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Janderson1235

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  • Birthday 03/01/1989

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    East Texas
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    1235X
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    M20 E

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  1. I am a petroleum engineer, but I am good with tools and can swing wrenches with the best of them. I have no doubt I could do this job myself but I can neither get a ferry permit to move it to my hanger, nor can I take months for it to get finished as I need this plane. I have got both personal and business things that are going on in Oklahoma, West Texas and New Mexico. If I had my way I'd just shove a MIG welder up there, do an ugly but effective weld job, paint it, and call it good. But big bro FAA wouldn't like that, nor would the next buyer.
  2. Again, I really appreciate your advice. Indeed I have taken a sick plane to the savior, he is after all the only person to have found the corrosion that has clearly been there a long time. And don't get me wrong, I have met Don quite a bit now and he seems to be a super guy and really knows his stuff. I'm just simply trying to get some confirmation that 13k is really the standard rate for fixing my corrosion issue. Although I am young to aviation, at this point I am quite familiar with how expensive everything is. I spend a grand on getting a used transponder after my narko went out. Those things are essentially vacuum tube technology, and when you compare that to say an iPhone that costs half that, no wonder general aviation is dying. And if the insane cost does not kill it, cheap self driving cars will... It makes me sick. I just want to fly. I don't have a problem keeping that engine running, this past year I have logged almost 200 hours. I fly all the time. If I can keep this Mooney in the air then maybe one day I'll use it for a honeymoon! Thanks,
  3. Thank you for your advice, I appreciate it. To answer your questions, 2) Yeah I am not the most experienced aviator, I have been flying for three years and I have my instrument rating. I trained in a 172 and have flown nothing but my mooney ever since. 3) I didn't want to use names just in case I was given a dishonest quote, but yes I am at D-Max because according to this forum he is the best. I saw a thread in my research of him where a guy wrote a smear post of him and he got eviscerated by many people that backed up Don. So of course I am not here to start problems, I just want to know if 13K sounds right for a wing removal and quick fix of a hole in the steel tubular. 4-5) Yeah, I will definitely get a PPI next time. If I have to part out my plane I think I will want to go partner on a 252. I wanna go fast! 7) It is cool that it was my late grandfathers plane, but at some point if the trend continues I will run out of money to pour into it. 11) Don said that I would not be able to get a ferry permit because the problem I have is structural. I already knew this from another thread here. A guy had spar corrosion and tried to get a ferry permit and couldn't, so he had to take a hack saw to it... Very sad and I don't want that at all. 13) I am 27 now. I am single and have a solid job as an engineer so that's how I am able to do this, barely. Every dime I make eventually finds it's way into this plane. I call it my aluminum wife. I figured that after putting in a new engine that I would be out of the woods but clearly not... 14) I don't think so. I think I would maybe see 30-35k for parting it out, but I have no experience with selling aircraft parts let alone parting out a plane. Hopefully if it comes to that Don can help me out. 19) I'll find his threads for sure! 20) oh yeah, I'll be blasting corrosionX into it every year from now on. 21) that's the stage i'm at now, i'm having Don evaluate the airframe to make sure that if I give the go-ahead to take the wing off, that they won't find anything else that will cost more money. In other words, make sure the plane is worth the repair.
  4. I'm sorry, like my profile says I am a "newbie" and I don't know how to start a new thread. To answer your questions though, This was my grandfather's plane that sat next to the ocean under a T hanger for years. Being new to aviation (I was 24) I didn't know about PPI's, sure wish I did one though. I got it because I got a good family discount, but I have spent so much on it it's getting to the point that I don't know how much more I can take. I have had it for 3 years now and have spent about 60K on replacing everything but the airframe; it got a new engine last year. Yes it is at a MSC, and without naming names, from my extensive reading throughout mooneyspace he is well respected. That's why I took it to him for this year's annual. I am just doing my due diligence and making sure 13K is reasonable instead of opening my checkbook off of blind trust.
  5. I guess he sees this problem a lot because he said the last three Mooney's that had my problem came in around 13K. I'd like to get another opinion but my mechanic also said that since it's a structural issue, I would not be able to get a ferry permit.
  6. Hello all, I have a 64' E and my mechanic just found corrosion on the lower steel tubular longeron and said he needs to remove the wing to do the quick weld job to fix it. He quoted me $13,000 to remove the wing and fix the corrosion. In reading another thread I saw that someone said that removing the wing is possible in a day if not two. So if that is the case, is $13,000 reasonable? Surely it does not take two weeks to hook the wing back up to the fuselage right? Thanks
  7. Hello all, Sorry to veer the subject from the salvage 201, but this thread was the only one with "wing removal" in the title. I have a 64' E and my mechanic just found corrosion on the lower steel tubular longeron and said he needs to remove the wing to do the quick weld job to fix it. He quoted me $13,000 to remove the wing and fix the corrosion. In reading this thread I saw that someone said that removing the wing is possible in a day if not two. So if that is the case, is $13,000 reasonable? Surely it does not take two weeks to hook the wing back up to the fuselage right? Thanks
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