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I made a call the LFP crew does lease out the jet for private use.

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most rich people who claim to have their own jets are usually sharing them with other people, like a time share. Makes sense, split the cost with 3 or 4 other rich people at a quarter of the cost you'd have if you had one all to yourself.

partnerships are pretty common on all genaral aviation airplanes, not just jets. Most people would be surprised to find out how much it costs to maintain a small plane, even one like ours.
a couple of weeks ago our plane had the oil changed and the plugs re-gapped and cleaned. cost was just over 500$ just for that. the oil gets changed every 50 hours of flying.

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Your numbers are kinda off.
You can buy a Gulfstream for about 20 million and the fuel burn is more along the lines of 300 gallons an hour

you can also buy a gulfstream for 48 million.
But as I said, depending on type and equipment and year.

you can buy an older citation for 2 million, but then there is a 10 million upgrade you can do on it which replaces the engines and some other stuff. fuel usage on these jets are in PPH and not GPH.

You know, there is some owner maintenace that you can do yourself, such as oil changes. Not sure if you can legaly clean and regap the plugs, but I know you can do the oil changes, I used to change mine mysef.

Aviation oil is expensive enough, not paying an aircraft mechanic's time to do a simple oil change.

why would you spend 48 million on a gulfstream? You can buy a 767 for that.

And yes I know how fuel burn is calculated, and the pounds per hour work out to 300 gallons.

i dont own one, but i borrow one every time i fly :)

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true, one of the most expensive aviation oils (aeroshell 15/50 semi-synthetic) is only about 4.50/qrt, most single engine planes take 6-10 quarts.

and most guys i know clean their own plugs every 50 hrs or so.

aircraft ownership does not need to be overly expensive.

learn to fly and buy a plane. they're good investments.