10 Fastest Cheap Airplanes You Can Buy For Your Family

These are the fastest cheap airplanes you can buy right now! Wanna go 200 knots fast? okay, cheap is relative in airplanes, especially if you wan to be the fastest... You can buy a 200 knots cruiser for under $200k that will fit your family!

0:00 Why this list
1:21 #10 Cirrus SR22T
3:53 #9 Mooney M20M & M20K Rocket
6:31 #8 Beechcraft B60 Duke
9:18 #7 Piper Navajo
13:36 #6 Cessna 421b Golden Eagle
15:32 #5 Beechcraft Baron 58P
18:08 #4 Beechcraft King Air A/B90
20:44 #3 Cessna 340
23:49 Bonus! Lear 24
26:03 #2 Lancair IV-P
29:45 #1 Aerostar 601P

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[valuedhumanoid]

My neighbor services cellular towers across 6 states. He uses a Mooney as his "work truck". He's taken me up a half dozen times and it's exactly like you said. No luxury, no frills, just functionality and rugged durability. And fast. It reminded me of a WW2 fighter plane. His M20 has been modified for work so there no back seats normally. Just ferry tanks and his equipment. Many of the towers out in rural areas have a strip of grass/dirt or gravel runway so he can land right at the tower. It takes off like a rocket ship.

[EthioMod]

Can confirm, my mother-in-law is 400 lbs.

[GliderBane]

As a professional pilot with over 8000 hours in all kinds of planes I can tell you that piston twins are the most difficult and dangerous planes to fly. One should not think of flying one without serious aircraft specific training. A safety pilot with lots of experience in your high performance twin is also a must until you get a handle on the thing.

[ak]

My top pick as well. I remember when this thing was released. I was in love forever. There was one based in 2020 in Palmer, Alaska for awhile. I went by and checked it out every time it was out of the hanger.

[tombloom]

"You can't fly it for $200k, but you can own it". Great sentence!

[waynemacgregor]

My father owned an Aerostar in the 1970's when they were still being manufactured in Santa Maria California. His was actually used by the factory from time to time as a "demonstrator." Yes, it was really fast. And yes, it was pretty noisy despite being upgraded with additional sound "proofing." It was also noisy outside and he received a "violation" from Burbank on a departure. Of the dozens of airplanes he owned during his life, the Aerostar was his absolute favorite and he flew it up into his late 70's. Sadly, he's gone now, but every time I see one of the planes, I think about him.

[EverettTrujillo]

I love coming across cool videos with even cooler families I know. I am beginning my bucket list item of “one day becoming a pilot” Blessings to you all

[onehundredfire]

Nice Jimmy thank you for the tips, you are definitely one of the most incredible individual that explain everything in a fun and real way at the same time 🤠 ✈️ you are great.

[whiteorchid]

My husband and I had a turbocharged Piper Saratoga we flew for over 30 years that we called our flying station wagon. It comfortably seats six people, has a range of 1, 200 miles and cruises as fast as a twin on a single engine at 200+ knots and maintenance costs and fuel consumption were much less than a twin. So while other aircraft may have slightly better performance in one area or another none is more well rounded in terms of comfort, cabin size, weight capacity, range, speed and operating costs than a turbo charged Piper Saratoga with retractable gear.

[TheBillzilla]

I had the great pleasure of flying an Aerostar 601P for a short while. Just lovely to fly - as long as you had plenty of speed up. People asked me why it needed to go so fast to even turn, to which I replied, "it's got the same size wing as a Cessna 172, but thinner and carrying three times the weight". They got it!
I also had it up to 27, 000' once, it would have easily gone higher but there was an inlet manifold leak on the left engine so I couldn't get full climb power from it. Max speed I ever got was 234 kts.

[gfrerking]

My father-in-law flew an Aerostar back in the late 70's early 80's... I flew right seat a few times. One time we were fortunate enough to see an SR-71 climbing out of Beale as we were coming into the Sacramento area (headed to Nut Tree). Thanks for the memories!

[hookedonthebay]

Honestly you had me thinking about saving up for an airplane and flight school. You got me dude. Pulling on my heart strings.

[mikesrighthand]

The fact that the Navajo can handle a 5.5 psi pressure differential on the airframe makes me want it more, a lot of engineering and craftsmanship must have gone into the fuselage design.

[jag]

I own a 601-P. It is pretty much all you described except with one note, Aerostar Corp is still in business and they have pretty much engineered all those earlier bugs you mentioned out of the airplane. I can also beat the airlines to all my destinations at any point in the USA.

[swanauto]

I fly a 77 Aerostar 601p, the thing handles amazing. Very sensitive steering and both engines rotate to the left so you have to be careful taking off

[TerryLooft]

I have to agree with the Aerostar, I flew night freight in one for about 1000 hours. Of all the twins I flew this was at the top of cool factor. One twin you should have included is the Aero Commander, another airplane with loads of cool factor. But being of the very old school and money not a factor I would own a Beech 18! That was a fun airplane to fly and it had to be flown! But now in retirement I'm happy with my little Piper Twin Comanche.

[travelsouthafrica]

they giggled on the phone when you asked about the jet maintenance cost, because it's like the price on a top end Rolls Royce, "if you have to ask, you can't afford it "

[debbiemeyer]

I’ve flown in my dads friends Lancair 2 that he built and it was a blast! My dad had built a Glasair 2RG so they flew together a lot. The Lancair was squirrelly on landings though. The Glasair that Dad built after he built a Long-Eze and sold it, was smooth and fast too! It was a gorgeous plane. We had to sell it when Dad passed away 10 yrs ago and it was hard watching the new owner fly off.

[doziersimmons]

Love it. Thanks for including the 601P.

[troublelessone]

love these recommendations.. thank you for setting the bar higher than most with great information.