Do planes "expire"?

The flying club where I learned to fly had 3 of them (plus a sundowner and a
sierra), which is roughly 1% of all of them built. (There were three hundred
some-odd of them built). The Skipper is a fun airplane to fly, but not a very
good travelling machine (too slow, and not much useful load). You can tell them
apart from a traumahawk by looking at the top of the tail. The tomahawk has a
couple inches of the vertical fin above the stabilizer. The Skipper does not.

Jay Honeck wrote:

You should look into a Beechcraft 77 Skipper.. Much better than a
Traumahawk.. I have one that maybe forsale soon (if my wife lets my buy a
Cirrus) and its got to be one of the very best Skipper's out there..

We saw two of them parked side-by-side at SNF in Florida -- a truly rare
sight. I don't think I'd seen five Skippers in my life up till then.

What's the story with that bird? Why are they so nearly identical to the
Tomahawk? Heck, they look as if they could have been built on the same
production line!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
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