This blog is to chronicle my attempt to restore a 1972 Piper Cherokee 140e. This plane is the 'dog' of the airport and has been sitting untouched for 10 years. I purchased the plane and am attempting to restore it to flyable condition.
Hope everyone had a great holiday. The weather was terrible here with 76 degrees and storms on Christmas Day. That meant no flying but I was able to score some cool new things for the plane.
A new RAM yoke mount for my iPad. Can't wait to try this out on all those cross countries.
Anew Pitot cover (with flag) my old one was all dry and rotted off.
A handy checkmate reference card for operations. Much easier than having to dig through the flip book.
A sweet window decal for my car :)
And my favorite...a toy model of my plane for my desk at work :)
Got a little bit more time in the air yesterday and she's still doing just fine.
Right now we're just trying to put as much time on her flying around the airport as possible. Once we reach 10 hours or so we will do another oil change to check the filter. If all looks well we will then start to slowly branch out a little farther from the airport until we are comfortable taking it to a nearby airfield.
A beautiful 71 degree December? day was the perfect day to fly the little Cherokee. I finally got a chance to fly the little plane that I rescued almost 10 months ago. After years of seeing it sit unused I finally decided to try and rescue it along with my friend Cody.
We were able to test fly it last week for the first time in 10 years and now this week I was able to personally take her around the patch for a quick spin.
If you had told me a year ago that I would be celebrating my next birthday by flying my own aircraft I would have called you crazy.....
And Cody who helped me fix the little plane and always believed it could be airworthy again, was able to go around the patch as well with a CFI. His first time flying a low wing non-LSA aircraft!
