380 mile commute. What is the best Mooney for $125,000 purchase price?

By Willie
September 12, 2020 in General Mooney Talk

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Willie

Posted September 25, 2020

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Posted September 25, 2020

5 hours ago, Jourdan Urbach said:

Panel upgrade is the least of that TAP plane's problems. New partner as of a few years ago was a Kennedy fellow, posted here if I recall. Might be worth reaching out to him. As I understand from speaking with the broker, the plane has barely flown since he joined, and the original owner (I forget her name) barely flew it before that either.

Quite nice P&I, likely not much corrosion due to texas hangaring, but 50k minimum in the panel and God only knows what lies firewall forward.

The missiles on controller ... well, the red and white one Dave Slivka (good guy, go-to for MU2s) has been trying to get rid of since late 2019, and the blue and white one had a brutal collision with a stone mailbox before being re-built by Don Maxwell. Look at the thread on here for pictures. You'll need to decide if you're ok with that.

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Thank you. I’ll do some more digging around.

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kortopates

September 15, 2020

Indeed- being sensitive to your earlier post and being clear its not directed to the OP - but show me one thread at 5 pages or more than EVER stuck to the original point of the thread. Sorry, but ALL

donkaye

September 12, 2020

This is not what you want to hear, but for consistency of dispatch your choice of J would be out of the question for me on the route. I like feeling good when I arrive at my destination and able to f

Ragsf15e

September 12, 2020

If you’re adding up exact fuel prices and round trip costs to compare between SWA and a GA airplane, you’ll be very disappointed with GA in the long run. You won’t beat the airline on cost. You buy