This here little bastard belongs to me now. I got it beyond cheap but it needs another engine. Prop strike due to over flexy gear and a shallow drainage ditch across the sod runway. No ground loop, airframe is pristine and extraordinarily done. Starduster SA-100. Now all I need to do is go get it in Edmonton, AB.


The gear on mine was set up for Reno air races. This is what it's supposed to look like. Had it been on the airplane the strike never would have happened.

Awesome! What engine is used in those? Looks like too much fun.

whee wrote:Awesome! What engine is used in those? Looks like too much fun.

This one has an O-290GPU in it. It's probably about the right horsepower but so many of the parts on the O-290 are true unobtanium that I'll maybe put an O-320 in it. The O-290 is the lightest of the Lycomings and I've got a line on a couple of 290D models which I may do. The crank is toast but my intuition tells me, having done lots of research on the history of the airplane, that the cam and lifters are gone too. There just aren't any. Anywhere. That is without just buying another engine with a good one. So we'll see. I need to hold my horses until I get it home and rip into it and find out what's what.

That's going to look really funny with 31 ABWs on it.
But then it will take care of the prop issue.
Way cool plane!
Good Luck!

Cool looking plane mister. Let me know when you come get it, I'm about 5 hrs away and may be able to make it work to help you load it and meet you.
David

A1Skinner wrote:Cool looking plane mister. Let me know when you come get it, I'm about 5 hrs away and may be able to make it work to help you load it and meet you.
David

The airplane is in Stony Plane. The seller is a crop duster. I sent off for the Passport last Thursday. I don't think I need it to get into Canada but I will need it to get back. I'm hoping I can get up there sooner rather than later.

I'm hoping I can get 800 x 6s on it. Might look kinda cool but the Scott 2000 is definitely gonna be a tail hook.

Dan

Dan, the fellow doesn't happen to be a guy named Paul is it?
Either way, it's a 5 hr drive or 1.5 hr flight. It'd be fun to help out and meet you. Let me know.

A1Skinner wrote:Dan, the fellow doesn't happen to be a guy named Paul is it?
Either way, it's a 5 hr drive or 1.5 hr flight. It'd be fun to help out and meet you. Let me know.

That's him!

Haha, small world. He was just up at my place looking at my 180 i had for sale not to long ago. Great guy.

One of the locals flies a Starduster One at my home field.... 0-290 powered... Perfect for the size... He flies it at least 150 hours a year...

Fun fact... The owner is a nut for those paper airplane models from Fiddlers Green and actually talked them into producing a Starduster One.. They used his airplane with the same paint scheme, orange with blue stripes...

Brian..

that's awesome, 701!

Congrats on your new plane! Hopefully it will be uneventful trip to get it to NV.

And the Devil has been talking to me, too. As a few of you know, I sold my Skylane to a friend of mine and the cash has helped me tremendously! I bought a trailer to live at our Man Camp near my mine site for a year or two and probably going to lease my house for a year or two to a young couple wanting to relocate to the Boise area from Arkansas.

Plan A is to stay at Man Camp for a year or two to save money to either buy or build a house in Elko or Spring Creek.

But, the Devil has been brain washing me into thinking I need a new plane NOW! LOL! One option is that one of my friends is willing to sell me his 2005 Scout and carry the loan for 8-10 years. This is so very tempting!! But, I know I can find an older Scout or Citabria for almost half the cost.

Second option is to just rent El Aero's 172 when I want to get my flying fix and continue saving for a house. But, they only have the one plane for now and it's only 150hp and many restrictions on where you fly and distance (pavement only). But also, this is the only rental plane I know of in northeast Nevada and within a two hour drive of our Man Camp. And I can still buy my second home in the Elko/Spring Creek area.

My third option will more than likely to lease my Idaho house out, move to Man Camp for at least one year, then buy a house in NV, then wait another year or two to buy another plane.

On the same note. My top choices for my next plane is either older model Citabria, Scout or another Straight Tail 182/180 (beater or wrecked that can be responsibly repaired will be considered).

Anyway.......... Hope this wasn't too much of a drift from the OP. But, I think it was on point as far as the Devil talking to some of us. LOL

Great choices on airplanes Pat. I really liked and most days miss my citabria. If I could carry the family in it I would still have it. The devil is talking to me too. I'd like to sell the 180, partner a Cherokee 6 or 206 with my brother for our longer flights, and get a wrecked citabria fuselage to build up in the homeowners maintenence category. I'm in Canada, and doing that I feel I could build a pretty sweet light plane for the kind of shenanigans that I will use that plane for.
Damn devil and his sweet talking ways...

A1Skinner wrote:Great choices on airplanes Pat. I really liked and most days miss my citabria. If I could carry the family in it I would still have it. The devil is talking to me too. I'd like to sell the 180, partner a Cherokee 6 or 206 with my brother for our longer flights, and get a wrecked citabria fuselage to build up in the homeowners maintenence category. I'm in Canada, and doing that I feel I could build a pretty sweet light plane for the kind of shenanigans that I will use that plane for.
Damn devil and his sweet talking ways...

A couple of other good options is a 205 and if you want to go the Experimental way, the Rans S7.

What to do?? What to do?? (I guess that can be another thread). LOL

Side note..... Hope you're doing well!!

I'm doing great. 3 more treatments.
I like the rans, but I'm fairly confident I can build a citabria for less. Maybe I'm crazy and smoking crazy things...
Good call on the 205, I see a few nice ones on Barnstormers. I would like AP for longer trips, and there is some nice Cherokee 6s to be had out there for very reasonable. Thanks for the input.

Hard to beat a Cherokee Six for a family wagon airport to airport. Fairly hard on fuel but man will they pack a load and comfortable. Bulletproof construction and good engine too. If the air taxis do their part here in AK the FAA lets them run 2500TBO.