Sorry for my absence here!
My priorities in life have changed, which drove me away from flightsim-business to other things.
Like flying rc-helicopters, preferrably turbine-driven ones...

As my friends priorities have changed even more - moving his home further away from airport, planning to buy his own house, wife'n'kids'n'stuff - I am forced to make some adjustments too, whether I like it or not. I tried to find other pilots, but it's mostly as always: "Sell the airplane? But you can't, it would be very sad, such a beautiful airplane, it made history, one could, should, have to..." - "OK, why don't you buy a part of it or lend me some money to keep it flying?" - "Huh?"
Our beautiful Saab Safir is for sale.
Thanks to its previous use, it's airframe (s/n439) hours are quite low somewhere around 4800hrs. Engine (Lyc IO-360-C1C) has had a big repair-job from corrosion (close to overhaul) from the time when it was grounded and is good to run now for all the remaining 1500hrs. Prop (Hoffmann V123K) needs to go into overhaul nest year, which will be around 3000€ (last time we checked).
The plane has been hangared from the time we started restauration, and the recreation in the sim - though very nice indeed - does not do justice when it comes to the looks. The only two pilots took great pride in flying her and thus also took great care of her. Been waxed five years ago and never since - but still sparkles like new... All the leather has been remade...
We would love to see this plane in good and caring hands!
We are looking for around 80'000€ (due low airframe-hours and recent restauration), but since we're not that proficient on Safir-pricing, we are open for discussion on that topic - as long as it stays reasonable. We're not looking to make money (restauration-works alone cost us 75'000€ without labour (!) and the engine-repair not included...) but we'd be happy to get most back of what we've putten into.
For those seriously interested, may I kindly ask you to contact me either via PM over this forum or email dnovet [ad] gmx.net?
I'll gladly share more information and precise figures!
Thank you very much for your attention!
Sincerely from sunny but frosty switzerland,
Daniel