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Where are they located? I could probably use them Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There are only a couple of places that people use once a case is split as well as crankshaft overhaul - period. Divco and Nicksons. Not many can certify and overhaul each and every part of that engine according to the manufacturers overhaul manual… Many shops will turn up their nose at your 4 banger when there is more margin in that 6 banger, that big bore 6 banger, and especially that fire breathing turbo beast. As an owner of a TSIO 360MB, all I have to say is OUCH. Why can’t my mooney mite go 200Mph???? Worse, private equity has entered the aviation room. The price of flying just became much much higher. Arcline bought Hartzell, Spruce is buying many, blah blah. All overhauls are field overhauls unless performed by the OEM. Only lycoming and continental technically can supply remanufactured / new engines. Whether Lycon, zephyr, Tim’s , Penn Yan or Joe Blow assemble your engine, all those shady tree overhauls are field overhauls unless someone can correct me here. Not to say that some shops aren’t great - they’re all field overhauls to service limits. A local friend of mine overhauls engines for 12k plus parts and work on it right away. Happy to put you in touch with him. For many pilots that’s a steal; for others including mechanics they would find that amount too much. Your mileage will vary. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Compton has one on the northeast side. Bring some gas and you can use my power washer. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I own a Mite. I own cessna singles. Mooneys, Comanches, and twins…I don’t own a jet anymore as I found it too frivolously rich for my blood. My field is uncontrolled- literally adjacent to the final of 4 runways on a very busy class B airport. Rumor has it Sling Pilot Academy lost their business license at their home drone- so they pollute each adjacent airport with 5 planes in the pattern anywhere they can fit them. 35 slings looking for places to saturate is quite a fleet. Since I’m often in the system I sometimes get dumped on a straight in final for the RIGHT runway at my uncontrolled field. There’s always an uppity CFI who has zero issue polluting the airways chatting it up with their pals, but is all too eager to provide an unsolicited, unpaid flight lesson where they authoritatively state that you can’t fly straight into an uncontrolled field. Everyone at my home field keeps saying it’s a matter of time before Sling has a midair or creates an incident at our untowered airport. Charging 90k per student to go from zero to commercial makes them feel pretty proud to write up their own regs without care for the normal unwashed pilot.

Sorry Alan - had dibs on it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Paint? Why? Plane looks perfectly serviceable! Take it from a paint shop owner - i have airplanes that come in with the paint hanging on by its fingernails grabbing for dear life. Yours is fine. One of these days I’ll find some awlgrip and grab a wing or something so I could paint it with Imron, JetGlo, PPG, Akzo, Awlgrip and a couple of the cheap fleet pains some shops use. The factory painted my K model with JetGlo - it’s embarrassing. I already know the answer as I’ve painted airplanes and have owned a number of different paint jobs for years - but seeing it first hand, people can make their own conclusions. Nothing outlasts Imron….including the careless painter that paints it without a mask. Imron lasts foreeeeever - but it is superbly toxic to shoot.

- Burn on the glass from stripper. - No detailing / careless preparation around tape lines. - Overspray from poor taping - Orange peeled paint from too heavy an application - Dry spots from not enough paint - Too thin an application showing thru to the primer - Runs from heavy application - Failing to cover steel parts during strip causing oxidation and damage in places like expensive bearings - Painting the airplane while instead of painting the airplane with the cowling off. - . Heavy sanding of the airframe never feathered, showing sanding lines through the paint - unpainted or incomplete jambs if paid for - landing gear wells take a lot of time and are greasy - check for quality of paint and finish - dirt , contamination - fisheye on the paint or solvent pop - removal of navigational lights and other plexi for paint as cheap can leave tell tales I cheated on creating the list - I own an airplane paint shop Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Bring me the sheepskin and the plane and I’ll sew the covers at the airport. Southern California. La. I just don’t have mooney patterns for every plane. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It keeps referring to 2550but nothing called out as static RPM on takeoff. What do people generally see when their mite is on the ground, full throttle, ready to take off? What RPM on average? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm looking for a copy of a Mite POH / Flight Manual. I found the "unofficial one" typed on the Mooneymite.org site, but I don't know if anyone has a copy of an original I can review. Specifically I am looking for the static RPM on the Lycoming O145....

I was simply going to match the code and I don’t full rattle cans….

I can mix paint for you in imron if you’d like Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes and no. Imron has a more reduced number of PT toners that are used on a number of product lines beyond imron. Beyond the Imron codes on their chip cards, Axalta sells an updated set of 2 spectramaster color books with a greater number of colors that can be mixed. Even spectramaster is limited in their shades and colors. The cameras which are made by the same manufacturers for various paint brands - and the chromatically they read are matched against the pigment databases the manufacturers provide. When they match a color code, you’re often given a number of color match choices and codes with a percentage of accuracy. You have to calibrate the camera oftenish to get the right options. I mix all of our own colors in my shop. Since we also paint cars on occasion, I have a full complement of Spies Hecker waterborne, challenger solvent, and other paints - so paint mixing and paint matching is something that we do often.

Bring me the sheepskin and I can sew them for you.

TSO’d or PMA’d? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk