airplane, I'd hate to see that price-tag.

Trey

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I wonder if she IS currently ready to fly??? Or does she need some tweeking?

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Trae

What WAS the pricetag?

That didn't seem to take long. Wasn't it just a few weeks ago that we were discussing its listing on the Provenance site. ?? I seem to remember hearing that the B25 may also be heading for a new home as well.

And it seems the Spitfire is as well!

Cheers

Paul

Apparently she is...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/planephotoman/500310512


Fade to Black...

Necroposting ftw.

Why does Provenance seem to shove the prices up so high? Courtesy sold a Mustang at 1.4 mil and Provenance has got one at 2.2! The Beaufighter as a project was, what... 2.5? O_o;

That would be sweet. I was in San Antonio yesterday afternoon and saw his Bearcat land at KSAT....

Lynn

This is a for profit business with products that are in high demand. If nobody wants to pay those prices then the aircraft won't sell. But people are paying them and they are selling. So good for Provenance.

John

If you ask me I think someone could make some $ off that static P-51. Put a $million in it and make yourself a couple hundred off the flying aircraft.

People admonish WalMart for undercutting the competition. I guess you just can't win .

Just as companies that sell cheap or low end products count on selling many many items for as cheap as they can afford to usually for little profit, companies that sell very high end expensive items try and maximize the risk:reward ratio involved in spending hundreds of thousands, or millions of dollars on one item that may take months or a year to sell.

This company probably makes no more in a year what the average large sized car dealer is who is only making maybe a couple thousand dollars profit on each car.

Sounds like pump and dump to me. People with that kind of money didnt get where they are being careless with money.Why do you think the are millionaires?

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Don 't forget Provenance will pay for a restoration... Courtesy only resell existing aircraft 'as is'

The bottom line is that in the end you will get more flyers the Provenance way

Ah, a few more for Texas!

....and they operate on different business models entirely. Courtesy are a broker, so operate at no risk. Provenance purchase the aircraft themselves and, as Paul has pointed out, will often finance the restoration themselves, so taking on the associated risk (such as cost over-runs on the restoration, and then being unable to sell the aircraft on - look at how long they've been trying to offload the TF-51 and Beaufighter.)