Just bought my first plane 66 m20c

[Jackhammond21]

Like the title say's i just bought my first plane, 1966 m20c project

having to rebuild the panel with new avionics but gives me time to finish getting my PPL.

so ill be in the parts forum alot but anyways heres some photos of the craft

 

Edited March 22, 2021 by Jackhammond21
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[Hank]

Congratulations, Jack! Let the fun begin.

An easier way to share pictures is to drag them below, or click on "Add Files" and choose the photo. That way we don't have to download pictures of your plane to see them . . . .

[TGreen]

Congratulations and welcome!

[MinneMooney]

Welcome aboard. I’ve owned my ‘65 M20C for just over 2 years. I’ve learned a tremendous amount of information by spending time on this blog. I haven’t had any questions that I haven’t been able to find the answers by searching here.

[MooneyMitch]

Welcome Jack....... congratulations!

Lots of quality help and terrific information available on our MS!

Looking forward to your progress.  Your Mooney is beautiful!! 

[Mcstealth]

Congratulations and welcome. 

Please tell us why you choose Mooney, and why this particular C model?

David

 

[Hank]

4 minutes ago, Mcstealth said:

Congratulations and welcome. 

Please tell us why you choose Mooney, and why this particular C model?

David

 

Because Cs are great??? The best bang for the buck in all of certified General Aviation?

[Mcstealth]

The Secrets Out!!!!

[Jackhammond21]

48 minutes ago, Mcstealth said:

Congratulations and welcome. 

Please tell us why you choose Mooney, and why this particular C model?

David

 

well out of 172/pa-28/super vikings

the m20c is the best over all value, better speed, gph, manual landing gear, retains value longer and low op cost

This mooney was just too amazing of a deal to pass up, speed mods, fresh smoh on prop n engine newer interior, new sealed tanks, ect

missing avionics is going to be costly but also allow's me to build the panel how i would like it.

enabled me to buy this one at a super super steal for less than the cost of brace's for a kid

 

[Seth]

Congratulations and welcome to the Mooney family.

-Seth

[carusoam]

Welcome aboard Jack!

An M20C is a perfect first plane!

They also make pretty good forever-planes... if you can see that far into the future...

Best regards,

-a-

[Jocbay]

Welcome.  I'm also a new owner, early J model, and have a legacy panel that I will be upgrading in the near(ish) future. I see you have gutted the panel.  

What are your plans for all that cash and more importantly, how have you decided on what to install?

Good luck finishing up your ppl and with the panel upgrade.  jb

 

[Jackhammond21]

Update, Plan for now is to get the mooney back to mass with me where it will get a panel upgrade,

so for now im buying basic setup to get the plane flyable to make the trip home then will be reselling the avionics and upgrading 

so far this is what ive bought as of today and pricing bettween ebay, barnstromers and here

elt-90 $40

grimes wing tip nav lights $159

m20c stainless hardware kit $51

Artificial horizon $128

Vertical speed $66

Narco at50A and ar-850 $58

Suction gauge $40

TC100 rate of turn $100

R.C. Allen RCA11A-8 Directional gyro $65

aerosonic Altimiter ecoder $121

Tach m20c $50

Airspeed $74

m20c cluster $320

stc 50 head unit $645

fuel gph kit $73

KMA24 audio panel $119

Pair of yoke's $234

 

still have to get fuel pressure/mainifold gauge, battery, radio/com/nav plus anything else i might be forgetting  

building the panel here and pre wiring it with a quick connector for easy installation and removal of the panel in the future 

and made a m20c bible anything and everything to do with the plane its in there

 

[carusoam]

Jack has great documentation skills...

Very helpful for Old Machine ownership...

Best regards,

-a-

[Jackhammond21]

update 4/6/2021

 

avionics are now all here, basic setup to get the plane flown back here from houston, 

for the true panel upgrade 

thank you to everyone on this forum for help getting the equipment

do have double of acouple items (package deals i couldnt pass up)

hopefully next update will be avionics installed and offical first start with run up 

[0TreeLemur]

That airspeed indicator has a white arc for a different aircraft.   Top of white arc for a 66C should be at 100 mph.  Yellow arc looks ok.   Good luck.

[carusoam]

A reminder that a good instrument shop can refinish the face of good instruments...

For not a lot of dough...

Best regards,

-a-

[Hank]

11 minutes ago, 0TreeLemur said:

That airspeed indicator has a white arc for a different aircraft.   Top of white arc for a 66C should be at 100 mph.  Yellow arc looks ok.   Good luck.

Bottom of the white arc is also too fast, looks to be 65-ish mph. The Owners Manual for my C says to pull back on the yoke to liftoff when airspeed is 65-75 mph, which is well above Takeoff Flap stall speed, to say nothing of Full Flap stall speed . . . .