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Kingsly
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Some of my earliest memories are of climbing around in the tail boom of my grandpa's '46 North American Navion as he rebuilt her and added lots of modifications along the way.
Some twenty years later she's mine to look after. Sadly my grandfather passed away some eight years ago, which is also when she ha her last annual. The plane spent about six years on a tiedown in overland park, ks, where she developed a port side list due to probably blown hydraulics on the port landing gear, and her engine bay became host to a small colony of birds. Some two years ago I flew out there and cleaned out the birds and had her put in a hangar.
Living in Los Angeles, it's somewhat difficult for me to keep a close watch on her. I'm about to begin work toward my license, and the whole family agrees shed be better looked after (and probably suffer less at the hand of mother nature) in sunny socal!
I'd like to get her airworthy enough for a ferry permit to whiteman in the San Fernando valley, where I can spend every spare moment bringing her back to the condition my grandpa kept her in!
Other than the blown shock, I don't know of anything pressing that is wrong with the plane. The engine turns over freely (we haven't tried starting it).
Thoughts on what I'd need to do?
Thanks!
Some twenty years later she's mine to look after. Sadly my grandfather passed away some eight years ago, which is also when she ha her last annual. The plane spent about six years on a tiedown in overland park, ks, where she developed a port side list due to probably blown hydraulics on the port landing gear, and her engine bay became host to a small colony of birds. Some two years ago I flew out there and cleaned out the birds and had her put in a hangar.
Living in Los Angeles, it's somewhat difficult for me to keep a close watch on her. I'm about to begin work toward my license, and the whole family agrees shed be better looked after (and probably suffer less at the hand of mother nature) in sunny socal!
I'd like to get her airworthy enough for a ferry permit to whiteman in the San Fernando valley, where I can spend every spare moment bringing her back to the condition my grandpa kept her in!
Other than the blown shock, I don't know of anything pressing that is wrong with the plane. The engine turns over freely (we haven't tried starting it).
Thoughts on what I'd need to do?
Thanks!