Jerry Napoliano wrote:
There's an avionics shop nearby and I've seen
Garmin 430's for $3750 there, which didn't seem like a bank-breaker
for a panel mounted GPS/COM upgrade. Installation, I understand, is
not included... what that would cost has yet to be determined.
Anyone?

You don't say you're looking for IFR certification, so that reduces your
installation cost. $8-10K is not unusual, I think, for a certified 430. IFR
certification lets you do approaches. In the enroute environment, there's not
benefit to the IFR cert.

Dave