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Aero Comfort 210-340-0177. Hector. Redid my seats. Easy to work with. Very accommodating. Will build to what you want or will give you clues to comfort. All certified.

I think people get "cynicism" mixed up with "realism". This continuing notion that Mooney International can continue structured as an aircraft manufacturer while only having a future as a replacement parts supplier leads to this continuous unsustainable negative cash flow. Mooney is carrying the liability of the aircraft it manufactured 2014-2019 into the later part of the next decade. The turns into legal expense, insurance expense, filing expense. As painful as it sounds, Mooney needs to file bankruptcy, get rid of all its liabilities, shrink down to the smallest footprint needed to just manufacture Mooney parts or maybe even license someone else to build them. They don't need a CEO, COO and Chief Engineer. They just need a plant manager. Otherwise it just drains anyone that tries to do it. It drained the Chinese and they brought buckets of cash. It drained the "US Financial" investors and I don't think that they brought any cash. And it will drain LASAR too if they are unrealistic and overpromise.

I Saw that. The part number is the same but the picture is different.

680031–029 Propeller Doubler Spinner McCauley Hartzell | eBay It says that they have two (2) available and they are Yellow tagged.

I need to two doublers part number 680031-029 if anyone has spares.

I agree 100% Call me crazy, but I don't think a 30% increase is that out of line. Especially when we already know that the current prices don't really mean a thing if their respective parts aren't even available.

This sure is a cynical group. Personally, I would rather have expensive-but-available Mooney parts than cheap-but-unavailable parts. I only rarely need actual Mooney parts but when I do need them, it's usually something standing between me and actually using my airplane.

You are correct - your last sentence captures it perfectly. The only time that Mooney was able to "spread it (fixed costs) out over volume" was when they were making aircraft. As Maxwell said previously - Mooney can't make it on selling parts alone. If it could, then it would be humming along with Meijing still owning it. And what about the owner investor group, US Financial, that supposedly bought 80% of the company? - why didn't they provide this finance that LASAR "claims" it will bring? Now they have a "middleman" with lofty titles of CEO and COO. Mooney still has people with CEO, COO and Chief Engineer titles. What exactly does the COO at Mooney do (and what is Mooney paying for) if LASAR is "Building the plan: Sequenced a Year-1 ~$3M parts build by safety-of-flight impact and lead times.... Tightening the plumbing: Clear change control, traceable paperwork, and purchasing tied to real shop schedules."?? There is another thing that makes no sense here - perhaps business owners or those involved in a company's finances spotted it in the announcement. Mooney International (the company) is not covering it's costs so Mooney is increasing the prices it charges for products that it makes. That increased revenue (and margin) goes into Mooney's pocket - not into LASAR's pocket. But LASAR claims "LASAR Aviation is the entity keeping Mooney funded". If so LASAR will want to earn a return on that - that means LASAR needs to mark-up the price that they pay Mooney for the parts. I wager that they will mark-up another at least 10-20% for the prices that they sell to MSC's. So in reality prices are probably going up 50%. They may have good intentions but this could easily overwhelm them. On Facebook Mooney Pilots someone commented "The 30% increase right off the bat is a load of $h*t. They (LASAR) can’t even keep their own over priced parts in stock, what makes them think they can take on the whole Mooney catalog?"

No Truer Words ever spoken ! Preflight, even w/ someone standing around makes the hairs on the back of my neck curl. I HATE it !! Now I demand total silence, and go stand . . . Over There.

Lasar website no longer has a link for Parts. Curious if the direct to consumer parts has changed?

I bought some rear headrests once from a 1996-2002 4Runner that worked

LASAR is not a large company...they are a small company. LinkedIn shows 18 employees. When they announced they were moving to Prineville a few years ago, they told the press that they expected about 25 jobs. D&B Hoovers shows revenue to be $1.2 million. Even if these numbers are slightly off, LASAR is a tiny company in the scheme of things. No wonder they used AI to draft the letter.

BAS put an 880050-501 from an M20M on ebay this morning.

Any idea what the total staffing head count is between Mooney and Lasar? I assumed only handful of people were left. Any idea how many people are left between the two? Engineers, mechanics, and parts people—builders? The letter makes it sound substantial but perhaps that's part of the image.

I need one and Lasar is back ordered with no current manufacturing source. Anyone have a source? 914020-017 bushing-$41.40 Back order-Waiting list (still sourcing)

@Jetpilot86 Kudos for the empirical data compilation, thanks for sharing.

If the "true cost" of a part is more than the market will bear in a sustainable fashion, then you can't charge that much. I think there was just a different assessment of the business and marketplace between the two managements. I'm not sure the new path is any smarter than the old one. Maybe less so.

Sounds like those didn’t taste good going down.

My first thought as well. I don't have a problem with using AI to rewrite things like this for clarity, but at least spend some time tailoring the output.

So the suggestion is "other diseases such as colorectal cancer" would only have been detected by the AME and not regular health care? Also, it would have to be presented externally since "excluding a digital exam." My understanding is the finger wave is about prostate not colorectal cancer. Likewise for body marks, scars and tattoos. Apparently this is strictly for body identification purposes. With DNA being available seems of little value. I also doubt that for most GA accidents people don't reach out to the FAA Aeromedical for body identification information.

When I read the term "true cost" I immediately jumped to misallocation of fixed costs. Mooney surely has a lot of fixed overhead at that big facility that would be much lower per unit if they could just spread it out across some volume... and with volume decreasing now that the fleet is shrinking, there probably is some reckoning that's long overdue. I could see that hiding on a P&L for a while with a big healthy dose of "next month/quarter/year will be better, and we can spread those costs out at our current price levels". The real problem is that Mooney has a facility sized and equipped to build airplanes out of, and they're trying to support it by building parts. That has probably never been a solid long term business plan.

I think that would work perfect, but my system is a 12v. Thank you for the offer though

I finally got tired of sanding and painted my headliner. It was in 9 pieces with some major holes. The plastic was vert brittle. It had the structural integrity of a saltine cracker. I reassembled all the parts with fiberglass and epoxy on the back side. Recreated all the missing parts with fiberglass. Sanded, painted, built it up with more fiberglass until it looked good. It is very robust and about as flexible as the original plastic.

If you replace them, you will traumatize the fiberglass and paint. Chasing the threads will get it working without screwing up the appearance of the cowl.

This is what I have: