There can be a time in any KR person's life when you have to make do with something else temporarily while the KR is either not finished or because it needs some time-consuming repairs. Even Mark, when he had his forced landing leaving his dad's farm with his KR, bit the bullet and bought a Swift, a Pober Pixie, a Waco look-alike, at least one Ercoupe and that Tri-Pacer Flesner sold him . . . plus that plane with the pusher propeller I can never remember the name of. SeaBee?
So buying something else to fly "in the meantime" is not unusual in the KR world. With that in mind, I want to mention a Cavalier that my friend Doug is selling. Doug is in his mid-80's and old age has caught up with him practically overnight. It was a hip fracture that started the ball rolling and it's been downhill ever since. Doug isn't going to be flying anymore and would like to find a good home for his Cavalier. He's asking 11.5 but that's negociable. He's got other things on his mind these days than trying to sell his plane for what it ought to sell for. Doug is a retired Navy officer and has meticulously kept up this plane both with maintenance and records. He's owned it 28 years. The same A&P has done the condition inspections all those years. Doug bought it in L.A. in 1987 with 200 hours on the airframe and the Franklin 0-235. Both now have 1200 hours since new. It's got a vacuum system and an artificial horizon and the full complement of standard instruments, both flight and engine. It would need to be certified with some system checks but this is an IFR capable airplane. Transponder and encoder of course. It's got panel lights, strobes, position lights, beacon, and two comfortable seats in a roomy cockpit. It cruises at 135 MPH burning 5 gallons per hour and carries 27 gallons total in two tanks. It starts instantly after two strokes of the throttle and runs smooth as silk. Really, it does. Most of us are not familiar with Cavaliers so please do what I've done and do a Google search for "Cavalier Aircraft" and you'll hit a Google Group full of history, pictures, specs, and all sorts of information regarding the design. Essentially it is an improved version of a French certificated aircraft called the GY-20 Minicab. They are a lot more well known in Europe, the UK, Canada & the down under countries than they are here although there is one on the cover of Sport Aviation October '76 when it won Grand Champion at Oshkosh. Picture of that one is attached. Doug's hangar is down the row from me and Sparky here at Gillespie. I've offered to help Doug sell his plane since he has somehow managed to get this far in life without a computer and it's pretty hard to sell anything these days without one. Plus, he's hard of hearing and his mind is on other things just now. It would be nice to find the plane a new home and also nice for Doug & his wife to get out from under the $355/mo hangar rent. I've offered to deliver the plane wherever the new owner wants it and they don't need to pay until it is sitting safely in their hangar. This airplane is a very capable flying machine that is being sold really cheap. It doesn't need anything. It's ready to fly. I've been asked about parts availability for the Franklin and since I'm no expert all I tell people is that Stinsons, Bellancas, Sikorskys and a whole bunch of other planes came from the factory with them and there's a lot of those planes and helicopters still flying, obviously with parts support from somewhere. If you Google "Franklin engine parts" there are pages full of suppliers that pop up so I'm guessing finding parts for this very highly regarded engine is not all that difficult. It currently doesn't need any. We've got it on Barnstormers. If you search for Cavalier it'll pop right up and was the only one there last time I looked. This is a really nice airplane for not much money in case somebody needs something to fly "in the meantime". Mike KSEE ____________________________________________________________ Want to place your ad here? Advertise on United Online http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/559b29541670229546a64st04vuc -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Sport Aviation 1976.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 116435 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://list.krnet.org/mailman/private/krnet_list.krnet.org/attachments/20150706/ffb81949/attachment.JPG>