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Ummmmmmmmm.................You forgot 60 years worth of settled dirt.
Larry
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Greg,
Here are the details:
Forward C. G.
Actual Weight Empty 802
Pilot 170
Fuselage Tank 30
Wing Tank -- R. 54
Wing Tank -- L 54
Oil 8
Passengers ---
Baggage ---
Total 1118
The empty weight include 753 aircraft, 17 starter, 11 generator, 26
battery, 3.2 navigation lights,
2.6 sunshade, and .3 for Ammeter. I didn't check their math.
Unless fuel is more than 6 pounds a gallon 54/6 is nine.
Richard
N99904
At 01:09 PM 3/8/2005 -0500, Greg Bullough wrote:
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>At 12:56 PM 3/8/2005, Richard Wilkens wrote:
>>Andrew,
>>
>>What is the serial number of the Coupe? It would help in answering your
>>question. I have the FAA paper work for serial number 707 on my
>>desk. It came with two nine gallon wing tanks and had an empty weight of
>>802 when it left the factory. With a passenger and 38 pounds of baggage,
>>they figure fuel load to be about 12 gallons.
>
>Really? S/N 707 is pre-813 (the magic number) which means it should have the
>older-type landing gear, and the 7.7 gallon ternaplate (steel) tanks.
>Certainly the
>9-gallon aluminum tanks weren't stock at that point. The 8-gallon
>ternaplate tanks
>were standard well beyond 813.
>
>So I find this all a bit odd.
>
>Greg
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