RCKen
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Yes, I know that lots of people saw the thread subject and thought that I would be announcing that the Ultra Sport 60 is coming back into production. Don't I wish that it was. Anyway, I have noticed that every time a thread starts up about the US 60 lots of people always chime in and say how much they loved that kit. And the US 60 always seems to get lots of answers to the question "What the best plane you've flown." And now US 60 kits are fetching $200+ on Ebay and here on the RCU marketplace. Keeping all of that in mind it seems that there is a big demand for the kit, or at least I would like to think there is.
Anyway, on to the subject of this thread. A few years ago I had a conversation with a VP from Great Planes and we talked about the US 60 kits. He said that they took it out of production because the sales had slumped on that kit. He also indicated to me that Great Planes might consider a limited "Nostalgia" release of the US 60 if they thought that there was enough demand for it, but he never told me just what that "demand" would be enough to consider. So I have sat here and waited. Well, in an unrelated conversation with a VP from Tower Hobbies 2 weeks ago the conversation shifted over to talking about the US 60 again. In my conversation with him he indicated that a production run (Bax, please correct me if my figure is not correct) would be about 300 kits. So there is it, the magic number that I needed to know.
Now here is what I am trying to do here. I want to see a limited run of the Ultra Sport 60 kit. My purpose with this thread is to see just how much real demand there is for this kit if it does come back in production. If we can get enough response I plan on showing this thread to the officials at Great Planes that there is enough demand for this kit to make a limited production run of this kit. If we can't generate enough demand then I'll know that Great Planes was correct when they told me there wasn't enough interest to keep the kit in production. I'm hoping the RCU community can come together and kit this kit back on the shelves, even if it is for a limited time!!
What I'm hoping for is for everybody to post here if they would purchase a US kit if it came back into production. Also, if you are anything like me you'll buy more than one kit so that you have one for later on down the road. So also let me know how many copies of the kit you would buy if it came back out. And lastly, how much money would be too much for you to say "forget it"?
Hopefully we can show Great Planes that there is enough interest for this kit and maybe we can get them to bring it back into production.
Thanks in advance for helping out.
Ken
< Message edited by RCKen -- 4/18/2007 12:41:26 PM >
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