Nice t craft on barnstormers

[Joe cooper]

Located in Omaha, Nebraska. Red and creme color. Looks nice, price is right, recently rebuilt. 25 grand. Reasonable. Needs shoulder harnesses.

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: Nice t craft on barnstormers

Any more info?
Hank

[M Towsley]

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I believe this is the one he is talking about: http://www.barnstormers.com/ad_detail.php?ID=883163

[Nefj40]

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I don't know anything about the plane, but I know the father/son that rebuilt it. I had heard they where restoring a T-craft and it actually was posted for sale last April right after I got mine. I'm going to assume they did good work. The picture with the golf course and grain elevators in the background is on my home airport where I keep my plane.

[Joe cooper]

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I don't know anything about the plane, but I know the father/son that rebuilt it. I had heard they where restoring a T-craft and it actually was posted for sale last April right after I got mine. I'm going to assume they did good work. The picture with the golf course and grain elevators in the background is on my home airport where I keep my plane.

This is indeed the one I was talking about. Looks like it was very nicely done. Prop looks new, worth some dough if so.

[Bird]

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I can see some of the same things in my BL-65. Mine had a complete rebuild-I am assuming from a training accident early in it's life and it included the deluxe features and now is a heinze 57

[Fooey]

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This is a very nice aircraft. I looked at it and had a post on here about whether the panel was original. Downside for me was it has gained a hundred pounds over the years and has
a useful load of 353 lbs. My wife and my big butt scale in at 200 so over by 50 with zero fuel. Maybe I am being too picky? But nicely redone. The man selling the plane is a very nice
guy. He even had it reweighed for me to verify useful load. I am still having second thoughts on passing on it.

[Joe cooper]

Re: Nice t craft on barnstormers

This is a very nice aircraft. I looked at it and had a post on here about whether the panel was original. Downside for me was it has gained a hundred pounds over the years and has
a useful load of 353 lbs. My wife and my big butt scale in at 200 so over by 50 with zero fuel. Maybe I am being too picky? But nicely redone. The man selling the plane is a very nice
guy. He even had it reweighed for me to verify useful load. I am still having second thoughts on passing on it.

I never used the wing tanks in any of the three t crafts that I owned. They were all 65 hp and even with just me in the plane at 195 lbs, they were really underpowered on warm days. (I fly out of 2300 feet paved or grass with trees at one end, barn at the other. ) this particular airplane looks to be well done and the McCauley prop on it is worth 3 grand for starters. However if you and wife are heavyweights, your probably looking at the wrong plane. It looks great and it's a shame they didn't put an 85hp ( at least) on it.

[RyanShort1]

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OTOH, my 65hp T-craft and my previous one did just fine at max gross and fuel in the wing tanks.

[Joe cooper]

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OTOH, my 65hp T-craft and my previous one did just fine at max gross and fuel in the wing tanks.

Your interpretation of "just fine" is probably different from mine. Maryland in summer is hot and humid. With my 195 lbs and my wife who weighs only 110 lbs my last two t crafts struggled over the trees . I must admit I only reverted to a t craft when I had to fly light sport. Going from a mooney 201 or a Citabria 150 hp back to a 65 hp t craft was unpleasant and the climb out was anything but fine. Many t craft owners have upgraded the engines but in researching it, I felt it was better just to sell the last one and try to find a nice one preferably with a don swords conversion or at least an 85 with a lightweight starter. Two or three grass strips I would like to visit, I could land, but would not be able to take off from with a 65 hp.

[RyanShort1]

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Your interpretation of "just fine" is probably different from mine. Maryland in summer is hot and humid.

You should try Texas when it's 105 degrees. I was pleasantly surprised that my last bird with a high / mid time engine could climb 3-400 fpm with two people and full gas last summer. My new bird seems to have less of a climb prop, but still does respectably well.
In contrast, the old J-3 I had been flying in Boerne would barely make pattern altitude by the numbers on downwind on a hot day.

Ryan