ORIGINAL: YellowAircraft


I think it has more to do with what Boomerang 1 wrote. It's a marketing issue. Anyone who'd been around jets more than a few years knows that taking the prop off a given plane magically ups its value by double. Even a wood-kit jet is going to cost more than a prop-driven wood kit of the same or higher amount of stuff in the box.

It's similar to when you order a flower arrangement for an anniversary party at $12 per pot. That exact same arrangement in the exact same pot will cost $40 if you tell the florist that it's for a wedding. That florist knows that people will abide being 'bent over' when they're paying for wedding eccoutrements.