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Didn’t know that there was a problem with Mooney’s throwing blades

Tried to look up how many aircraft are based there but couldn’t get an answer wondering if they are using city owned hangars on yearly leases or long term leases. Seriously doubt the new “owners” are going to want to co exist with the existing GA community. Death by attrition one city, oops I mean one airport at a time.

THX, 76srat looking at the FAA registry I show only my Mooney with my N number and if I do a serial number search there are dozens of different types including my D and the E that we discovered plus an m18 so based on that I think it’s a non issue.

Actually it was both, first a matching N number then the discovery of a matching serial number. I have put the issue into the nothing to see here category.

This just breaks my heart, hope the surviving passenger makes a quick and complete recovery and can shed some light on what happened. Following this thread you could feel the excitement about the new to him Mooney. Also the frustration trying to solve the issue but what was he to do after he was told that the problem was solved including test flights. I agree with the comments that conditions should have been a no go for a new to him flight with a possible issue with reliability. this really sucks

It may come as a surprise to some of you that not everyone flying and owning a Mooney has massive amounts of disposable income that can just provide a significant investment into something so ambiguous as this. Don’t want to see LASAR or Mooney fail but it’s really not our responsibility to insure their success. People are free to do whatever they like with their money but I take offense from anyone trying to guilt folks into this.

I think a Picasso painted tool shed would look awesome

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Not helpful but very funny

Checked and reporting facility was Kansas City center. So likely an entry error. But searching further discovered that there is an m20e same year as our d that shares the same serial number in the FAA registration records I understand that pre 1966 serial number assigned were not as specific ie year and model related and were just sequential. This raises a question about whether I need to take action with the FAA I know the data plate on our D is consistent with the registration on file. Looking at the pictures of the E it’s a nice looking plane and has a different tail number.

Thanks, I’ll check the reporting facility. It’s never happened before so makes sense that it was just a typo and not a miss registration. 190 knots wish it was me.

Hey Scott, I know mine is a o360 and not the same but every time I do the first start of the day it fires instantly but it’s a very sudden almost like a bang and then perfectly smooth. It’s not a backfire like a jolt kind of hard to describe but it’s always done this. When I crank it I don’t even see two blades before it starts. I don’t know if that’s what you’re describing but kind of sounds the same. Might be nothing. I re read your description and see where you have sputtering first so that would be different than what I experience except for violent part. Could be the difference between a carburetor prime and an FI one.

I went to flight aware to review my flight yesterday and entered my tail number and my two flights came up but there was a third flight that had the same number and was listed as a Mooney but with an unknown owner. The flight was a couple weeks ago in Illinois the profile showed a cruise speed of around 190 at 7500. Seems very strange any one had this happen to them.

Yesterday my CFI friend and I took a short flight to LVK for an AOPA town hall. The turnout was a full house the new CEO made a very nice presentation first about his history in GA and then a pretty detailed list of issues that they are focusing on for the coming year. It’s very clear that he has a real commitment to the GA community. Weather was perfect for our flight except for a real strong headwind for the flight home mostly no better than mid one twenties miles per hour ground speed but surprisingly smooth nevertheless. He flew the P51 pictured below. Another famous attendee was Julie Clark in her beautiful 34 sadly I was the only Mooney on the ramp.

This beauty visited our home field some years back and was taking folks for rides. What’s important about this photo is the signage in the background.