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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

Under ten bucks per station. A simple soldering iron does the trick. Make your life easy and mark each wire for headphone and mic as they’re wired differently. Remember that PTT also involves wiring two additional wires to your 3 terminals for a total of 5. Use heat shrink wrap to protect your soldering. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I bought a K model while working in IT….30 years ago I was looking for a J model, and a guy I later became friends with named Jim Cardella was brokering a K whose price continued to drop due to it being on probate. Oh well…it was too much plane for me…so I thought. I flew that airplane all over the Midwest, in rain, snow, over the mountains, over freezing rain, threading the needle between storms after spending oodles in Garmin Candy to help my autopilot. That’s where my hatred for Garmin price gouging began After needing to paint two of my planes and being outraged at the high cost of some shops, I decided to paint my own planes. While I was at it, I decided to consolidate, and an E model seemed the right choice. My consolidation efforts failed miserably. Today, I own 13/14 airplanes and counting. My K model is still with me for now, and so is a for-pleasure, entirely on principle purchase of a mooney mite whose annual I’m about to finish. Sorry, no space in the back seat for any kids…I own a paint, upholstery and avionics shop, so I get the pleasure of bringing some airplanes back to life and bringing some of these beauties back to their previous glory. If only I had more time On paint: One of the airplanes I see come by my shop that has phenomenal corrosion durability is the piper comanche for parking outdoors. The factory chose in their wisdom to zinc chromate the airframe inside and out - I’ve seen planes come in with barely a memory of paint hanging on by its fingernails, and once stripped, not an ounce of corrosion…proper preparation and proper primer use is essential for durability. Nothing lasts longer than Axalta Imron if you’re parking your plane outside. If all the steel parts aren’t properly treated right after stripping, and primed in short order, premature rust will show up on your paint job a few months after you’ve paid. Some shops use cheaper brands and types of paint for stripes to save themselves cash. Guess what the first thing to chalk up or peel is, requiring a new paint job? On upholstery: We love the look of double stitching. We also love to use basting tape to protect the stitch. Perforated leathers get destroyed by sun and knees, and some people love memory foam. Plenty of outstanding aviation leather brands out there. If you’re using vinyl, there’s cheap and outstanding versions. The amount of glue used makes a difference. On avionics: many many shops charge a percentage of hardware sale cost to back into installing hardware and will run away from repairs, troubleshooting or less lucrative jobs in favor for the keeping-up-with the joneses-85k-panel-redo’s with G600 autopilots. Whatever. Take a look at their completed harness work, and don’t get gouged. Some will harmlessly offer a seemingly low hourly rate and then surprise you with “oh my gawd we found thiiiis raaaaats nest behind your panel” doubling your cost. Don’t do it. Get a not to exceed price quote and get a timeframe guarantee.

I get that - my comment was aimed at a lack of a built in display, provided only by the 375…for a cool $9k. Sure, you get GPS approaches also…. The NGT 9000 is $6300 MSRP. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Tail beacon is easiest and doesn’t require installing an extra antenna. Garmin GDL82 is second easiest - but you need to pop in a WAAS antenna. Then you’re into other piggybacks like Garmin GDL84’s and 88’s - some have built in waas and others don’t - so antenna install needs may vary. Then You have transponders like the GTX 335 with their own waas and antenna, blah blah blah.- price is twice that of tail beacon. Used free flight and navworx/avidyne boxes are great and include in and out, but you need to know how to plug them in and configure them. Going up the price scale you have awesome boxes like the L3 NGT9000 for in and out. Imagine a GTX345 that needs neither a waas receiver or a screen - it’s an all in one box. Or you can throw $9k at the problem and have a GPS/Adsb in and out transponder like the Garmin 375…. Other solutions like Trig and Bendix still require a WAAS receiver so that buys you nothing. Little do I despise more than the Garmin monopoly…. I’m happy to build harnesses for anyone who needs them.

I bought complete flying airplanes for $4700…. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Buying tail rack a used involve not only making sure you have the password so you don’t have to bug the manufacturer, but also the gaskets have to be replaced on the regular lest you want to waste your money for a failed device. Is ionic sells repaired / refurbished ones too. They’re easy to install but the elements help them fail more often than I’m willing to open my wallet to have to replace them.

A kitten dies every time someone installs Garmin product. If they make a new version of the old version, they intentionally switch pins around to create avionics installer revenues. No reason the 430–>650 upgrade should have required so many pinout changes, or the 327–>330–>335–>345 install, let alone differences between the gdl82/84 and the GTX family. The SL30 which was a great piece of equipment until the Garmin monopoly purchased the Iimorrow/apollo/upsat company and drove them out of business still lives strong 30 years later. I’d rather buy an SL30 than Garmin if I can help it. If I want to buy new, the Trig is an awesome option to install. I’m always happy to install them for customers - and as someone else said, the SL30 emulation for course tuning works great. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don’t know that I feel as negative as some of the others here. I’ve bought and sold a ton of airplanes. It is no easy skill. I say that as someone who owns a shop that does paint, upholstery and avionics aside from maintenance. I’ve bought a flying mooney even in the last year for as little as 7k, though 55-85is more realistic for what you have in mind. Buy your own plane - don’t rent. You’ve already got some nice time logged. Don’t fall into the trap”get great avionics” trap. A reliable airplane with a mediocre panel, a six pack and old radios flies just as fast and as reliably as one with a brand new Garmin and Dynon / avidyne stack. What’s the likelihood your deferment will make it thru? Some are and some aren’t

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Brand new, never used Garmin IFR GPS155XL. It includes a brand new, never installed AK950 annunciator, new Garmin GA-56 GPS Antenna, installation kit, and unused registration card. Why buy a used one on eBay for $1700 when you can have a *brand new one* here that includes the antenna, install kit and annunciator for less? As a bonus, if you’d like, I can include an installation harness for you at no additional cost. I also have a GI102 available if interested. Accepting offers! Cheers!

The cushions for the seats are available - but the insert that fits over the fold down seats is a pain in the butt to find Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk