----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- Greetings everyone. It has been some time since you have all heard from me in any postings. It is time that I make notice of a recent incident involving Ercoupe N87284 S/N 457. If anyone recalls I had been searching for parts to continue it restoration. The aircraft has been in storage for some time now. I recently recovered the aircraft so I could begin it's restoration. Upon arriving at the airport where it was stored, I climbed aboard to asses its condition. I immediatly notice the control yokes had been removed. Although not visiable to me at that time, I assumed they had been stolen. I did locate them later in the tail of the airplane! I then noticed the fuel cap and float missing from the Header tank. A piece of leather was in it's place covering the hole that should have been occupied by the filler neck of the header tank. Thinking the tank was installed I removed the leather piece to look into the tank, only to find that I was looking at the belly skin of the plane! The header tank had been stolen!!! Noticing also that the cowling was very loose, I looked into the engine compartment. Low and behold the nose gear and engine mount had been removed and replaced with an unusable nose gear and a bent and twisted engine mount!!!. The engine had been removed prior to my purchasing the aircraft, So I was not expecting to find an engine under the cowl. By this time I was very angry. I am sure that anyone that has had that happen to them would be angry as well. Well I guess at this point the aircraft is going back into storage untill I can put together enough money to repurchase the new parts. And as most of you know the header tank, float gauge and cap are no longer in production for that early of an Ercoupe. I wish you all Happy Landings.
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