Grumman AA1 - Cost to Own

[@cdbtheclaw]

You always can just say you fly a Grumman and people will picture you in a Hellcat. Would be cruel to break their imagination wouldn't it?

[@carlweverson1302]

I’d think of the Grumman goose.

[@trm7782]

I love aviation and all, but this man could make videos about paint drying and I would still watch them multiple times Great channel Great video

[@caseruels1924]

Former AA-1B owner here. This clip is pretty spot on. You can keep it on the ramp to keep costs down if you have decent year round weather and good covers. A little faster than most production 2 seaters. Faster approach speeds too. Super responsive to control inputs. If one has the 150-160hp motor, I’d imagine you’d climb like no other 2 seater, but will have to make plenty of gas stops on your trips.

[@joningalls4958]

I love me some Grummans. I just so happen to be wearing my snazzy, compete walk around, GA-7 sweatshirt as I watch this!

[@CompleteWalkaround]

And a channel member. You're keeping me afloat my friend

[@joningalls4958]

@@CompleteWalkaround it’s all selfish. I’ll never afford a 330LT, so I’ll need to bum a ride off yours.

[@CompleteWalkaround]

@@joningalls4958 deal

[@TheSignatureGamer5]

It's worth mentioning that this airplane was designed by the late Jim Bede. The tubular spar and glued wing skins can still be found on his kitplanes (BD-4, BD-6, BD-17L)!

[@Kefuddle]

I part owned a Cheetah for a few years. I loved flying it compared to the 150s and PA28s that I trained on. A superb aircraft.

[@onrivertime]

I'll consider this a good sign! I just bought a Grumman AA1A last week (red, almost exactly like one of the illustrations). Sweet flying airplane, and it's kind of neat to say "Grumman" when calling the CTAF or tower. Thanks for another great walkaround video. I really look forward to these.

[@charleswithey8277]

You’ll enjoy it

[@brettgoldsmith9971]

Congrats!

[@stewartw.9151]

All it needs to get really, really great is an 0-320 Lyc and aux fuel tanks in the wings doubling fuel capacity - well worth doing.

[@dojoswitzer]

Thanks! Wish you would also do this for the AA5. It’s on the top of my wish list. I just saw one listed for sale.

[@CompleteWalkaround]

Wow, thanks Doug, Thanks very generous! AA5 is definitely on my list. An AA5 just moved int at my airport tied down next to the 172 I fly and I've met the owner a couple of times now. That should help my tiger process 👍

[@RossLeavitt]

This video was released just too late; I bought an AA-1B last week and it will be delivered next week. I can’t wait!

[@CascadiaAviation]

Congratulations

[@SnappyWasHere]

I’m glad you make us wait for one video a week. So many new channels do several a week then run out of content by the time they are popular. I’m sticking around for a 747-8. I bet the hourly cost on them is high. 😂😂

[@mrmowersemporium]

Please don’t stop.

[@CompleteWalkaround]

I won't. Thanks very much

[@MisterScott7]

Your videos are perfect length, informative, and have the right blend of humor 😂 Any chance we get an AA5 Tiger Cost to Own video in the future?

[@stewartw.9151]

Bought my 1972 AA1A in 1977, flew it for about 1600 hrs until 1996 when I sold it. Of all the single-engine light aircraft it is the best flying aircraft in almost all ways - faster, ultra responsive to the controls, strong (there has never been an inflight structural failure of any AA1 or AA5) and has superb visiblity. The only downside is that it is a runner on takeoff at high elevations or density altitudes and when heavily loaded to max So what is to be done? Simple, put an 0-320 or 0-360 Lycoming up front, add extra tubular tanks in the wings to grab back the range and more! Now you have a little fighter-plane that climbs like a homesick angel, gets off the ground so easily and cruises at speeds only matched by allegedly faster aircraft! It transforms the aircraft in every way and the only reason American Aviation and Grumman-American did not build it this way is that they saw a ready made opportunity and targeted the training market which was a booming market in the 1970s with the GI Bill offering flight-training subsidies to vets!! So it had to have an economical motor and did not need range!

[@muhannad123]

Awesome video. More Grumman AA's please!

[@l.w.7432]

Hi! Great Video, watched all of them 😁 Can you do one about Gliders (Sailplanes)? Would be great! PS get well soon 😉

[@q.2808]

Yeah gliders would be nice!!

[@docjeffry]

I own one. Very fun to fly.

[@emfournet]

Complete walkaround, you Complete Doll, you listened to my recommendation, I wish I could double subscribe!

[@robertrussell1604]

More more more! Keep them coming!

[@taktuscat4250]

Good video mate :)

[@RichEdwards]

I got my private ticket in a Cheetah. Great plane. You could pull the canopy open partially in flight and pretend to be a fighter pilot. Had to watch the nose wheel shimmy with that cantilevered setup up front and steering with differential braking takes a minute to get used to. But a great platform and fun to fly.

[@garymiller5624]

The nose wheel shimmy is easy to address with a fish scale and tighten the bellows washer to 15psi if I remember correctly. I suspect new washers can be procured as they do lose their tension over a period of adjustment.

[@amadern]

Another great and pleasant video! Thanks

[@tomrodgers6629]

I got my license in a Cheetah. From time to time I check FAA records to see where she lives. I liked that little plane.

[@garretthuman5892]

Honestly I'm hoping to buy am AA5 in a couple of years for my work commute

[@somerandombetafish7866]

I just found your content and I love it! I'd recommend a video on the Lake Buccaneer, a rather interesting amphibian aircraft. Keep up the great work!

[@ewhays]

I like the waterfowl Grummans. Duck, Widgeon, Goose, Albatross, etc... they have their own majesty. Plus Hemisphere Dancer , need I say more.

[@jordansamson6071]

Now do a 1931 zeppelin

[@Corey_Brandt]

I learned to fly in a Grumman Yankee!

[@janzenandrew]

Time for a AA-5B Tiger review!

[@jretta91]

You should put all this well researched data into a shareable spreadsheet for all the planes you've done.

[@OnceUponAPipe]

excellent idea!

[@murphinator5586]

About about the T-6A Texan II? It’s a beautiful airplane. The Air Force uses it as a trainer

[@MightyP13]

Do these need to be in a hangar, or are they usually out on the ramp with all the 150s? That's really the only difference in cost it seems.

[@CompleteWalkaround]

They do as much as a 150 does I would say

[@andrewvandergrift1764]

Awesome Video!!! Could you do a video on a crop dusting aircraft like the AT-502/ AT-802?

[@Elmm497]

what about a "Cost to own a BN-2 Islander"

[@charleswithey8277]

Learned to fly in one of these turds. Will take a full grown man, half an instructor, and 3/8 tank of fuel with ease. Not that you’d have any idea about the fuel with those whacky sight gauges and tanks you can’t really sump. I miss that thing, the hobo rv.

[@duncanstewart6066]

I flew one of these out of VNY on a 85F day with a buddy a few years ago. Scary. Love the AA-5’s though.

[@anac3652]

I wouldnt take a 150 over my Grumman any day. Lots of fun to fly

[@TrainSounds]

The traveler could’ve been named the leopard.

[@bodenwhitmore7699]

Would love to see a video on the Velocity aircraft, any of them really, although my dream is to build a V-Twin. That or the Zenith 750 Cruzer

[@CompleteWalkaround]

I've been talking to some canard folks lately. We're going to be seeing some canards on here soon.

[@queeny5613]

Cool

[@redjboy]

The wings are interchangeable?!

[@christalbert722]

From what I've read- early versions, the wing was symmetrical and identical left to right- they were interchangeable. Same for the rudder and elevators- all 3 were identical and interchangeable. This was to reduce construction costs and speed up manufacture. The symmetrical wing gave a faster cruise speed but had harsher stall characteristics. On the later AA-1b models the wing used a different airfoil, no longer symmetrical- it lost some speed but had a more forgiving stall. A lot of AA1s have been upgraded with a bigger O320 engine, 150/160hp rather than 108. If you have an early one with the "fast" wing and an upgraded engine, it's more like a 172 in performance (though still 2 seat of course). That's sort of my wish-list plane :)

[@WilliamWhitneyChristmasMD]

Piper Colt, please!

[@matthewgulas9166]

Any chance the store will open back up?

[@CompleteWalkaround]

Yes very likely. The response from the closing announcement was largely "what store?". It's going to be bigger and better

[@matthewgulas9166]

@@CompleteWalkaround That’s great! Your 65% polyester shirts are something that most don’t offer. I will ask that you put a sizing guide out for the shirts. Love the “I’m a bit high” shirt and wish I saw the video about the closing sooner.

[@JoeCnNd]

This should be available for sport pilot.

[@awacsbandog8914]

too bad the Shop closed, I'd love to have a cheetah/tiger shirt in that style

[@charlesdreadful5997]

Don't forget about those sweet Grumman canoes.

[@s0rc3]

And mail trucks!

[@felixmccall4606]

Any chance you could look at a 90 series king air?

[@HyroAUS]

early exited to watch!

[@aadvantagegold5220]

So a cooler, low-wing C150. Got it.

[@daleyoung87]

No. Much better

[@yavoz.]

Would it be possible to ask for a BD4c video?

[@spacewolfjr]

Every time I hear Wildcat I hear it in Eli Cash's (Owen Wilson's) voice from The Royal Tenenbaums when he's on drugs... wiiiild cat ... we're not friends until you look it up!

[@Eodasa05]

how about the Bearcat or Tigercat

[@bobromasr1711]

The company was known as Grumman American. I'm not sure if it's the same company as Grumman which makes military aircraft. They were located in Savannha Georgia. The company is now defunct. I learned to fly in a Yankee and loved it.

[@ericfrost4768]

meow indeed 😂

[@TedHough68]

I wonder how the cost of this would compare to a Piper Archer. Any chance we can get an Archer walkaround sometime? :)

[@CompleteWalkaround]

Eventually. Pretty close to Cherokee 180 which I have. My first CtO

[@TedHough68]

@@CompleteWalkaround Yey! I did watch the 180 and 235 videos and they had me curious

[@stevemasterson7776]

"DANGER ZONE!!!" LULZ

[@MLMLML000]

0:51 meeeooww

[@andrewemerson6893]

Way to power through, allergies suck!

[@ussrvodka4663]

Hi

[@CompleteWalkaround]

Hello

[@Ispeedymg]

Planes! Algorithm! Planessssssssss ✈️

[@HyroAUS]

can you do the rv14 next?

[@CompleteWalkaround]

RV-14 is there. Check the back catalog

[@HyroAUS]

@@CompleteWalkaround oh sweet will have a look thanks and get well 😅

[@joellaplant5837]

"Meeeooow😏"

[@jakegreenberg9357]

You sound sick. I hope you feel better & make some more videos. Maybe try some helicopter videos?

[@dojoswitzer]

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[@brettgoldsmith9971]

No contest here. Tomcat is best cat

[@roycealvarez2812]

***meow***

[@More_Row]

No I want to have the option to buy one of these. But not buy it

[@scronk4486]

Odds we get a GA7 video?

[@ehuntley83]

Yes, without a doubt, the coolest Grumman is the F-14. Full stop. End of. It’s testosterone with wings, and forever enshrined in our hearts because of Top Gun. I don’t care about advances in tech and so on. That thing just had swagger. And those sweeping wings... 🤌😰🔥