After 7 years being parked in the hangar we finally got her flying again. I've been working on it for the best part of the last 3 months. It was built in 1937, and is #16 built out of 34. We plan of flying it again next Monday and Tuesday after fixing a few minor squawks.
The first video was taken with an iphone and the next three were taken with a Canon 7D.

First start
http://youtu.be/XV_BsWki4OE?hd=1

Second Start
http://youtu.be/Fj0pDPQ5u6E?hd=1

First take off
http://youtu.be/VrqevK5vVrI?hd=1

First Landing
http://youtu.be/ABuyd0F-YgA?hd=1

Spartan exec. Cool!

Yea, its a Spartan Executive, you beat me to it. Very cool and very rare.

JP Morgan owned the company and he also built Spartan trailers which are very collectible too. Beautiful Plane!

I would have paid to hear the symphony of the first video for 25 minutes!! What a great job on this beauty...I want to buy a ticket please. Great work Hafast

I will have to third or fourth the Spartan Executive.

Mr. Borman of Borman Steel in Palo Alto almost crashed his Spartan one evening. I was putting out the old black round smug pots that Palo Alto used to use as runway lights when I heard him coming in. I could see that he was just over the Palo Alto dump but had no gear down. I started raising my arms up and down hoping he would get the message. He powered up and the prop came within less that a foot of the runway before he leveled it off for a go around. That was back in the mid 60s. He died last year ( I believe it was ) as a passenger in a twin that took off from San Carlos and ended up nose down in a local lagoon.

They just don't make airplanes that beautiful anymore. We may know more about aerodynamics now than we did then, but they knew style.

Barreling down the runway at 260.....I can recognize a Spartan from any angle.....

Brian.