flashf16

Hello all. Putting our 1980 231/262 up for sale. Pictures are available under my profile (Flashf16), and I can be contacted at flashf16@earthlink.net or 334-202-3782 with any questions. It's easier to say what it doens't have, than what it does. Loaded with mods, new paint and fresh out of annual. 601 SMOH on the -MB engine. It'll also be on Trade-a-Plane, Barnstormers, etc. in the next few days. Thanks, Ryan Barker

The only related item on the pre-buy was the fuel tanks. The previous owner did fix them (or so he and I thought) and he got a brand new paint job put on the airplane after having the leaks 'fixed'--not wanting to have fuel leaking period, but especially on new paint. The ballast was put there by the previous owner because he always flew the airplane by himself and wanted to have more downward trim for a few more knots. I mostly fly with my family, so I definitely have the weight in the back. Even when they're not there, I'll carry the cover and a couple quarts of oil.

Alan, I've had the airplane for about a year now (traded for my Glasair III). I flew it to PFN for pleasure and had my 2nd alternator fail. Since it was due for an annual anyway I thought it would be a good idea to have this shop do that as well. The short version is I was given an outrageous quote for the repair to fix the 'non airworthy items' (just under 18K--no typo) and promptly got a 2nd opinion from another shop on the field. The 2nd quote was less than a third as much as the first so it's now at the 2nd shop. The summary of the time consuming items has been 1) getting the plane from the 1st shop to the 2nd (almost had to get lawyers involved) 2) re-sealing the fuel tanks (in and outboards--long range tanks) 3) tracking down an electrical problem that turned out to be something the current shop caused 4) and last but not least, replacing a mag that was fine when I flew it last Change 3 to the UL: it's 840 now as 25lbs of ballast were removed from the tail. A lot more than you wanted to read... Ryan

Alan--815 for the useful load. 919 when it was new. I still don't have the airplane back, but I did manage to get the POH.... Ryan

Alan--I believe you're correct. While I still don't have my airplane back (brutal), I looked at my excel w&b sheet and what I have entered there comes out to 915 lbs for the useful load. I'll double check it against the actual aircraft w&b when I get it back. Ryan

Useful is a bit over 1000lbs. With all 106 gallons of fuel I only have a little over 400lbs for payload, with the standard 76 gallons, right around 600lbs payload.

The 262 conversion includes new POH inserts with updated performance charts....so 'book' does in fact mean IAW the appropriate 262 POH numbers.

Excellent point--if I find there's no change with the fixed induction leaks, I'll have the folks at Cole Aviation check the rigging for me. Thanks for the reply, Flash

Folks--I have a 1980 231/262 that was running consistently about 12-15 kts slower than book at any given altitude. After making sure the gear wasn't hanging out and the speedbrakes were retracted (just a touch of sarcasm) and verifying the Man/RPM/FF numbers were correct, I had the baffling checked (it was 'okay') and then found that there were a couple of induction leaks. I haven't gotten the airplane back to ops test it yet, but my two main questions are 1) are there any other 262 owners on this site who have some performance info they can pass along (even generally--like "yes, I'm close to book numbers") and 2) would the induction leaks (two of the six induction tubes had leaks) be enough to account for that much of a performance loss...? Thanks, Ryan

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