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Vending machine for spare parts

German pilot’s shop Air Store has set up “a vending machine for spare parts” in Speyer airport":https://www.aerokurier.de/general-aviation/ersatzteil-automat-in-speyer/761144. From the picture it appears you can by engine oil, headsets, portable COM radios etc.

The manager of Air Store says: “The vending machine in Speyer is a first attempt by us of this completely new format. Even if it is commonplace in other markets, we are breaking completely new ground in the GA-market. Only by trying sometimes even partly crazy ideas, we can create new value for our customers of a kind that hasn’t been seen before.”

Last Edited by Airborne_Again at 07 Nov 13:27
ESKC (Uppsala/Sundbro), Sweden

Vending machines in general are a licence to print money if you could have enough of them. The trouble is you’d want contracts signed in all the places you have them, and a hungry audience for the product. I used to have 6 vending machines in a factory, you could make 150% return on investment annually for about 6 hours work a week. If you scaled it up it would have been a good job.

Not sure about the margins on an ICOM, headsets, oil etc. It would seem to be alot slimmer margin than buying a can of diet coke for 35 cents and selling it for a 1 euro. It is like having a person standing behind a counter 24/7 for no wages so it could make some money if there was enough eyeballs looking at the products.

Buying, Selling, Flying
EISG, Ireland

Does it stock KFC225 autopilot servos? You could do a roaring trade in those, at c. 3k a time…

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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

PPL books, headsets and tom cruise glasses in a typical US flying school

Paris/Essex, France/UK, United Kingdom
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