Will it start? - Barn Find Bonanza sits Hangered for 34 years!

Check out this 1957 BE35H found covered in a hanger for the last 34 years. Last annual in 1988. Check out this first video by Asylum Air!
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[@mattgreven7615]

I've never seen the "mouse guards" before--they certainly changed the fate of that Bonanza!

[@jwoodyr1]

Me neither but they're brilliant! It seems they worked perfectly.

[@tomgaddis5020]

Farmers been using the sheet metal rodent guards for years around combines

[@wolfgagger]

an old trick!

[@josephliptak]

Beautiful Bonanza. Love the paint schemes they used from an era gone by.

[@nikolatesla5553]

That's a beautiful aircraft. Given how long it has been sitting, I expected a mess. But instead it looks like a well maintained classic car. The interior looks fantastic. Some of those V-tails included control surfaces that were made with magnesium instead of aluminum and they are notorious for oxidization.

[@bertram-raven]

Magnesium-alloy oxidation is usually very easy to spot. Aluminium oxidation, however, is a killer and is notoriously difficult to see. Instead of forming an even coating of aluminium-oxide, the 'rust' goes into the metal and snakes around creating oxide tunnels and making the material friable. Once aluminium has that 'cancer' it cannot be repaired. This is the reason most aluminium objects are coated with plastic - it oxidises far too easily. Aluminium used for food and drinks cans is coated in plastic to stop aluminium leeching into the food product; aluminium is very bad for the brain, causing Alzheimer's like damage! This does not mean I am telling you to get rid of any aluminium pots and pans you have around the house, but maybe replace them over time. As for aircraft, after checking any aluminium is solid it is wise to coat it everywhere - simple lacquer spray out of sight and primed and painted outside; check the coating for damage regularly and touch up and flaking immediately.

[@nikolatesla5553]

@@bertram-raven I am certainly not an expert on metals. That said, I've seen more than a few of those ruddervators that are not repairable due to magnesium oxidation. You are right that is easy to spot. That specific Bonanza looks so damn good from the video I'd be surprised it would have that issue.

[@kentcook5093]

The ruddervators on on the V tails are magnesium and as I understand it have to be, and can not be skinned in aluminum. Those on 33D are in near perfect condition.

[@wolfgagger]

@@kentcook5093 they absolutely can be reskinned in aluminium, not sure where you heard that, they just need replaced if they are corroded

[@fly-n-m9445]

@@wolfgagger I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but all V-tails are Magnesium, and as today can only be re-skinned in Magnesium. As per the maintenance manuals, only The model 33s, 36s,Barons and straight tails can be converted to aluminum.

[@Peter-ic7vj]

Beautiful color!!!!!

[@truthteller8459]

I personally never could be a pilot with my eyesight but if I could my three, by far, favorite airplanes I wish I could own myself are the Beechcraft V-Tail, and the Cessna 150 and 172 models. This Bonanza in this video is painted beautifully!

[@GlareAtEm]

Yes you could! Being a pilot requires good eyesight, BUT, the eyesight can be corrected! Talk to your local AME if you feel like chasing your dream.

[@steveanacorteswa3979]

Wow, one damn nice piece of Wichita, got to fly my friends V35 when it only had like 30 hours on it, when a GA 3 axis AP was new, after flying 70s 152s. that plexi was so clear, felt like sitting on a cloud.

[@flyingfortressrc1794]

That was great to see the old girl fire to life again

[@danielneuenschwander7381]

it is great to see that someone took the time and care to cover her with cloths/tarps & "vermin" wheel pants to save headaches later. Can't wait to see you get the airworthiness cert renewed and her back in the air! Great video!

[@scottmoseley5122]

Awesome find! Keep us posted!

[@TastierBackInThe80s]

Beautiful aircraft, and that green livery is perfect. Always loved the V-tails. Thanks for sharing.

[@Tom__L]

That cockpit is such a beauty… please keep it that way… 😍

[@Ux2_4u]

It looks amazing after sitting for 34 years. The paintjob is just amazing.

[@christopherbeddoe406]

What a beautiful plane. Nice to see her getting prepared to fly.

[@coldisle]

Wow…my God what a find. Just absolutely beautiful

[@MrDano3535]

That bonanza is exactly like mine!!! I mean right down to the same year model!!! A 1957 H35!! Awesome plane!!! I love my bonanza!!

[@AsylumAir]

Very cool!

[@DanRibar]

Excited for you. V35B is and always has been my favorite GA airplane. Congrats on the start.

[@tompurvis1261]

Nice work and no drawn out drama. Thanks for the video!

[@TheDonkeyBONE]

What a find! I'd love to hear the story that goes with it. Keep the videos coming!

[@bernardanderson3758]

Great to see this because last week there were two people working on a V-35 that’s been out of annual for 35 years and I’m looking forward to seeing you as well to getting this one in airworthy condition

[@officialbritishtaxpayer5609]

Great! Let's see this beauty get back into the air! Lots of things to check before you can do that but keep us posted!

[@TT99C5]

I love the attention to detail paid when that airplane was last put away. It paid off. Beautiful bird!

[@BenWeeksBonanzaPilot]

Good to see others resurrecting these old bonanzas. Can’t wait for the next one!

[@mattmeade8856]

Ben when will you be getting more videos out?

[@AsylumAir]

We have plans to get out to grab more content. Currently the plane is a 3 hour flight away from base. More to come soon!

[@BenWeeksBonanzaPilot]

@@mattmeade8856 have one in the works currently, but I’m slammed with finishing up school currently and not able to work on it. It will be worth the wait👍

[@jordanmartell8750]

Love this! That interior is epic! Looking forward to the brake fix piece of work on this bird.

[@a.n.7863]

Exterior designer - excellent Interior designer - cringe worthy

[@johnpxii]

This is awesome, please post updates! Great work!

[@thepurpleufo]

I would give this video 100 likes if that were possible. I love those old Bonanzas, and I hope you will put up more videos on what you do with this one. Thank you.

[@nigel900]

Beautiful. 👍🏻

[@rodanderson8490]

Of all the small airplanes I have flown the V-tail Bonanza remains my favorite. The one I flew was owned by the Army flying club at APG, Maryland. I made 4 engine out emergency landings (1 approach & 3 departures) in one weekend without scratching it. The 10 cent spring on the alternate air source inside the cowling was corroded and allowed a flap to gradually inhibit the airflow to the carburetor every time I used full power. Once back on the ground the engine appeared to work fine. An A&P mechanic at the Roanoke, VA airport FINALLY figured it out. It was an exciting adventure🥳

[@markjackson8302]

Nice. Great to see this come to life.

[@LeifDjurfeldt]

Oh man!!! my dream airplane!

[@BF-kn9ih]

"That's just about the finest smell in the world..."(George Lebay, 1978)

[@spencersizemore1212]

Beautiful machine hope she gets back in the air and brings more memories God speed and God bless

[@scpowered]

What a beautiful find!

[@BillR1951]

Excellent video. Thanks for sharing.

[@AsylumAir]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@dogfoodking]

Great aircraft... looking forward to seeing her go fast again.

[@gtr1952]

34 years and it started! Didn't even smoke! That's amazing! 8) --gary

[@thomasmitchell828]

This aircraft, like many others left to gather dust in hangers, barns and on tarmac were meant to be in the air. Kudos to those who make an effort to get them back into the sky.

[@493913507]

Looks like we stepped back in time, I am amazed that it started that easily,all in all they took great care of the plane...

[@carrisasteveinnes1596]

No Jimmy Hoffa in there, I noted.

[@informyourself4074]

Great - please keep posting

[@CherokeeFlyr]

Great video! I just cannot comprehend “pickling” the aircraft for that long. Years of hangar rent or does this person own the hangar? Just the thought of bringing this ship into airworthiness ($$$) gives me the chills.

[@paulciprus9582]

My mom.. dad and I went on many vacations in our Bonanzas back in the 70s and eighties...fantastic airplanes...

[@lorenzodunn3226]

Excellent film footage and sound. Great commentary.

[@AsylumAir]

Thanks for watching

[@samphillips8322]

What a nice find. You already know all the good things about the H model. It will be interesting to know how much work it will take to get her airworthy again. Sad to see one neglected like this but at least it was protected from rodent and weather damage.

[@bobmillerick300]

Beautiful aircraft, best of luck with it.

[@sactu1]

Remarkable condition. What a find!

[@bnelson313braveheart8]

What a beautiful classic Beachcraft!

[@jerryjohnson8268]

love the color

[@jwoodyr1]

Totally agree!

[@bobninemire5154]

Nice find !!

[@Acc0rd79]

It looks like it's in perfect condition!! I would love to own that bird. I own a 75 Beech Sierra and it's in amazing shape, also came from the midwest. If I needed a faster plane the Bonanza would be my first pick all day long! The exterior colors are just perfect, the interior could do with some updates but I'd be OK with that at the start! Just a perfectly preserved plane.

[@tinlizzie37]

A fine preserved '57 Bonanza S/N 5085. It sounds and looks like it would be worth getting air-worthy again. My Bonanza was a 1948 S/N 1325. I enjoyed it for twenty years, and found the Piper Comanche is quite similar in flight handling! Beech made a fine aircraft, when they made the Bonanza! Bob U.

[@retroj4634]

Great video!

[@AsylumAir]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@mrkhokhar4895]

Waoooo what a beautiful lovely plane love the console

[@chriscusick6890]

I bought my 1947 Bonanza at a small airport by Ankeny, Iowa. Aircraft in the midwest are well preserved. I love color and scheme on this 1957 Bonanza.

[@AsylumAir]

I recently flew a 1948 35A to Ankeny recently. Was a beautiful ride.

[@Suncast45]

First thing I thought --How old is the fuel in the tanks? She's a beautiful Bonanza!

[@tombuck]

What an awesome interior. There’s even a Beechcraft clothes hanger! 😁

[@AsylumAir]

I thought the Beech hanger was awesome too. Wonder where that came from :D

[@bernardanderson3758]

It looks beautiful

[@EMJ31]

Ohhh, that all looks so familiar! I used to own a share of a ‘54 E-35, and that panel is very similar (except for the green)! The WWII surplus Sperry attitude and directional gyros! The lead owner of our group and I finally paid to have those replaced after the attitude gyro tumbled on him on an IFR flight out of Cleveland. The great mechanic we found so badly wanted us to move up to the IO-470 instead of our E-225-8, but it wasn’t in the cards with one owner losing his job (“Reagan will never dare to fire us air traffic controllers!”) and another refusing to pay his share, so we remaining two guys had to sell. I wonder if the D model in a hanger in my hometown in Iowa is still there rotting away…. Didn’t have those mouse guards on that one so the interior is probably shredded…

[@michaelklepacz]

Super clean all things considered!

[@handyman75657]

Absolutely Magnificent.

[@edwardstephens247]

The Bonanza is my favorite small plane!

[@stevenrichards8880]

Cool find 'good luck"

[@strykert3929]

Beautiful aircraft 👍🏼

[@clear-the-prop]

Beautiful find she’s near mint. Other than adding a sure fire magneto and a JPI Engine monitor I wouldn’t touch nothing as long as everything works she’s like an old sexy classic car like a big girl fly👍

[@crooked-halo]

And assuring the tail AD is done.

[@maryrafuse3851]

What a beautiful airplane. It reminds me of the people I knew while I was growing up. Many vets from the greatest generation flew Spitfires, Mustangs, including the deadly P-51D, and a rare few the Mosquito both fighter & bomber. Even the training aircraft were beautiful machines. The Harvard was an American beauty. Imagine trying to get flying out of your blood? Impossible for some. Imagine finding an airplane you could afford to gas up, an airplane to take your family places.

[@airman64]

It's in beautiful shap

[@andrewallen9993]

a nice old fork tailed Dr. killer!

[@no1herebutuschickens]

Not bad looking. I have an H35. FYI, a cheap solution for the strut seal is to put some AT205 transmission sealer in with the fluid and then pump it. You can get the Granville Seal, but mine have held for 2 years doing this.

[@AsylumAir]

Thanks for the tip! Thats great info for a sticky or deflated situation :)

[@WX4CB]

holy crap... for being in a hanger for that long i'm surprised at how "clean" it is considering.... why can't @jimmys world find these lmao. dunno how bad it smelled in there but couldn't have been that bad with the doors shut. the mold is in there though... but that's an awesome find... now to get the ADs done and a decent overhaul and annual.

[@crashalexander7232]

what a lovely doctor killer ....lol cool story and documentation ...

[@jamesbruce1183]

Brings back memories. I was partners in 559D. We had no landing light on the nosewheel. Just in both wings. Also had panel update above the piano keys. We ended up installing a 4 fuel gauge panel so we didn't have to use a switch to see fuel levels. It looks like that one has been converted to FI. O-470G-CI. There are probably many AD's that need to be complied with.

[@jamesbruce1183]

@Galileo7of9 I knew that. But that is an H35 like ours. With almost same N number/serial number. Does it have the 40 gal wing tanks and no Aux? I think you have to change the wing LE to get the 40 gal tanks.

[@jamesbruce1183]

@Galileo7of9 From the factory, right. But the video is an H35 like the one I was partners with. I think I saw M tips on it. Our tips were rounded.

[@jamesbruce1183]

Def has M tips. But with lights in the leading edge and fuel caps for the Aux's the wing looks stock. Maybe the nose gear landing light was an option or add-on.

[@bnghjtyu767]

I have a list of like a hundred items that I need to inspect thoroughly or switch out on a unit like this first thing comes to my mind what's the camshaft look like. Nice old bird.

[@brentdykgraaf184]

Leaving now...will see you on Dan and Juan's channel soon.

[@TechGorilla1987]

@7:31 - You even had wheel chock on your jack in the garage, but none for the first fire? Interesting. Thanks for the video!

[@christianjforbes]

I finally get to see what’s been hiding in that hanger all these years.

[@MrMaxeemum]

I was for sure "That thing ain't starting at that turnover speed" then it popped a little then a little more but even then I was sure it wasn't going to start as it just didn't turnover faster enough and even struggled to do a full rotation, but then its soul that slumbered for 34 years awoke and it wanted to live, BRUMMMMM I'M ALIVE!!!!!!!!

[@garycooper4526]

beautiful

[@petervautmans199]

beautifully kept, one of the most beautifull/best planes in the world (except when U R a doctor)

[@rrrak86]

Why can’t I find a gem like that?

[@johnrltr]

Very nice old Bo. Looking forward to your next vid. I'm curious: how do you air up the struts? How much pressure is required? And did you spray something like MMO into the spark plugs? Are you expecting to find a good bit of corrosion in the engine after all those years? btw, that jack is just amazing!

[@truckergare]

Cool channel, but would like to see more of the step by step that goes in to getting a plane back into the air.

[@bthomas8156]

I would be interested to see how the radio works in this beauty

[@randall1959]

Whoever packed that one away knew what they were doing. It didn't even smoke.

[@B2K1966]

Damn, lucky find.

[@thammanoonkamfunt5470]

Cool aircraft

[@lbowsk]

Very cool.

[@jeremyduncan3654]

What a score this.

[@chadwickalexanderjr1758]

Back in the day this plane was sometimes called the "V Tailed Doctor Killer".

[@mitchsterling3266]

Amazing airplane

[@carrisasteveinnes1596]

As an idiot, I immediately assumed this plane was a Mooney and not a Beechcraft.

[@rexmyers991]

A true time capsule. If you can get it in the air you should head straight for Oshkosh. I think you’d win a prize.

[@brettuleja4461]

Sweet!

[@JeffHaddox]

Thanks for sharing this! What tools and chemicals did you use to clean the engine? Looking to do this on my airplane.

[@robertm2172]

I was thinking of all the tsb/aard’s that need to be done

[@EVAUnit4A]

Wait. So, you're telling me this airplane has been sitting in a hangar for almost as long as I've been alive??? Why not just sell if you're not gonna use it?! The amount of work- and money- to get that plane functional after so many decades is gonna be significant compared to if it had been working all this time. Tires, hoses and cables, seals, belts, _anything_ that is rusted... it may not be a warbird, but it still boggles the mind! The only thing I can say that they did right was the 'mouse guards', and the blankets didn't hurt either.

[@mrkhokhar4895]

Engine area very tidy keept well .

[@CarlosAlberto-ii1li]

Dyslexia is alive and well on KZbin.

[@karlbraun9564]

Ah, a forked tailed doctor killer is reborn.

[@revengense7604]

What was that thing he was using in that glass box?

[@ramenhausten]

Where do you look for this barn finds mate? I could really use the help

[@flyboycpa]

Remember that it's hangAr, not hangEr. One is to store a plane, the other is to hang your clothes.

[@stubi1103]

A beautiful Airplane but who was the previous owner and why was the machine shut down in 1988?

[@drewmog123456]

Did you change the oil?