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I'm in the extreme tire-kicking phase right now, the soonest I'm even in the neighborhood of thinking about buying is in two years, but thanks for the offer! Those are, in fact, the airplanes that got me asking this question in the first place though. My thoughts exactly--the last thing I want is to buy a "cheap" money pit that lives in the shop!
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How much of this was fixing things that you wanted fixed, and how much was fixing things that were current or developing airworthiness issues?
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+1 for the pulse-ox AND knowing your personal O2 requirements. I titrate to 93% or higher, usually that means I'm on oxygen above 5k, and just this weekend my pulse-ox caught an O2 system malfunction (I had left the main valve on my portable O2 bottle was closed).
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As I was bouncing through turbulence at 92 knots over the ground today, with my wife making faces from the right seat of my trusty cessna 152, I found myself thinking about the seemingly never ending stream of M20Cs on barnstormers, offered for not much more than the value of my current airplane. Just how cheap is too cheap for a mooney? If I'm willing to tolerate ugly paint, a ratty interior, and a strictly VFR panel, how cheap can I hope to find a mechanically sound Mooney with a mid-time engine that hasn't been abused?
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Is this how your Mite became experimental though? I was just wondering if it's even possible in theory, since I'd never heard of anybody doing it.
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Do you mean that it started as a 1953 M18C, but is now an experimental class aircraft? I have been wondering if an extensive restoration done by an amateur fits the 51% rule, and can turn the airplane into a homebuilt (with all the associated freedoms to modify).
