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A Unicorn is even tougher to find than a Cream Puff.

Cream Puffs are around and as you found out, they sell fast (as do most good, above average planes these days).

A Unicorn is awfully close to a one off and impossible to find.......something like Uncle Eddies Woodstock.


Do you have a hangar?




Jim

Craig,

There's a nice 150F that just got posted on Facebook. Gave you an @mention so you can find it.

Thanks John! Giving it a shot, but I have a gut feeling a local might have beat me to it.

Yes, I wouldn’t keep a rough airplane outside in North Texas, much less a nice one.

Okay.....you passed the first test.


I know a guy who owns what is probably considered a Cream Puff Unicorn which is also probably classed as a show plane.

You can read a brief description in the summer newsletter that has a list of items like the autopilot and L3 Skywatch active traffic (TCAS) etc. & etc.


Would something like this meet your standards?




Jim

Wow!!!!! My budget was high, but doubt I could touch that one. Nicest 2 seat Cessna I've ever see hands down.

When Mark Baker (AOPA President) came to our Clinton Fly-In a few years ago and looked at Jim's plane, he pretty much said the same thing. All of his 3 planes are like that. When I travel with him, I park my plane far away from his

Could well be the nicest Cessna ever, Jim.

That’s not a Cream Puff......it’s the whole damn bakery!!!

Craig, I began looking about 3 years ago, and wasn't really "serous" and had actually stopped flying for about 8 years. So I was out of touch with value and the market. I actually passed on a 1975 Aerobat with about 2600TT and 400 SMOH and new paint. It was $40K and the seller ended up accepting $35K. At the time, I thought that was way too high. In retrospect, that was really a lost opportunity for me.
I had it stuck in my head, the "old prices".. I sold my '75 150M in 1998 for $13K. It later made it into AOPA magazine as a "featured plane". OMG what and why did it sell it?

So...lucky me, I found a 150K (1970) at my home airport. It had 4100TT and 600 SMOH... it had new prop, new tires, new battery, new Nav/Com...and the paint and window were in very good shape. NDH at all. I bought it "no haggling" on the spot for $18K.

It is not what I really though of... it has spring steel gear, the shorter tail fin, and the "moat" gas tanks. But it does have the landing light in the wing. So...the long story...I've added ADS-B and fixed window latches, carpet, panel trim..and I am going to install "correct" wheel pants I found to make it "original".

So, keep looking, and you may have to lower your expectations but certainly not your standards for a sound, airworthy airplane. The paint can always be upgraded, radios...and the engine can be O/H. But you cannot economically "fix" a corroded POS. Find a low as time you can.. even if it needs paint.

There is another 1969 on our ramp....4100 TT and 400 SMOH.. has the old green/orange HoJo paint. But it comes with extra patroller doors, a CHILD SEAT, and cabin cover..and it has wheel pants.