Good Luck Steve and Linda on your future adventures!?I'm sure I speak for?all
of us here that have dealt with you in the past for VW parts etc. when I say
that we appreciate the many years of excellent support that you both
provided.?Happy Trails ! Enjoy your retirement!?RegardsChris GardinerC-GKRZ?
On Monday, February 2, 2015 3:19 PM, STEVE via KRnet <krnet at
list.krnet.org> wrote:
Steve is not the youngest kid on the block anymore.? An opportunity came along
to sell Great Plains to Marty Roberts that was good for both of us.? Linda and
our son Scott will continue to do the landing gear, wheels, brakes, tires and
tubes (OKeefeAero.com).? Linda and I both have a desire to do a little sight
seeing around the US with our F350 and 5th wheel, and the sale of Great Plains
to Marty will allow us to do that.
Marty is pretty well up and running.? He has all the parts for direct drive
engines and most of the parts for flywheel drive engines (not to be confused
with rear drive where we had the housing and dampener).? He only has to have
some hubs made for the flywheel drive. He has all the individual engine parts,
bearings, cases, heads, Force One Hub kits, dual ignition, etc... and of course
the Diehl Accessory Case Components.? All the parts that Linda and I carried -
Marty has or will have them also.
In October of 2014, we sold all of our Sonerai parts to Fred Keip.? Fred has
been the Sonerai Newsletter Editor for many years and has built and flown his
Sonerai II for well over 1000 hours, VW powered of course.
Fred has the same products that we sold for the Sonerai Family of aircraft, so
it was a smooth transition also.
Linda is updating the Great Plains catalog and it will be back on line in a
couple of weeks.? It was out of date - price wise and did not match the
shopping cart prices.
Linda and I are in the background, helping Marty and Ellen (Marty's wife) do as
smooth of a transition as possible.
Our goal was to transition the parts to individuals that would continue to
support the homebuilt community.? Too many times when a sport aircraft company
is sold, the new owners fail and leaves many homebuilders without support of
the product/s they purchased from the company.? We did/do not want that to
happen.
Steve Bennett
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