On Sep 14, 5:03*pm, Bob Moore wrote:
Mark *wrote

I'll tell you why. After realizing the skipper I looked at wasn't
LSA I searched the ads and found more than one of them
that weighted 1100 lbs. *This led me to speculate that maybe
there was a variant that did qualify. *I like to believe the best
in people and wanted to think I was wrong.

This is what Wikipedia has to say about the Skipper's weight.

Empty weight: 1,100 lb (500 kg)
Useful load: 580 lb (260 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 1,675 lb (760 kg)

The maximum takeoff weight for a LSA is 1320 pounds...that is without
floats of course.
No Skipper qualifies as a LSA.

Bob Moore

Thanks Bob. In actuality, a prolonged conversation has
evolved around, and been drawn out here over a very incidental event
whereby I briefly was mistaken, due to a plane salesman who
told me his Beech was an LSA. It's really no big deal except I
mentioned it here without realizing there would be an inquisition.

I simply swung by the airport in my spare time, looked at his
plane and decided to pass. Never flew it. Never saw his logs.
Hell, never met the guy in person. We talked on the phone a
couple of times. Had it been a viable prospect, THEN I would've
gotten down to brass tacks and ALL the particulars would've
been examined as should be and I would've become a student
of all things Beech Skipper. It was the only Skipper I'd ever
briefly considered and I never bothered to read up on them.
It only went 90mph and had undisclosed repairs.

Anything I've mentioned in this forum about Skippers has just
been off-the-cuff, casual, and not expected to hold up in a
Grand Jury investigation. In other words, I speculated as to
why someone advertised one as LSA, and the answer to that
will remain unknown, insignificant, and no reflection on me.

The Beech Skipper is a very nice looking plane inside and
out, and would make a beautiful lawn ornament.

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Mark