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Haven't flown the Taylorcraft near enough in the last year, but flew yesterday and today, and just before landing today the tach hit 700. When I bought it in '94 it had 149 on it (tach reading, not TT). I bought it in Florida, flew it home to Virginia, and since then it's been to Vermont, Oshkosh via Canada, Virginia to California, and back via Washington, Oregon, etc. I did a deadstick aerobatic act in it for a couple of years, and it's been in a lot of hayfields that have probably never before seen an airplane.
When I first got it I tracked down the original owner, Dr. George Green of South Bend, IN. He was 94 at the time and still complained that it got dark on the flight home from Alliance in '39 and when he turned on the nav lites he found that the battery was dead on his brand new airplane. He and his wife flew it to Florida twice and she learned to fly in it. I was hoping he'd send me some photos, but he never did.
I've had some other pretty cool airplanes, and access to more, but the Taylorcraft is hard to beat for an all around good airplane. The other ones came and went, but '23876 is still here.
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When I first got it I tracked down the original owner, Dr. George Green of South Bend, IN. He was 94 at the time and still complained that it got dark on the flight home from Alliance in '39 and when he turned on the nav lites he found that the battery was dead on his brand new airplane. He and his wife flew it to Florida twice and she learned to fly in it. I was hoping he'd send me some photos, but he never did.
I've had some other pretty cool airplanes, and access to more, but the Taylorcraft is hard to beat for an all around good airplane. The other ones came and went, but '23876 is still here.
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