Dan Lawler

--I have a 1962 M20C, serial 2037. The flap-position selector knob (not the long pump handle) has a little center button that must be pushed in while pulling the knob out. It is very difficult to operate from the right seat. See pic. --Many years ago the first Mooney I flew had a different design of selector, with a flap-shaped handle that moved up and down not in and out. Does anyone know the part number of that design, and if it's possible to retrofit onto my Mooney. Thanks guys. All reactions: 44

Just reporting a sad thing I learned today. A Mooney M20C I had some exciting adventures in way back in the late sixties crashed in Canada this summer. N78886 had been exported to Canada as C-GTIJ. It seems to have been weather related. The lone pilot did not survive. Bummer.

No, my airplane does not appear to have the PC system at all. The trailing edges of the ailerons are different form later models too.

I recently bought N78925 which is an M20C serial 2037. To my surprise, this airplane is not equipped with the push-button on the wheel "Positive Control" system. Later Mooneys have slightly different shaped trailing edges on the aileron and the loved/hated PC system. Does anyone know what serial number began the factory installation of the PC system?

I'm remembering from a long time ago, but I used to stick a quarter under the PC button and twist it. That will pry the button up (it's a friction fit into the control wheel) enough to disconnect it electrically. Fly all day with the PC disconnected, but if you want it just push the button in and release, and PC is instantly back.

Thanks for adding me to the group. I brought my new (to me) airplane home to KPRC yesterday, and it brought a wave of nostalgia. There are almost 55 years between these two pictures. Both airplanes are nearly identical 1962 "C" model Mooneys. The brown one was the first retractable landing-gear airplane I ever flew. It is still flying, based in Wisconsin. I had many wonderful adventures in that bronze bird when it was nearly new in the late '60s. I have about 100 hours Mooney time, twentyish in a wood-wing M20A and the rest in the M20C, none of it more recent than 40 years ago. A friend and I used to shut down the wood-wing and we could ridge-soar it, prop stopped, in the orographic lift from the Estrella mountain ridge SW of Phoenix. I bought this blue Mooney from a friend. I can tell I'm going to have a fun time with my new bird. It's old now, but so am I!