Mooney Gear Up N195ER

[N222VS]

[N222VS]

I always get a knot in my stomach when I see something like this , I guess there are the ones that have & the ones that are going to!!

I'd say that this will be a bargain for someone to buy!!!

[Rwsavory]

What's the story?

[RocketAviator]

Does the tail say Emery Riddle? I have empathy!

[N222VS]

From what I've been told , which is second hand. On climb out pilot smelled smoke, shut engine down & put it down @ the end of the runway then bounced hard & slid through the fence at the end of the runway through the mud. All with the gear up.

[TWinter]

I had the wrong school in mind..My bad.

[aviatoreb]

That's aN embry riddle tail number and paint job. She will fly proudly again. Hang in there sir.

[orionflt]

Ouch, where did this happen?

[orionflt]

Not owned by emery riddle any more.

[N222VS]

It's been based @ Dayton , TN 2A0 for about 4years. I guess Embry Riddle didn't remove their name when it was sold. I'd say she will be parted out, I've heard the airframe is 11,000 hrs. I was out shooting approaches & snapped the pics before I left the airport. I figured someone on here might pick it up from the insurance for a deal. Probably a good parts donor!

[kerry]

Only 11,000 hrs.  It's airframe is close to just being broken in. Literally.

[Wakeup]

Someone said its based out of Dayton,Tn. Is this where it happened?

[DS1980]

Didn't the Mooney engineers say the airframe, though not life limited, was good for something like 41,000 hours?

[aviatoreb]

I am not sure if it was this plane or one of the sister ER Mooney 201's I saw om controller when I was shopping for Mooneys about 5 years ago.  It especially caught my eye since at the time I owned N805ER, a former Embry-Riddle Diamond DA40.  One cool thing about flying around with an ER tail number is that your airplane is an alumnae of a well known aviation school - wherever I went people would come up and say they went to ER.  I even - more than once - had ATC tell me that they went to ER and one even told me that she had flown my airplane.

[KSMooniac]

Off topic, but I think this is a funny and somewhat accurate representation of the ER experience. :-P

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[Marauder]

Off topic, but I think this is a funny and somewhat accurate representation of the ER experience. :-P

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I think they are just getting prepared for their career in a cockpit...

[fantom]

That sure looks like Parker in the upper left....

 

Must have been on a volunteer exchange program from Baylor.

[aviatoreb]

I think they are just getting prepared for their career in a cockpit...

 

I think thats all the guys over at my at local ARTCC Boston Center!…Boston Center, Mooney N10933 with you, level FL-zero.

[scottfromiowa]

Ummmm ya. Can we have the one when the girlfriends visited...instead?

[DrBill]

My younger son graduated from ERAU. He now is a captain for Piedmont Airlines. He has stories of his schooling (or lack thereof) like the time he broke his arm falling from a roof of a house when trying to go to the bathroom (so I'm told). I know he had a GREAT time there by the length of time it took him to graduate.

But he is now doing what he loves to do and I'm proud of him.

BILL

[Hank]

I just flew on Piedmont last month. Must have been USAir Express.

[jetdriven]

The piedmont now is a regional carrier for US Airways. They fly dash 8s.

[Blackhawk]

Airplane is in a salvage yard. It may fly again, but I doubt it.

As for those who have and those who are going to, while I applaud pilots for being pessimists there is no excuse for doing a gear up landing in a Mooney if you are flying the correct approach speeds. About the only way to hit the correct Vref is to lower the gear.