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Starting a thread of known Mooney Rentals in the US. The question gets asked often enough mostly for currency, insurance, and transition reasons and mostly by new members to Mooneyspace, to warrant a thread. 

I will start. Here along with other nice planes, is a  nicely equipped, 2000 M20R

Floris Aviation in Midland, Tx

http://www.florisflightservices.com/home.html

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1 hour ago, jlunseth said:

Thunderbird Aviation has one at Flying Cloud that they have rented off and on.  Its a J. It has depended on whether they have sufficient demand to justify the maintenance and operating cost. You would have to ask though.  

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M20E in Ocala, FL (I was thinking of renting this one once)  http://www.usflighttraining.com/aircraft.html

M20K 231 near London, UK (spent some time inside this one) https://www.eglk.co.uk/our-fleet

M20F Exec north of England, UK (used for rent but now sold) http://www.sandtoft-airfield.com/rental.html

Finding a Mooney for rent and current instructor for checkout is like hens teeth :)

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52 minutes ago, neilpilot said:

Is that the replacement for N526AM?  http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2016/09/mooney-m20j-fatal-accident-occurred.html

 

They lost a second M20J off the coast of NJ last year as well.  I tried to rent one for my transition training and they did not actually have one available in November.

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1 hour ago, Ibra said:

M20E in Ocala, FL (I was thinking of renting this one once)  http://www.usflighttraining.com/aircraft.html

M20K 231 near London, UK (spent some time inside this one) https://www.eglk.co.uk/our-fleet

M20F Exec north of England, UK (used for rent but now sold) http://www.sandtoft-airfield.com/rental.html

Finding a Mooney for rent and current instructor for checkout is like hens teeth :)

Alright!!!! Hence the "USA and Beyond" title. Thank you @Ibra

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15 hours ago, toto said:

Wow, that's a pretty impressive rental fleet. Wonder if these are all leasebacks?

 There is a lot of money in Midland and Odessa Texas area when oil production is going well. I am sure that is part of the reason they have such a nice fleet.

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13 minutes ago, Mcstealth said:

Interesting write up by them. Describes the J as an advanced trainer 

Actually, that makes sense.  Back in the late 80s/early 90s, when the M20J MSE was released, they also had a stripped down version for flight schools for Instrument/Commercial training.  It was the M20J AT- for Advanced Trainer.

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10 hours ago, Andy95W said:

Back in the late 80s/early 90s, when the M20J MSE was released, they also had a stripped down version for flight schools for Instrument/Commercial training.  It was the M20J AT- for Advanced Trainer

Good to know, I guess that one has dual foot brakes :)

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With reference to ".. and beyond" in the thread's title enclosed an opportunity in Germany:
"Westflug Aachen" located at EDKA has two M20J for rent. Aachen is situated at the western border of Germany right next to Netherlands and Belgium.

D-EOWS was recently repainted and (afaik) received an avionics upgrade including EDM engine monitor and G5 instruments (the latter maybe under works).
The images shown on the website are outdated and do not reflect the recent upgrades:
http://www.westflug.de/index.php/flugzeugpark/mooney-m20-j

D-EMOH
http://www.westflug.de/index.php/flugzeugpark/d-emoh

Considering the fact that the associated flight school "Westflug Flight Training" is re-establishing IR training, at least one of the aircraft (if not both) are IR certified.
Checkout is performed by one of the flight instructors. I'm aware of at least three of them being very skilled at Mooney specific training (including short-field because EDKA only had a 520m/1710ft runway until this summer). The boss of "Westflug" is a former German acrobatics-champion in the unlimited class.
(Besides the aforementioned Mooneys and other typical GA aircraft they also operate one or two Extra 330LX. If you are interested you could receive introductory acrobatic training or UPRT training on Extra aircraft as well... http://www.extrabatics.de)

Best,
Matthias

Disclaimer: I made my PPL and received my Mooney training at this flight school. 

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32 minutes ago, MatthiasArnold said:

With reference to ".. and beyond" in the thread's title enclosed an opportunity in Germany:
"Westflug Aachen" located at EDKA has two M20J for rent. Aachen is situated at the western border of Germany right next to Netherlands and Belgium.

D-EOWS was recently repainted and (afaik) received an avionics upgrade including EDM engine monitor and G5 instruments (the latter maybe under works).
The images shown on the website are outdated and do not reflect the recent upgrades:
http://www.westflug.de/index.php/flugzeugpark/mooney-m20-j

D-EMOH
http://www.westflug.de/index.php/flugzeugpark/d-emoh

Considering the fact that the associated flight school "Westflug Flight Training" is re-establishing IR training, at least one of the aircraft (if not both) are IR certified.
Checkout is performed by one of the flight instructors. I'm aware of at least three of them being very skilled at Mooney specific training (including short-field because EDKA only had a 520m/1710ft runway until this summer). The boss of "Westflug" is a former German acrobatics-champion in the unlimited class.
(Besides the aforementioned Mooneys and other typical GA aircraft they also operate one or two Extra 330LX. If you are interested you could receive introductory acrobatic training or UPRT training on Extra aircraft as well... http://www.extrabatics.de)

Best,
Matthias

Disclaimer: I made my PPL and received my Mooney training at this flight school. 

WOW! Great to know, and thank you for the write up. Appreciate it. 

 

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On 3/24/2020 at 5:19 PM, jlunseth said:

Thunderbird Aviation has one at Flying Cloud that they have rented off and on.  Its a J. It has depended on whether they have sufficient demand to justify the maintenance and operating cost. You would have to ask though.  

And insurance. Putting on leaseback could add $5,000/yr. 

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