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We flew our Mooney from Germany to Australia last year and returned this spring. Here is a little video series about the getting there: Hope you like it!

Thank you RM is 25-1230, in fact the last 252 built.

Thanks for all the replies and sorry for being late myself! Wifi was terrible in Lombok and it’s not much better here in Dili. Anyway, it’s only two and a half hours from here to Darwin and we‘ll be there the day after tomorrow. The Asic card we remembered from last time. We’ve applied for one and we should be able to collect it in Darwin. Concerning the throttle lock I think we‘ll take a rather relaxed approach And yes, we already got many invitations after Tina wrote to AMPA. It seems, that most of you are based in the East and South (well, not hard to guess when looking at a map of Australia ). We plan to visit the red center and Queensland first but we want to fly all the way down to Tasmania. I‘ll post updates here. Thanks again, Gunter

We are on the way from Europe to Australia with our 252. Actually we have made good progress, we’re currently in Lombok, Indonesia. If all goes well, we’ll arrive in Darwin by Thursday this week. Our plan is to fly around the country for a couple of weeks. I have some questions and I know there are Aussies here, at least @Mooney in Ozdoesn’t disguise his home base. I‘m not completely new to flying in Australia, we have been down under twice and rented an aircraft. Once out of Sydney and once out of Perth. Altogether I have about 50 hours VFR in Australia under the belt. From our previous visits I know that CASA mandates this (somewhat quirky) throttle lock and we don’t have one. Is there chance to get one that fits a 252 once we arrive in Darwin? We‘ll have to change the oil at some point. At home I do that myself, but away from base we’ll need a shop where we can cut open the filter, get rid of the oil and so on. A borescope to peek into the cylinders would also be good. Does anybody have a recommendation? And finally, more general: Where should we fly to? Is there a place we must visit besides the famous tourist destinations like Uluru? Or maybe we could even meet and have a beer?

Yes, exactly. With our 252 these were pop rivets. I’m not sure if they were original or there was work done before.

We’re based in Germany and had it done by a shop in Gera, Germany: Olaf Roth Aircraft Painting We are quite happy with the result and the way we worked with Olaf and his team. This will probably be of little interest to most here but maybe another European owner comes across this.

After the refurbishment of the interior of our 252 it was time for a paint job. Of course it's hard to post about a freshly painted Mooney after the Anomaly but anyway, here she is, still in the paint shop's hangar: Actually it’s almost the original scheme, except for the wings. We felt that a Mooney from the early nineties should look like a Mooney from the early nineties. That of course is just personal taste. The colors are a bit more modern (so we think): The white ("Snow White") is lighter and the brown ("Macadamia Metallic") is much darker than it used to be. However, the wings were solid brown when she left the factory and we thought this would be too much with the new dark brown. Therefore we tried to mimic the original scheme of the fuselage on the wings with a white center part. We had all control surfaces, inspections hole covers and gear doors removed. The cowl and many of the fibre glass fairings were removed an refurbished as they were in rather poor shape. Here are a few more details: Refurbished cowl New scheme on the wings Macadamia Metallic looks quite different in direct light The wing walk is brown, not black as usual. Scheme on the fuselage is exactly as it was Empennage hasn't changed Gear doors

Yes, countries in Europe are tiny compared to the US and there are many of them with different languages. Here is an example in French and Spanish:

For those of you who intend to cross the pond one day and then might end up in Germany

You could ask ACG in EDFQ. They know Mooneys and one of the guys there is really good with sheet matel.

Yes, it’s Alcantara, the same as the seat centerpieces. The backing is the original plastic part. It was covered with some sort of fabric but I’m not really sure that was original.

That’s a good idea, machine screws are always the better alternative! But how exactly did you do it? Did you glue the nuts in place beforehand? How did you manage to align them correctly? Am I too dim? Well, it’s winter here too, so let’s hope the best The upholsterer used really tiny screws to attach them. I’ll report how this goes…