Aeronca, et al for sale

[Carl Prather]

I've bought a project Porterfield 35-70 from a woman in Tennessee. Her husband recently passed away, leaving a few airplanes that were acquired over the years. He has a flying Porterfield 35W, a Funk and finally a 7BCM. If there are people in the Aeronca group who truly looking for a plane to purchase, please email me and I'll pass on your information. She's a sweet a lady but her loss is still upsetting so I would like to provide names of those who have genuine interest as any discussion about the planes includes memories of her husband.

Let me know if any of you interested.

Tx,

Carl Prather

[joea]

Glad to see you helping find a good home for the planes.

[Carl Prather]

Jeff,

Here's the first set of pics. I spoke to her again this evening and found that is a new windshield, new wing struts, new ribs, new wing tanks. The fuselage has been gone through and is rust free.
The engine is zero TSMOH. For a project, this seems to be pretty good start.

Carl

[Carl Prather]

Here's a few more:

[Carl Prather]

I have to work on the other pictures and they are larger than 256K

[joea]

Boy Carl,

Lots of good looking stuff there.

[Carl Prather]

Joe,

The guy was an airline pilot who passed away a few months back and left his wife with a fleet of old planes. I thought someone in the group might find the Aeronca worthwhile. The plane is essentially at the assembly stage right now.

Carl

[CptKelly]

How much time is on the engine? I assume its an A-65? Do you know the "neighborhood" of what they desire to get out of this project?

Mike

[bladd]

Ball park price would be good. I'm in the market for one to fly, but a good project is hard to resist.

-Brooks

[Paul Agaliotis]

Mike,
It looks like a new engine. And it's a C85-8.
Paul

[Carl Prather]

Gang,

Paul has it right. It's a zero time C-85-8. I think for as a project, it seems to be a very good start. For you folks who are truly interested just email me for her name and phone number. She's a pretty resilient lady but talking about planes and her husband can be tough. It seem like it was everything to the two of them. Her husband taught her to fly, so she's a fellow tail dragger pilot

Remember it's an L-16, Let me know,

Carl

[joea]

Find a good home for it Carl. This is one project that deserves to be in good hands!

[bladd]

What's your email? Or email me at brooks.ladd over on gmail.

Thanks,

-Brooks

[Dudley]

Carl,
Are you aware of an inventory list for this aircraft? It will be difficult to arrive at a value without knowing what is missing. Thanks, Dudley

[joea]

What's your email? Or email me at brooks.ladd over on gmail.

Thanks,

-Brooks

Brooks,

On the bottom of every post on this board are "email" and "PM" icons. This will give you the contact info for anyone you need to get in touch with.

Joe A