Expo was like a candy store: He liked the PiperJet, was impressed with the Diamond D-Jet, but focused his dreams on the Cirrus Vision SF50. Prior to the 2008 Expo, this 800-hour pilot had made a deposit on an Emivest (Swearingen) SJ30, back when deposits were $25,000 instead of $100,000, but he had withdrawn it when the Emivest company hit financial problems. Cirrus and Piper salesmen he met there revived his interest in jet ownership. First, there was a flirtation with owning a jet-a second result of his visit to AOPA Expo that year. That planted an idea that would ultimately have him chrome-plating his gas caps and custom-painting his towbar, but it would be additional months before that journey would begin. I climbed in it, and sat in those seats, and I was like, ‘Wow, this is what it is supposed to be like,’” Lessnick said. Then he went to AOPA Expo a few years ago (before the event was renamed AOPA Aviation Summit) and sat in our sweepstakes Piper Archer with its shiny glass cockpit and luxurious interior. It was in perfect condition with a mid-time Lycoming O-540 engine. He paid $80,000 for the Comanche in 2005 and was quite happy with it. David Lessnick of Las Vegas was perfectly happy with his 1964 Piper Comanche 250-until he saw AOPA’s 2008 sweepstakes airplane.
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