OurPLANE’s Graham Casson, Greg Marlo and ûMark Hughes with Danbury fractional 182.

Buying any airplane—never mind a new airplane—is an exercise in fiscal insanity. For the average workaday schmuck, which most of us are, it’s like buying an extra house that you sleep in twice a month but that you can’t really rent because the insurance company won’t allow it.

Most of the time, there it sits, a ticking time bomb waiting to detonate and vaporize what’s left of your checking account. Some years it requires only modest funds to support, other years it consumes a good portion of the kids’ college fund contributions. …