Skymaster ownership costs: 2015 edition

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Originally Posted by Skymaster337B

If you need to make "payments" for the airplane then you can't afford it.

Isn't it quite normal to buy a plane through a loan, rather than outright--even if you do happen to have 90k lying around? I would think from a risk and cashflow perspective that 7% financing would often be the more savvy approach. But I digress; is it not quite common to buy through a loan rather than outright?