One of the smallest returns was the actual aluminium – apparently the whole lot can sometimes go for $3,000-4,000.
Slightly OT but the majority of a frame is alu…the rest is marketing and markup after the shock is taken out of the equation…lets face it a 2k frame will have a £300-400 shock?
So what you are suggesting is that because an airframe is only worth £4k as dirty scrap (its more than that though – the 737 sized fuselage I bought a couple of years ago was more like £8k, and that wasn’t complete) then that is all it costs to build an airframe?