--- On Wed, 8/19/09, THOMAS COOK <[email protected]> wrote:
From: THOMAS COOK <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ercoupe-tech] Nose Gear To: "eaaflyguy" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 9:26 PM I installed one of these Steel double nose forks on my 415C Coupe , N99625, in May of 1967, It was a very rugged unit and worked well. This plane had been sold several times since then but I saw it in 2005 and it still had that fork on it. Your question brought back many good memories of my first Coupe. Unfortunately the FAA file says it has ben destroyed. Regards Tom --- On Wed, 8/19/09, eaaflyguy <[email protected]> wrote: From: eaaflyguy <[email protected]> Subject: [ercoupe-tech] Nose Gear To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 12:03 PM 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.
