Mark942

About 600 hours. Was IFR 25 years ago, then life soaked up all time and $.  Getting back into flying with a great little Mooney that needs a lot of TLC, but I am making it my hobby to restore and upgrade.  Love the way it flies.  I have owned two other planes years ago ( 140 Cherakee and Beech Sundowner).  This is first retrack, and I really love the way the Mooney flies.

I am a Purdue engineer and have owned a machine shop that did design and prototyping so I am looking forward to building a hanger and putting a couple machine tools in it to fab parts for a home built that I want to take on after I retire.

The 64 M20E that I have, has had a ton of upgrades by PO and very little as far as manuals, so I am working to find manuals and such on internet.  How did we do it before the internet ??? Spring project will be to reseal tanks.  My A/P says he will watch  but is too old (and wise) for that project.