Mooney Type Certificate for Sale?

[Matt Hamel]

On 5/6/2025 at 6:18 PM, Kevin Harberg said:

So all of the prints are at the Smithsonian and they are available.  The Mites original cockpit and firewall forward is all metal. The Fred Quarles Estate and/or the Smithsonian may have the current drawings for the metal fuselage (headrest to tail cone). The certified M-18 fuselage section aft of cockpit were wood. The wing was wood and the vertical and horizontal stabs have wooden spars. Here's a photo of the updated M-18 rear metal fuselage attached to the original metal tubing cockpit and motor mount.

 

Where could the plans be found?

[EricJ]

A number of Mites were built as experimentals from drawings, so those drawings existed somewhere.   In experimental category there shouldn't be any barrier to converting the wings to metal, or however much of the airplane you want to convert.   The FAA would have to be convinced it is safe in order to get an airworthiness certificate in experimental category, but that should be doable.  

 

[Kevin Harberg]

4 hours ago, Matt Hamel said:

Where could the plans be found?

TravisM has a set of M-18x plans for sale here in Mooney Space in the Mooney Mite Forum.