Funny (?) story. A friend of mine was part of a flying club a few years
ago. The club decided they wanted to expand their fleet and so they found a
relatively inexpensive piper super cruiser. The guy selling it was an old
farmer from a remote rural area. After they bought it, they came to
discover that the guy never bothered to get his pilots license because he
just flew it around his farm (!!!) Also, he never bothered to get his A&P
either, but he did all the maintenance himself. He never worried too much
about the FAA and figured he was so remote he wasn't bothering anyone else
with his hobby.
So by the time they got done pulling all the John Deer (tractor) parts off
the airplane the cost at least doubled for them to get it fully certified
and air worthy again in the eyes of the FAA. :-)
Curt.
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Martin Spott wrote:
> Gene Buckle wrote:
>
> > Awesome find Martin! I bet you could part out the avionics to help pay
> > for the conversion to a simulator. :)
>
> I'm not entirely certain what precisely we're going to do.
> The second part of the story is that, at the same day, we bought
> another aircraft, a Cessna 175 (yes, *5* :-) - D-EHRU an old lady
> born 1958 with a rare GO-300 engine:
>
> http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.php?id=600341
>
> This one _is_ airworthy but has a few slightly worn-out parts which
> we're considering to replace with pieces pulled from the D-EEQA. You'll
> imagine that preparations for purchasing these two birds and the
> upcoming maintenance have considerably shifted my focus recently ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Martin.
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