Let’s be honest, an awful lot of you aren’t going to care about this, but for those few of you who will care, this is the best news ever: We have a left-and-right pair of Piper PA30 Twin Comanche wings.
They’re fairly clean — details on the website.
Very new and just in the door is this ’08 completion Glastar (Experimental certification). On its nose is a Lycoming Experimental-spec IO 390 engine, 210 horse power rating with GAMI.
The aircraft is (was) on Montana amphib floats, one of which is especially damaged, one is intact.
Log books here, flown regularly prior to the incident.
The bad news is the plane was in the water, although we’ve drained the crankcase and sprayed Jet A in the engine to preserve the steel.
Call us with what you’re looking for, the entire project being available.
(Excuse the pictures, but “Just in” means “Didn’t have time to lay everything out for pictures.” We’ll get some better pics up later.)
That Mooney we just flew in has a no prop-strike engine on it (as discussed in the previous post).
The mags were just overhauled, and the oil cooler was replaced recently as well.
Lycoming 180 horse O-360 A1D, field overhaul in ’97, 361 hours ago. Call.
Here’s a (QuickTime) vid of the engine being run (we’ll get some pictures up, but lets not kid ourselves, it looks like an O-360 in a Mooney).
We flew this one in — and will be talking about it for the next little bit.
Nice old(er) airplane in annual now. It has a repair history on the wing spar as such where it won’t pass further annuals, but has a lot of good parts, including a O-360 180-horse with a constant speed prop (details to follow in subsequent posts).
Good flight controls, good King nav/com, just lots of good things to talk about here. Call with your needs as it’ll be a little bit before we get it sorted out in the hangar.
Vans RV- builders: Your homebuilt project would really like this engine, just sayin’.
We have a pretty large selection (also referenced in the “Little black gauges” post made recently). It’s tough to list all the airplanes these are used for, since they’re so popular, but just search for what you need, or start with this link.
We never have these for long, and here’s a chance to prove us right: ACK E-01 ELT, out of an older Bonanza, includes tray.
It worked when we tried it.
We have a customer. This customer owns a single-engine Cessna and it wasn’t getting flown very often, for whatever reason. The aircraft was hangar-kept and very clean, it just wasn’t getting flown much.
Life circumstances changed and it was time to start getting it in the air more, but first, it was past due its annual airworthiness inspection. No problem, just run the airplane by the shop and have them do an annual and then ….
Problems, big problems (as the pictures show). Mice had gotten into the aircraft’s aluminum wings and nested. While that was bad enough (nesting material was made from insulation taken from various parts of the airplane) the body waste from the mice did some real damage.
See the pics? There’s more than just waste there. You can see in the one where a rib was literally eaten apart, just rotten, from the rodent’s waste.
And we’re still drilling it down, still discovering the range of the damage. Some of the damage might be repairable by cleaning and treating the metal, but some will need parts replacement.
So yeah, regular inspections or fly your airplane if at all possible, or you wind up with time-consuming repairs like we’re seeing here.
Overview of the center wing area. Lots to be cleaned and/or replaced in just this area, and we still have more wing to go, and another just like it nearby.
In the upper left is where aluminum used to be.
This is a portion of the wing bay, with the lower skin removed. You can see the waste still in there. This and like this is what’s caused so much damage to the wing (note also the bits of insulation used for nesting material by the vermin).
You know what we get calls for all the time?
You know what we rarely have because they get sold not long after we put them online?
172 armrests
You know what we just got in?
Four 172 armrests. ”Four” as in “we even more rarely have a complete set of these bad boys,” and yet, here they are.
Oh no, thank you.
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