snowds Posted April 29, 2021 Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 Hello MS'ers. I am reluctantly selling my 1981 M20K 305 Rocket. It was a fantastic plane for 18 years when our kids were small (and I was small-er), but alas, they've grown and so have our space and weight requirements. Here are the specs: TT: 4,900 SMOH: 300 (Zephyr) Annual and IFR expire May 2022 (both being completed this coming week) At 10K feet, you'll enjoy around 200kts TAS, at FL180, you'll get around 218kts TAS. Fully coupled GPS steering auto-pilot will fly the approach for you (including LPV), and fly the missed approach and hold. Lynx NGT9000 ADS-B IN/OUT provides weather and traffic to your PFD and your mobile devices. Long range fuel tanks hold a total of 105 gallons. Going too fast? No problem, throw out the speed brakes, and descend at 2,000+ ft/min. Fully feathering prop gives a glide ratio of 17:1: at 15K feet AGL, glide for ~45 miles. Twin batteries and twin alternators provide electrical backup. No vacuum instruments, everything is electrical, so no worries about vacuum failures. Aspen Avionics Evolution 1000 with weather/traffic Garmin GNS-430 WAAS GPS and Nav/Com Lynx NGT9000 Transponder with ADS-B In/Out Garmin SL-30 Nav/Com King 200 Autopilot Mid-Continent Backup Artificial Horizon w/ internal backup battery WX-1000E Strike Finder Fuel totalizer JPI EDM 700 Engine monitor Artex 406 MHz ELT coupled to WAAS GPS Backup alternator with automatic switching Twin batteries Electrical hot-prop deicing LED landing light LED rear strobe and position light New interior plastic on pilot panel and right rear passenger panel Gross weight increase STC to 3,200 Monroy long-range fuel tanks, resealed in 2013 by Wet Wingologists Precise-Flight Speedbrakes Paint 6/10, some areas wearing through to metal Interior 8/10 NMDH, just usual hanger dings, complete logs back to day 1 Asking $154,000 Contact me through Trade-A-Plane, or at snowds@yahoo.com (no sell side brokers please) Thanks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIm20c Posted April 29, 2021 Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 @MediumSpeedAluminumTubing was trying to contact you last week, not sure if he made contact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowds Posted April 29, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 30 minutes ago, MIm20c said: @MediumSpeedAluminumTubing was trying to contact you last week, not sure if he made contact. Hmm, I'm not sure, a lot of people reach out from the trade a plane ad. I'm definitely not hiding! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aviatoreb Posted April 29, 2021 Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 Hi Snowds. Good luck on whatever you get. I went through the same thing about 7 or 8 years ago as our kids were getting bigger. And I was thinking of a new airplane, but taking a while to do anything about it. Then eventually, we got to the other side. 2 of them all grown up and moved away, and 3rd going to college soon, and soon to be empty nest back to the Mooney rocket is the perfect plane for going to visit them all. E 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediumSpeedAluminumTubing Posted April 29, 2021 Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 Just sent a PM! Does anyone know if the backseats are removable on this plane or if there is an STC to upgrade to folding seats? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsxrpilot Posted April 29, 2021 Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 22 minutes ago, MediumSpeedAluminumTubing said: Just sent a PM! Does anyone know if the backseats are removable on this plane or if there is an STC to upgrade to folding seats? There's no such STC but you could retrofit the interior out of a later model K... if you can find one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aviatoreb Posted April 29, 2021 Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 25 minutes ago, MediumSpeedAluminumTubing said: Just sent a PM! Does anyone know if the backseats are removable on this plane or if there is an STC to upgrade to folding seats? I have seen people with the bench seat make a mod by various means to fold down. Check out this thread doing a mod like that would be the cheapest way - but it won't lay flat so you won't get the supreme space of the later models where you get a flat floor. I have an intermediate mod - my seats are two separate buckets and the rear part removes quickly by a release, and so that also leaves me a flat floor. But if I had this airplane I would simply do the fold down rear seat thing pictures in the link I just gave. Otherwise rockets are fantastico! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aviatoreb Posted April 29, 2021 Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 2 minutes ago, gsxrpilot said: There's no such STC but you could retrofit the interior out of a later model K... if you can find one. That is certainly the A+ solution but what I linked is the cheaper and pretty good solution. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediumSpeedAluminumTubing Posted April 29, 2021 Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 Thanks for the help! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowds Posted April 30, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2021 17 hours ago, MediumSpeedAluminumTubing said: Thanks for the help! We recently took out the back seat to replace the plastic side walls. It took around 20 min. Would have left it that way had I not had the image of my kids standing there with there teddy bears ready to go on a trip but having nowhere to sit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aviatoreb Posted April 30, 2021 Report Share Posted April 30, 2021 1 minute ago, snowds said: We recently took out the back seat to replace the plastic side walls. It took around 20 min. Would have left it that way had I not had the image of my kids standing there with there teddy bears ready to go on a trip but having nowhere to sit. Yeah - ain't that the case. I mean if little kids weren't so-cute bad enough - the teddy bears are just too much! I'll do anything for a little kid with a teddy bear. :-) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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