Who ordered up this weather?! The Santa Ana winds blew us all around, now a tropical-grade cold rain.. and then... blue skies like it never happened. We're confused.
What I do know is... tomorrow is supposed to be nice! Just in time for the weekend!
I know some more things too!
Cessna 61Q completed a 100hr.
Cessna 68U has a new nav/com1
Cessna 739 has a new set of nav lights
Cessna 94M has a new alternator.
Cessna 63B is going in for 100hr this week after a lap around the U.S.
Cessna 17J is ready to fly!
Wait a minute... One Seven who?
That's right... our little girl is back from the massage therapists at Tom's Aircraft in Long Beach, where she was treated to, among other things, a new engine, a new propeller, and significant new interior and sheet metal pieces. She's as good as new, and flies great!
Our friend Gerd took her up and down the coast on the laborious and noisy task of breaking in the new engine... and after her initial oil change, she is now ready for a new season of flying! Available immediately for bookings!
Welcome back, Julie! We missed you!
I mentioned Hamburgers too!
To welcome our girl back to the ranch, and celebrate (belatedly) her 5th birthday, we are throwing a BBQ tomorrow, assuming the sunshine holds out. (current forecast: yes!) -- If you are in our neck of the woods, feel free to join us for some snacks, some drinks, some music, and a whole lot of pilots talking a whole lot of hangar trash...
The least you need to know:
Noon tomorrow (Saturday)!
Snacks
Hangar trash talk
Pilots
:) Hope to see you there!!
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I swiped the photos above rather unceremoniously from Gerd with no permission whatsoever, jackal that I am.. and as such, Gerd will be getting at least two hamburgers of his choosing tomorrow -- including yours if he claims it! Thanks for the flight, Gerd!
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Blue Skies, cool weather... sounds like an excuse to grab some air therapy!
See ya soon,
- Mike
P.S. -- you guys are too good at this name-that-plane business -- nice job to the 8 of you who called out the Electra Jr.. often mistaken for the Beech 18. ...So here's a fresh one. If you all jump on this one with the same veracity, I will be forced to find some Romanian WW1 prototype planes to stump you with ;)
