How much does it cost to build a Dragonfly?
The answer depends on whether you build the aircraft using pre-fab components or strictly from buckets of epoxy, bolts of fiberglass cloth, and billets of foam. The Wicks 1997 catalog lists the total of all raw materials as $5,300. To that price, one would have to add the canopy ($370), cowling ($350), control system parts available only from Viking (about $300), an engine ($2,500 to $5,000 average, but can range to $12,000 or more), avionics, etc. If you go the pre-fab route, the Viking price list indicates you will spend about $7,500 on those parts that equate to about $1,600 of the raw materials from the Wicks list.
