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Hello, All! About a year ago, I started airplane shopping. For personal and professional reasons, I had to back-burner that after never getting past the tire-kicking stage. Along the way, I got a lot of help from folks on this board, so now I'm returning to the fount as I prepare to begin...

Is there a place one can get the historical price of new planes for the past 10-20 years ? Want to know how the price of planes moved up over the years. Second question is about the price difference between the manufactures and the dealers. Can one project that the bigger the difference, the...

Another newbie question for the group: (I feel like this MUST have been discussed here before, but my search came up empty--if I need to work on my USENET search skills, try to be gentle with me....) Can anyone help me decode what's going on with Lycoming's SB 569? It seems like all the...

Hello, Our KNS-80 today wasn't 100%. Infact, for most of the day it was U/S. Here is some background... today was cold...-15C (5F). I turned on the heat in the hangar about 90 minutes before the flight so that the cabin would get warm. Once i started the plane and turned on the avionics...

Hey, Folks: Grab a beer on me, I'd like to solicit some more opinions. If you've read the other thread on airplane comparisons, you know I'm shopping for an airplane. So, I have another question. This time, not how to compare airplanes, but how to make an apples-to-apples comparison...

OOOkay, the last time I bought a set of inspection mirrors was back in '66 when I was with PSA. I just dropped my favorite gimballed mirror and am in the market for a new mirror(s). I guess a set of mirrors every 40 years isn't too bad. Anyway, anybody got a favorite source for inspection...

Our airport is opening up some new areas for hanger construction. There is some concerns over the length of the new lease terms and I was hoping to get the following from some of your airports: 1. Length of ground lease in year (20-30-40, more?) 2. Number of term renewals (one or two or more): 3...

For those who have sold an airplane before, how do the dealers charge their fees for finding a buyer ? 3%, 5%, 10%of the purchase price ? Or a fixed amount for a "listed period" ? I'm most interested in information on commission for planes in the $100,000 - $200,000 range. P S

From: Uncle Al Date: Thurs 30 Dec 1999 00:00 Email: Uncle Al Groups: sci.physics wrote:

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Piper Archer II PA28-181 Help please !! We have just replaced the cabin roof airduct in our 1977 Piper Archer II PA28-181. The duct feeds fresh air from the rear mounted blower to each of the 4 overhead air outlets. The air is controlled by a push & pull cable mounted in the duct. With the air...

Hello, I'm on the board of our local flying club and we manage the GA ramp. I am wondering if people can share with me what their airport (or other airports they've been to) are charge for overnight fees for jets. We have a small overnight fee for planes (which i believe is waived if they fuel...

My flying club in Germany has purchased a 1972 Piper Pawnee PA25-235 "C" as a restoration project. Now we are looking for some big sketches (construction papers, blueprints or building plans?) of the aircraft with the drawing we need for the work on the aircraft giving all detail information on...

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I have a Collins GLS-350 glide slope receiver I would like to channel using 2 of 5 channeling. The Pinout info I have only refers to BCD. I see references to using 2 of 5 with this receiver but no details how to do it.

Howdy, I'm lucky to have found a lot nearby that has pretty much everything I want, including 2600 ft. of turf runway. This whole thing has been carved out of the bush in the past 6 months. Great fishing is just a stretch of the legs away, and while it is awfully rural, it isn't that far away from...

Just this past week my Bonanza V35's pitot heat element failed. I had a mechanic look at it to determine if the cause was power/wiring related or if the element itself had failed. Of course, it was the element itself that had failed, which apparently in the Bonanza's case means a new pitot...

Apparently, installation of the Airgizmo panel dock is quite the touchy subject up here in the Northeast. I know this has been a subject of a number of threads but I figured I'd relay my experience so far. Since I would like it integrated with my Garmin 430 and 340 audio panel (for the audio out),...

Since many aircraft owners have asked me about building our mogas fuel truck (which we called "The Mighty Grape" because of its horrible purple color) I thought I'd post my experiences with bringing our new "Grape" -- a '95 Toyota T100 -- to life. The Mighty Grape -- subject of magazine articles...