"Evan Carew" wrote:
Its even worth noting that should labor costs magically go
to zero, the cost of a commercially made aircraft would still
probably not go below 50K USD.

Airframe + avionics + engine + labor Insurance Profit
Overhead
kit basic 912 Magic
20000 + 4000 + 16000 + ( 0 * 45 ) +10000 + 10000 + 1000
= 61000


Woah there, overhead of mere $1,000/unit is not possible. At 100
units annually, pretty good if there's many competitors, that will
be only $100K. That's for manufacturing space and equipment,
warranty costs, legal, accounting, information tech, administrative
space, insurance other than product liability, taxes other than
income, phone, utilites, janitorial, etc., etc. And where's your
marketing costs? Advertising, promotional literature and videos,
and say $50K total cost for just one sales guy, who'll be one busy
beaver at 100 annual units. Figure $10K to go to AirVenture; wanna
go to all the others? And gotta demo plane?

Fred F.