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If you'd consider owner finance with about $30k down, shoot me a message.

Does no one check the fuel pressure before starting?

I just posted - looking for owner finance with a large down payment, if youd consider that I wouldnt negotiate price on this one.

Hi Everyone, This is a throwaway account for privacy reasons. I'm looking to purchase another Mooney. I owned one in the past. I purchased a business a couple years ago, which drove my DTI ratio through the rough, so conventional financing will be tough. I could do $30k Down, maybe more, and strong monthly payments. Depending on the total price, maybe just 2 or 3 payments. Willing to do this completely legal, use a title lien, etc can can provide bank statements, etc from the business. I will hold the aircraft in the LLC that also holds my business property (about $2M in value). If you would consider this, shoot me a message. I'll come see the aircraft, etc. EDIT: Wanted to add I'm ok with a C or E, etc. Trying to stick with "beggars cant be choosers". I will take a high time engine with newer avionics. Thank you

You may have just found what we call a "hangar queen". The registered owner, which seems to be keeping the registration current is BUDLEY LTD. in MI. The Principal Officer of Buldley LTD is DOUGLAS CLIFTON PARKER. He is listed in the FAA Airman as a Commercial Pilot and Flight Instructor. However the internet shows he is 79 years old. And FAA Airman shows that his last 3rd Class Physical was in 2010 and nothing since then. His FAA Airman address matches the Mooney Registration address which is a PO Box. However, the mailing address of Budley Ltd is a home at 315 TERRACE POINT CIR, MUSKEGON, MI, 49445. The landline is (616) 285-8062

@0TreeLemur, was this you, Fred??? Either way, it's impressive!

I've decided to take it with me to MKE, so there's no time crunch for picking it up. Edited the post to make the change.

Interesting. Sounds like just used google earth to trace a picture and make a KML file that was uploaded to ForeFlight. Then just hand flew the track shown on ForeFlight.

Thank you for your input. I'm sorry if my first post was not clear- the switch is wired directly to the oil pressure gauge. It is a toggle switch. So in one position the oil pressure gauge works as normal and the factory intended. In the other position. The signal is sent off to a wire is not connected to anything. Perhaps it was at one point, but no longer. It is intentional as the connector is covered with shrink tube and zip tied.

BAS parted a Bravo out starting about 4 weeks ago, maybe they still have the entire link, otherwise owner produced part, any machine shop with a lathe can make it, worth a try to coax the material specification out of LASAR or a MSC

I was kind of hoping the pilot was on MS and could give us a behind-the-scenes view Seems like it would take a lot of work. Here’s the original Reddit post fwiw https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/s/NlwCamvh3k ETA: There’s actually a lot of follow up discussion since I first saw the post earlier today, and the OP gave some details on the process.

I wonder what this looks like in the cockpit…gps coordinates for waypoints? Set up with ForeFlight and pushed to panel? How many waypoints? Pretty cool!

Wild guess is that it’s a remote mode selector for the engine monitor. But this doesn’t even look like an aircraft switch, and there’s no mounting screws in it - so it might be something like an input selector for your audio panel. No clue about the oil pressure fluctuation. If you hadn’t chased the wires, I would guess the oil pressure gauge is affected by interference from whatever that switch is controlling. Having a mysterious unlabeled switch that directly affects your factory oil pressure gauge is undesirable.

Holy smokes! Excellent art! 4:30 hours! That took some serious effort!

Exactly!

I think that’s a sub-optimal approach. I have seen flooded engines catch fire at the pump. I’m kidding. Starting an engine simply requires a combustible mix of fuel and air. I have never had to flood a Lycoming engine to get it to start.

Hello detectives. I have a new, beautiful M20J. It includes a mysterious, unlabeled switch. My pieces of evidence: 1) when toggling switch, only noticeable change is that the factory Mooney oil pressure gauge pegs high. Toggle switch back, it goes back to normal reading. 2) chasing wires of switch, it appears to be a 2 position switch that interfaced with the oil pressure gauge. The wires on the other end of the switch head towards RH side of panel but are disconnected and tied off. I would like to remove this switch one day, but am curious about what it may have done? Plane has a JPI700 and Fuel Scan 450. Any idea what instrument may have, presumably, ingested oil pressure data when the pilot flicked the switch?

And it was drawn by a Mooney!

Okay, this is pretty cool. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N7132V/history/20251002/1530Z/KTCL/KTCL Saw the pilot post on Reddit, but thought this was more properly shared on MS Nicely done

Just be careful. If you have to flood it often because it won’t start hot/warm, you’re doing a lot more starts than needed with excessive fuel in the engine. It’s in the exhaust, maybe dripping down the intakes, etc. there’s maybe a slightly increased risk of fire. The engine should start pretty well if the ignition system is set up correctly and the plugs are good. Once in a great while, a flooded start happens, but shouldn’t become SOP.

Stainless screws tend to gall and seize up in the nut plate and then break off and then you have one heck of a problem. We just started using more and more cad plates steel fasteners, which don’t do this nearly as often. Spinner screws in M20Js are another notable example.

i do exactly as you've been told, hot start, if that doesn't work, flood it.

Your best bet is to send a letter to the PO Box. You could contact the local airports around Muskegon.

That is correct. Lycoming and Continental require different approaches.

There’s no flight history on this a/c (or, at least, the last flight I see was in 2002). It seems to have a current registration, so presumably it’s still operational. The owner may have opted out of the commercial flight tracking databases. Maybe someone with a fancy adsbexchange subscription can see if it’s flying. The hive mind of MS is pretty good at these sorts of things, so I’m optimistic you’ll get in touch with the owner. Seems like a nice piece of aviation art that would be best kept with the plane. As mentioned elsewhere, you can almost certainly get in touch with the right contact if you go through the business records at the SoS office. But I understand that you’re short on time. Maybe someone here can provide a PM with contact info.