Careful. Buying a used plane can be a money pit. How much do used 150s go for nowadays? $20K? You could easily sink that much into a used plane just bringing it up to safe airworthiness.
Ya, you could just buy a new plane instead of a used one.
a new 172 is only somewhere around $274,900.
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