Stubby

That's a terrible joke... I love it! haha

It kind of shocks me that he was able to receive/renew coverage without a valid certificate or medical. I had to submit copies of both when applying for coverage. One would think insurance providers would want to do their due diligence to make sure they know who they're covering. Heck, even my auto carrier checks my driving record every so often.

Very nicely done. I saw this Mooney in person a couple times and I was really hoping someone would give it the love it needed. I'm glad to see someone did.

Like a true North Dakotan I will smile and say "it could be 20 below".

I've got N9777F and that gets me tongue tied often and almost every controller drops a 7 out when repeating it. I've had a couple controllers just go with Mooney-Niner-Triple 7-Fox and that works pretty good.

Have you talked to Weep No More yet? Paul has a pretty long wait time right now which says a lot about his work. I just got myself on his "list" the other day.

This has me wondering if anyone has ever had a live mouse make itself seen during flight. I've had it happen in a tractor before and that almost ended in disaster... I can't imagine it happening in flight.

During a preflight the other day, I found the one on my right wing basically just sitting in its place. For as loose as it was (I popped it out with my fingers with minimum effort) I can't believe it was still there. Sealing it back in with RTV was very straight forward as mentioned by a few others here.

This seems to work well on pretty much everything and is easy to find. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Sprayway-23-oz-Glass-Cleaner-SW056R/305667042

FWIW... I emailed a few questions on this plane shortly after it was listed on trade-a-plane and never heard anything back. I also called the number provided a few days later and was unable to reach anyone.

I'm sadly dealing with that exact issue right now. Very hard to get a hold of or get any real information out of.

I'm almost positive this has been hashed out on this platform before, but I can't seem to find it in any searches. When shopping around, it seems like a lot of the listings I see are either very close to TBO, or very low hours SMOH. That being said, the listings with low hours since over haul a lot of times seem to be older overhauls with zero to minimal hours flown in the last year or two. I know there are certain risks associated with a motor that hasn't been operated regularly, but are they as prevalent as people make it sound? It seems that a lot of folks you talk to will tell you to run away from something that hasn't been flown 50hrs a year, but realistically, that's probably most GA planes. Does anyone have any first hand experience with buying something that has sat, whether that experience be good, bad, or indifferent? Thanks in advance for the knowledge to fall under this post...