famvburg wrote:
A friend of mine is thinking of buying a Broussard from France but he's curious as to the costs involved in shipping one over here to the USA. I told him I was sure some of y'all here would have an idea. So, any ideas? Thanks.
1- Hire a competent firm to disassemble and pack. It looks like a simple A/C to take apart and is reasonably light weight. Most damage on these things is from the packing end of things. The buyer might send someone to supervise of participate. That can also make reassembly easier. You might even need to have it flown to the UK or somewhere near a port to lower ground transport costs.
2- Floating across on the boat should be the lowest cost involved. It cost more to truck a set of P-51 wings coast to coast then it did for the transport costs to ship a P-51 from UK to Calif a couple years ago.
3- Try to get it to a port near a reassembly location to cut down on ground trucking costs.
4- Competent people to reassemble and register. Along with the assembly you have registration, FAA DAR to get an Airworthiness in the Experimental Exhibition category. There could also be importation paperwork and such as it was a military A/C. This is a process with the right people that could take a few days or it could take months.
It is an adventure but will take some time and some bucks.
Rich
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