Auster

[McTow]

Thanks to all who viewed and answered the "Question" post. Now, is there a project for sale???

Thanks

[VictorBravo]

Re: Auster

There is a fine gentleman named Harold (Hank) Bullock somewhere in Oregon who restored and flies an Auster AOP 6 (145HP Gipsy engine and external "Junkers" flaps).

You will find a few here and there in Canada, but very few if any for sale (project or flying) in the USA. If you can find a guy named Dr. Alan Earp-Jones somewhere in BC, he used to have a project Auster for sale 20+ years ago... he might know someone in Canada with a barn project.

My friend John Morris has another AOP 6 on the East Coast of the USA, and there is an Auster Mk 9 (later. much uglier, much heavier, and no parts in common with the "regular" T-craft/Auster) at the Sun n Fun museum in Florida reportedly.

The best thing to do is contact http://www.austerclub.org/ and look through their classifieds section. Also contact them directly and ask for their contact(s) in Canada. You will surely dig up something through that method.

You can possibly pick up my old Auster in the Phoenix area. Contact Mike Volckmann at [email protected] and see if he wants to sell the project that I sold him so many years ago. Maybe he will sell it, I have no idea at all. It is a 1947 Mk. V J1 Autocrat that I was converting to the AOP 5 WW2 military version. This involved making a new boot cowl and firewall, new cowlings, new canopy, and changing from the Cirrus engine to a more reasonable Lycoming. I sold the project with an O-290G engine conversion, which believe it or not is almost the exact historically correct engine used by Auster in 1944-45. They bought ground power engines under lend-lease. If you buy that aircraft, I'd suggest you upgrade it to an O-320 engine. However, the original fuel system was an 18 gallon tank, and the O-290 or O-320 would go through that in a couple of hours plus a small reserve. The good news is that I would bet that a standard 6 gallon Taylorcraft wing tank would fit in the wings, so adding two of those would not be a big modification and give you 30 gallons total which is downright reasonable.

The story of my ferrying that aircraft from Tucson AZ back to Los Angeles can be found here if you have too much time on your hands: http://grantstar.net/index.php/aviat...e-stories.html and scroll down to the two stories titled "The Auster Hassle".

[Len Petterson]

Re: Auster

Canadain Warplane Heritage ( CWH) in Hamilton Ontario Canada has one. If it is for sale I don't know. I know they need a Prat and Witney for a Harvard, so saleing something may give them the money.
It used to owned by a farmer in my neck of the woods.
Check their website.
Len Petterson

[LostnSpace]

Re: Auster

I was in Yakima, Washington to pick up a new CubCrafters SportCub and there was an Auster not far from the hangar, I really liked the look of it, sort of like a bulldog, someways ugly, but I'd won't mind owning one, LNS.