re: The most airplane you can buy for $225,000

Like others have said, it depends on a lot. What are you wanting to do with it? How many people typically? How far? How often? What's your skill level as a pilot-private? Instrument? You say maintenance isn't important, but with a twin engine, those costs go up pretty dramatically.

But with no info, my vote would be for a low time Cirrus SR22 followed very closely by a Bonanza A36