My home base has a pretty good condition 1960 C150 for sale.
4900 TT, 600 SMOH, KX-170B navcom, and a Narco AT-50A transponder.

I’m thinking the airplane is worth about $15,000. Thoughts?
Least expensive way to get it ADS-B out equipped? Still will set me back $3000 I’d assume?

Trade-A-Plane will give you an idea of current prices.

Stories have been told, right here on BT, of airworthy, decent C150s that sold in the low to high teens ... I dearly love mine, but it is WORTH only maybe 12K, despite the Certified GPS and full IFR capability. It even looks pretty good but I'm waaay over TBO

A factory new O-200A can be bought retail for 23K .... prorate that on these two candidates and see where that prices the airframes

Current ASKING prices, yes. SELLING prices, no.

$13,999.99. not a penny more

What makes you say that?

Nice C-150 at our airport recently sold. It was nothing fancy, no WASS GPS, no ADSB... etc. Just a solid plane, decent paint, interior was average etc. They started at 25k 2 years ago. Most recently they were asking 16k. They had an offer for 15k about 6 months after they first listed it. They sold it last month for 12k.

I briefly owned a '59 C150 while ATP time building. Bought it as a semi-basket case (out of annual 10 years) for $5500. $2k later I was flying. Resold it for $8500 after about 6months.

Was 2200 SMOH c.1965, awful paint, VFR radios.

Based on 600 SMOH, it might push $15K. How long ago? was it 1981?

the GDL82 at $1800 plus minimal install is the current ADSB price leader.

What makes you say that?

I could have had this one for 10K, one of the cleanest I've seen, around 4000 hours, two owners It had 2200 on it's engine, but said to have good compressions, and airworthy current

Not to rip on you too much, but... duh. I’m thinking pretty much every pilot already knows to look at either T-A-P or Controller to check prices. Plus, the two examples you posted are ludicrously overpriced... so, not much help there.

After a quick peruse of TAP, it would appear a number of folks are being a little overly optimistic on the effect of basic med on the value of Cessna 150's. While I expect to see a firming up of prices, a doubling is a bit on the ridiculous side, especially for 150's. After all, we are talking about a 100hp 1-1/2 place airplane!

The biggest pricing change I expect to see in the coming years is a drop in prices in light-sport aircraft; both newer models manufactured specifically as such, and older ones that meet the criteria such as a Champ or a J-3. Why would you pay stupid money for a LS eligible 100hp cub, with a 450lb (or less) useful load when you can buy a Super Cub for about the same money??

I did the pre-buy and some instruction for a friend on a mid-70's C150 with a basic IFR panel, average interior, a fresh engine and crap paint. As I recall he paid something around 14K. With nice older 172's selling in the mid 20's, I expect a lot of these planes listed on TAP to be on the market for a while.

Jeff

I bought a 1967 Cessna 150 3 years ago. 5000 TTAF, 150 SMOH. no corrosion but original (bad) paint. I paid 12k for it. Spent 5k on decent paint job, flew it two years and sold for 17k. So basically broke even and got some use out of it. It looked great when I sold it and nothing ever broke on it.

Lynne, no one has yet commented on your question about ADSB.
I'd start reading this web site. It may work well for you.
https://www.uavionix.com/news/uavionix- ... -solution/

Thank you. That looks great .. but lets see what they charge for the certified version, once it's available.