I believe you will find this gear shown on page 21 of Univair's Ercoupe
Parts Catalog.
Only Univair could offer information as to how many of these are in the
field. My guess would be around 100 or so.
Regards,
WRB
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On Aug 19, 2009, at 14:03, eaaflyguy wrote:
> After I bought my ercoupe, my father and a good friend of his who both
> owned ercoupes in the past said I had a non-standard nosegear. The
> airplane actually came with a spare single fork nosegear, and my
> father still had a single fork nosegear from his ercoupe he had in the
> 1960's.
>
> I was at the ercoupe forum at Oshkosh, and someone said there was a
> Tri-pacer nosegear on an ercoupe at the field. I was urged to replace
> my gear with the original single fork, until I found a reference to a
> univair part in the skyport catalog…..
> U415-34090-1A Univair double arm steel nose gear conversion. Which
> matches mine.
>
> The gear has a flange for a tow bar, and the fork looks like a plate
> of ¾" steel bent in a U shape to house the wheel. Not quite a stylish
> as the cast original, but beefy.
>
> I have not seen any other coupes with this gear, or the conversion
> listed on the univair website (It may be in the catalog?). Does
> anyone else have this nosegear mod? I'm curious when they were made or
> discontinued, and roughly how many were put out in service.
>
>
>
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