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Good evening Kim:
I wish that you could have met my good friend Jack Compere that owned and flew 3047H, the yellow coupe on the U.S. Post Office stamp, for many years. He had polio as a young man and was in a wheel chair.
Jack's coupe was not modified other than having the large baggage compartment. He carried a small stool that he used to get himself up off the wing so he could lift his legs into the cockpit and then slide down onto the seat. He would dismantle his chair before he slid himself all the way up on the wing and stow it in the luggage compartment.
Another friend has Jacks take apart chair. So maybe if you wanted to give it a try I could ask. I think you should try this before you start cutting into your coupe.
Glad you made it all OK on Saturday: Maynard Smith, 99843, Colfax, CA.
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Date: 10/09/06 19:14:13
Subject: [COUPERS-FLYIN] STC for side cockpit door
Thanks to this group (Glen Putnam and others) I have tracked down the
STC from the FAA issued in 1972 for modifying the Ercoupe with a
"drop down" gull wing door that provides wheelchair storage and
tremendously improved access to the cockpit. I have the drawings,
spec's, etc. I definitely want to do this. As it requires some
airframe fabrication, etc, it needs a good A&P shop. Does anyone
have suggestions for where in Northern CA I could go to get this work
done??
I may wait on installing the bigger door/wheelchair storage until I'm
sure I can fly (and want to continue to do so, as I'm a new pilot)
before I tear up the airframe, but I want to find out who could do
this and at what price.
Kim Blackseth
N2332H
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