Pilatus,
Perhaps you are right about keeping 240 until she falls apart but like an old banger the older she gets the more she costs. As for selling 240 have a look on the internet. Most SKA 200s have a max of 3-4000hrs and a corporate background. Would you buy an aircraft with about 15,000 hrs and a military maritime and training background? As for getting 100-200,000 for its sale they just wasted that on the repaint!
The fact is to replace a King Air used for twin engine training with anything bigger then a Piper Seneca would cost about ten times as much to purchase and 5 times as much to operate per hour. Consider also that with only one aircraft all training must be suspended during maintenance, why not have a fleet of high quality light twins for training?
I realise that the SKA 200 does do some VIP missions in Ireland but surely over the next year these will be done quicker and more effectively by the incoming heli fleet. Anything outside Ireland should be the remit of the learjet and GIV.
