You Should Buy This Airplane

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@dandare-h5q Жыл бұрын

nice plane we had one of these for years great for puttin around the country side, wish you the best and the price is right on

@firstnamerequiredlastnameo3473 Жыл бұрын

I dearly wish I could buy this airplane. It is the type I learned to fly as a teenager in country with huge amounts of open farm and pasture land and NO control zones. On some summer days only me and some cruising buzzards had the whole sky to ourselves. The regular buzzards always gave way to the bigger "buzzard" if I got too close. (Those critters are truly ugly.) Bare minimum instruments. No radio, no artificial horizon or rate of climb/descent. No lights. No cabin heat. Did have air speed, engine speed, oil pressure/temp, altimeter, small 65 horse engine, climbing speed = 65 mph, cruising = 70, diving speed = 75, stalling speed about 45 to 50 mph (about. Was too busy with the landings to remember) Had a compass which was never sure which way was north. Could watch it vibrate in slow complete circles while I flew in a straight line. (I followed the highways below for navigation.) My father created a beautiful, well graded grass strip on one of his farms 3 miles south from our small gulf coast area town. About 1/2 mile long, north and south. Shared it with a local crop duster (licensed instructor) who taught my dad, brother in law, and me to fly. Flying came naturally to us three since we were very mechanically oriented. For me, as easy as riding a bicycle. Loved that "joy" stick, never cared for a "steering" wheel in a small airplane. Would you believe, (this was in the late 1950s), the student pilot license required only 10 hours of flying training and a 10 question true/false exam?! Good for 2 (renewable) years. General pilot license required a 100 true/false question exam. Also, needed a 3rd Class Medical certificate from a doctor. (I'm healthy and can see colors.) Those cowboys of the air crop dusters were my flying heroes who spread our rice seed and fertilizers. These guys flew low and fast. My father chided one duster pilot for flying so low that his landing gear had the tops of cotton stalks stuck in the landing gear. The pilot liked to hear the plants thumping against his tires so he knew he was flying as low as possible when spraying defoliant on cotton plants. In our open countryside, these guys hardly ever flew cross country higher than a couple of hundred feet. (Lots of gravel roads for emergency landings.) These were glorious and thrill saturated times for a teenager, all alone in the summer sky with puffy clouds above and the patchwork farmlands below. My most memorable experience happened while returning home on the 3rd leg of my required 2nd cross country solo. I was flying along Highway 59 when one of those fat, dense coastal rain clouds was right in my path. I could not go around, could not climb fast enough to get above, so had to go under it. Now, flying with no artificial horizon so near to ground with no visual contact is suicidal risky. Going under the cloud was my only option so I could maintain visual contact with the ground. I dropped down to 1,000 feet. Cloud density was quickly increasing, so I dropped (cautiously) to 500 feet till I see enough of the earth below to stay oriented. As fortune would have it, I was also passing dead center over main street of a small town on my path so I could not get too low in case a radio tower might meet my small plane. I distinctly remember thinking that if I don't get this plane back home in one piece, my father was going to be really upset with me. Otherwise, this was quite the thrill for adventurous me, rain beating against the plexiglass windshield, black rain cloud brushing my head and city buildings brushing my feet (figuratively). (Note: My mental makeup never allowed me to panic in any situation. Instead, my thinking would become clear, focused, and stimulated by a burst of adrenaline resulting in fast reaction time.) In today's crowded, highly controlled air world, my open range teenage adventures would be hard to come by. The farmland with the air strip has been long sold out of the family. The private strip is still on aeronautical maps, and a much expanded crop dusting operation lives there run by unrelated owners.

@907AKUSA Жыл бұрын

Sad to see you selling your plane but excited for your future! Good luck man!

@shopdoc Жыл бұрын

A 1946 Aeronca Champ is just special PERIOD! What a wonderful plane. I'd stick to your price as 25K is cheap for a classic like this.

@low_lead Жыл бұрын

This is a such a great example of the kind of Champ you want to buy. It's in annual, it's got a low time engine and it's been flown regularly. Bingo.

@fishertrowbridge Жыл бұрын

Thank you, it was a great airplane.

@GeneralChangFromDanang Жыл бұрын

That is a nice looking, original Champ. I also had to give up a 50% share in one recently so I could expand my business. Hoping to get back into flying sooner rather than later. I hope your new career works out for you.

@fishertrowbridge Жыл бұрын

Thank you and good luck to you!