Zulu Aviation

If anyone out there knows of someone still looking to rent a Mooney, we have one! Zulu Aviation Corporation. Give us a call at (817) 296-9164.

Thanks Hank, I will sure try. Technology isn't my strongest skill set and I am still learning to navigate this site, but I will seek them out. If you see any, I would also appreciate it very much if you could point them to us!

Zulu Aviation Corporation is running a contest during the month of August. Whomever flies our Mooney M20F the most hours during the month of August (with a minimum of 10 hours) will win the contest. The prize? You will get to fly our Mooney ANYWHERE in the continental United States for Labor Day weekend absolutely FREE! And when I say free, I mean FREE, as we are even throwing in the fuel! All hours (including dual instruction hours) count. Our insurance does require that you have at least 100 hours total flying time to be eligible to fly our plane (even with our contracted CFI), so that is the only requirement you must meet in order to be eligible to get into the contest and start flying some hours. Check us out at zuluaviationcorp.com or shoot me a private message for more details.

We are currently in the process of moving the Mooney to Hicks Field. Unfortunately, the FBO we were with wasn't able to survive the Corona economic shutdown and had to close their doors, permanently. We wanted to keep the Mooney at Meacham and checked with both of the other two FBOs at Meacham, but neither one had any ramp or hangar space available for us. We are finalizing the lease on a hangar at Hicks and hope to move it to that airport by the end of next week. Hicks Airfield is only about 10 miles north of Meacham Airport.

We were only doing the promotional "172" rate of $145 per Hobb hour through the end of February. We will run other promotions through out the year and I will post them on MooneySpace as we do. I am a former Marine, so I can assure you that we will be doing some kind of promotion to honor our veterans during the months of May and November. Our normal pricing is $175 an hour for the first 10 Hobb hours as an introductory rate, with a normal rate of $195 per Hobb hour after that.

Thanks for the kind words Don, glad you enjoyed flying her. It was good to meet you today as well. I try to meet all new customers in person when they go up on their initial flight, just to put a face with a name (or E-Mail address).

It is! We are hoping that some folks will take advantage of it during the month of February, get checked out in it and become regular customers for a long time.

I spoke with our insurance agent about this. He said you are looking about 100 hours retract time to really qualify for a reduced premium. The problem is that the savings in the reduced premium are not going to offset the savings one would experience from building their time in their own rig, even with the higher premiums.

Thanks Brian. Please spread the word. We offer a 10% commission on any revenue your referral generates during the first year that they fly with us! So if you know of any pilots looking to fly a Mooney in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, or any that want to fly in to do some block transition training before purchasing their own Mooney, just put them in contact with me. All you have to do is make sure you let me know you were the one that referred them to us, send us the 1099 you can download from our website (https://www.zuluaviationcorp.com/), and we'll send you a check for your commission each month for any hours your referral flew the previous month.

Looking forward to hearing from you Don! We are running a sale for the month of February: rent the Mooney for the price of a Cessna! Any hours flown in February will only be charged at a rate of $145 an hour! Tell your friends and earn a 10% referral commission for the hours they fly for the first year that they fly with us.

Zulu Aviation Corporation has a Mooney M20F for rent in Fort Worth at KFTW. We are running a sale in the month of February: rent the Mooney for the price of a C172! Any hours flown in the month of February will be charged a rate of $145 an hour. Check us out at https://www.zuluaviationcorp.com/.

Thanks carusoam! I appreciate it. IT is certainly not one of my stronger gifts.

Old Chub: Who is your CFI?

Our Mooney M20F is still available and we are looking to bring on more pilots. We are running a special for the month of February: Fly the Mooney for the price of a Cessna 172. Any hours flown during the month of February will be billed at the $145 rate we charge for our Cessna 172. Check us out at zuluaviationcorp.com or E-Mail me at zuluaviationcorp@gmail.com.

We are still in operation and are looking to bring on more pilots. Check out our web site at zuluaviationcorp.com. We are running a special in the month of February, fly the Mooney for the price of a Cessna! Any hour flown in February will be billed at the $145 rate of our Cessna 172.

We would love to have you come check us out!

We have partnered with a CFII who owns a Mooney M20E and has over 300 hours in Mooney's. We can certainly offer that level of training. Our CFI is the one who did the complex endorsement for my son and transitioned him from a 172 to the Mooney.

All these are very good questions, I am glad to see the plane is generating interest and stirring discussion. Marauder, I won't ever ignore anyone's question. You may not be a potential client, but there maybe one out there who is that is wondering the same question. To answer all the questions above: (1) The $180 rate for the first 10 hours is to generate both interest in trying the plane out (the corner drug dealer strategy to which 1964-M20E referenced) and to give pilots a break if they need to get instruction with a CFI to get checked off to fly the aircraft. Everyone will need to do a check ride and get checked out by our CFI to be covered by the insurance, but one will need about 10 hours with an instructor (depending on their overall flying experience) to get time in model to be covered by the insurance if they do not have any Mooney M20 hours logged. Those with Mooney experience will probably only need an hour check ride. (2) We encourage overnight and extended trips. That was one of the reasons we started this rental company. Before we purchased an airplane, we were finding it very difficult to find an aircraft we could rent for a weekend trip, especially one at an affordable price. Most wanted a four to five hour minimum and I wasn't going to pay $800 - $1,000 just for the plane to sit on the ramp for a Saturday. I get it, the owner has to get something since the plane is unavailable to rent, but let's get serious! So we came up with the formula below: Type of Rate Minimum Daily Rate Hobb Rate Introductory Rate 400.00 180.00 Regular Rate 450.00 200.00 The way this works, if you rent the plane Friday evening and bring it back Sunday afternoon, you will either pay the $200 per Hobb hour that the plane flies or $1,350 for the three days that it was checked out, which ever is greater. For example, we took the plane to visit my dad in northern Alabama, a four hour flight from Fort Worth. We left on Friday and returned on Sunday. If we were a renter, we would have only paid the $1,600 for the 8 Hobb hours ($200 x the 8 hour round trip flight), since the Minimum Daily Rate would be $1,350 for those three days ($450 * 3 days - partial days are counted as full days). So we would have been able to use the aircraft and let it sit on the ramp in Alabama on that Saturday at no additional charge, how awesome is that!. Now if we had taken the plane on Wednesday and returned it on Sunday during the Thanksgiving break, we would have paid the $2,250 for the 5 days at the daily minimum rate of $450 per day ($450 X 5 = $2,250). With this scenario, the Hobb hours are included in the rental and the renter is just paying by the day. (3) Please keep in mind that this is a wet rate. We reimburse for fuel up to $5.25 per gallon. There aren't many other rental aircraft out there to which we can compare this plane (this isn't a 172), but from what our research indicates, we are pretty competitive for a complex plane with a 200hp engine. Like Rwsavory pointed out, there is a 182 for $220 a Hobb hour in Memphis and here in north Texas, there is a Comanche 250 that rents for $225 an hour wet, so we feel pretty confident that we are offering this aircraft at a fair and competitive rate, not to mention that this is a Mooney! (4) We are currently working on getting a website up and will post the URL on this thread as soon as it is ready. Here are some pictures:

We have a 1967 Mooney M20F Executive for rent in North Texas. The aircraft is located at Fort Worth Meacham Airport (KFTW). This aircraft has the classic Johnson bar and you will need to be checked out in it by one of our instructors in order to rent it. The rental fee is $180 an hour wet for the first 10 hours and $200 an hour wet after the first 10 hours. It has a 430 WAAS with an optional Garmin 796 and Stratus for a an additional flat fee per rental. Drop me a line if interested.