FS: RV-8 airplane

Sorry Karl,

I know it is a hard thing to do.

Here's a couples links. Kinda shows what's involved.

SPECIAL AIRWOTTHINESS CERTIFICATE ------------ 09/ 13/ 00 LYCOMING ENGINE- 0-360 A1A 180 HP. ENGINE HAS 500 HOURS AS OF 2/22/10

OIL AND FILTER HAS BEEN CHANGED EACH 25 HRS. WITH PHILLIPS 20 W-50 OIL AND

PLANE HAS NEAR NEW MICHELIN TIRES

I CRUISE AT 150 KNTS

HOSES

NEW FLEXIBLE IN 2009

OIL, GASOLINE, INSTRUMENT LINES

OIL COOLER, FUEL PUMP, AND CARBURATOR

RADIOS GMA 340 AUDIO PANEL

GNS 430 GPS

GTX 327 TRANSPONDER

MX 20 MFD

GI 106 NAV. INDICATOR

ALTITUDE HOLD AUTO PILOT

CARUS 3000 V. STERILIZER

STEC C 1261-17-14 PITCH COMPUTER

STEC 0107-5 PS PITCH SERVO

STEC 0111 TRANSDUCER

GARMIN 3-4-56 GPS ANTENNA

CI-122 COMM. ANTENNA

IMC INSTRUMENTS

SENSENICH AIRCRAFT PROPELLER

PROPELLER MODEL- 72M859-1-83

PROPELLER SERIAL NUMBER - 32942

Pics can be emailed if you're interested.

Karl

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I visited a friend of mine who's the engineering manager for an aircraft sheet metal company at Aurora airport (now _there's_ metalworking! They repair aircraft and make parts for the Sikorsky S-64, which Sikorsky no longer supports. They've been making sheet metal and structural parts for years; they're just about to get some of the flying surfaces ATC'd

-- so they're doing some Really Serious work there. And it's a _little place_).

You have to drive right by Van's on the way in, so I stopped by to see if I could cadge a tour, or at least a peek at the production floor. I couldn't, but the receptionist did inflict me on one of their sales guys and him on me. We were obviously from different planets -- he couldn't imagine anyone wanting to build model airplanes when they could just as well build full scale, while any time I want to fly full scale I contemplate how often I crash models and the urge passes.

They do cool stuff there, though.

Dang Tim, with your interest in aviation and a good technical background, I was about to ask you if you were interested in buying my Safari Kit Helicopter. Reading your post above, my probability estimator says my expected gain here is pretty low....

Stu

Did he loose his medical or did he decide he wasn't alert enough to continue flying?

If the former, that is sad, if the later it is still sad but he did the right thing and you will have him with you longer. Your dad has a strong will to complete such a project. If that will was passed off to you, you will go do well for yourself.

Wes

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You should put up in: rec.aviation.homebuilt That's sad. Karl

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Karl Check rec.aviation if your not monitoring it. You got a couple suggestions. Karl

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Thanks, I hadn't followed my post.