"dave" davesjunkmail@comcast wrote in message
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Wendy,
I bought a 1968 ECA about two months ago. The insurance is about
$1000/year
with AIG. I previously had about twenty hours in tail draggers and an
instrument rating. I don't know about the price on the plane you
mentioned
but it does seem high. Then again, it looks like new.
Check out yahoo groups for citabriapilots. They really helped me when I
bought mine.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CitabriaPilots/

Dave

I can live with $1000/yr, but if it is outrageously high I'd forgo hull
insurance until I had more time in the plane (anything I buy will be a cash
deal involving no financing, but I know I'd be insane to not carry
liability). I am not instrument rated, although I am slowly working on it
in a 172. I'll have maybe 20 hrs TW when I buy, and somewhere in the
neighborhood of 150 hrs total. Insurance peoples might gag at that The
airplanes are just loads of fun to fly (as you know!); the feeling of flight
is very immediate in a Citabria and I find that quite attractive. Not to
mention they make you pay attention on the ground... I really don't know
when I'll buy- maybe in the fall of next year, which gives me a lot of time
to research the aircraft, the process, and my own myriad compulsions
Thanks for the link to the group- I'll jump in there straightaway.

Wendy