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On a recent flight in my J my passenger ( a bigger fella) leaned on the headrest as he reached to the back seat, and snapped the aluminum rod that holds the headrest in the seat. Has anyone else had this problem? Is it easy to fix? In some of the old posts some people mentioned that they have removed their headrests but I couldn't determine if they were talking about the front seats or the backseats. It seems to me the only purpose of the headrest is to have the Mooney logo embroidered on to them. I don't use the headrests and don't think anyone is going to rear end me. Wondering if I should take them both out.

The "strap" that you pull on to close the door (not the locking handle), has been replaced by the previous owner with an ugly chain in ugly plastic cover. As I am finally going to glue and reinforce the plastic panel on the door side, I am looking for a replacement "strap" Unfortunately I have no idea where to get one, and what is is actually really called. Any ideas out there ? Cheers Norbert

The plane goes in for avionics next week and while its down I was going to get a jump on refurbishing some of the interior plastics on the plane. I had a company come out and give me a quote on repairing and redying all the plastics in the plane, which came out to about $400 more than buying all new parts from planeplastics.com. I added 20% for trimming/fitting/dying the new pieces and it still came in below the cost of having the old, disintegrating pieces repaired and redyed. Has anyone done a full interior refurbishishment using planeplastic.com parts? How difficult are they to fit and get installed. The online pictures make them look like they don't come with screw holes, oxygen cutouts etc. How hard is it to get all this cut in correctly? And is the color decent or should i plan on having them redyed upon receipt? Any insight that you all have would be greatly appreciated.

I bought an Bravo as an insurance write off (landing in a marsh in salt water) and have take out most of the items I want, but have a load left over. None of this stuff has an EASA Form 1 or 8130, but these can probably be got for the price of an inspection. They are from 1997/1998 and have about 900 hours of service. They're all located at my base of Habsheim (LFGB) and I need to tidy the place up! I'm sure this can be shipped to anywhere, but you might want to consider the cost of doing so and if that makes it worth it Pretty much complete interior trim - panels, baggage bay, roof etc, including lights and oxygen fittings. RH forward carpet disposed of Fully articulating seats, and matching rear seats. Only 3 headrests though. One small burn mark on one of the rear seat squabs, elastic gone in the seat pockets, but otherwise excellent condition. Front seats have the mechanical (as opposed to the pneumatic) lumbar adjustments. Light brown velour Pair of leather trimmed yokes - minimal switches, fittings for map lights but no lights or retainers Miscellaneous control rods Fuel gauge senders and pickups Gauge clusters with gauges, one or two inop Annunciator panel KEA130/KI256/ASI/VSI/MP/Tach Circuit breaker panel with filters & relays Aux power socket with relays 115CuFt oxygen cylinder & regulator/valve (cylinder out of date) 3 charlie weights & bolts A few components that are subject to deeper inspection, as they got wet in the salt water: Main wheel assemblies with brakes Nose wheel assembly with trunnion Eaton retraction unit Electric fuel pump and gascolator/fuel tap All avionics/aerials are with Avionik Straubing who can certify as required Make offer for any (or even better the whole lot!), via pm