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Thought you all might like to see what my old hanger partner's half looked like. Somewhere in that mess there's a 1948 Stinson owned by a 83 year old man. I finally sold my half and built a new hanger. Much less stress . The trailer house he lives in looks worse than this. He put about $12,000 in the engine (Franklin) and pretty much parked it a couple of years ago. If you run the "N" number you'll find it doesn't exist any more.

A very nice guy, but a real pack rat. The upper loft is filled with old newspaper and EAA magazines. I think his EAA number is in the low 1000.

So what do you keep in your hanger?? (I must not have enough to do today ).

So what do you keep in your hanger?? (I must not have enough to do today [/quote]

Somewhere in CA


At 3OH0 Daune Jones 7AC



Mikek

I guess I could use the heading "The Hanger That Was". When I was in process of moving out of the "Rat Pack" hanger above and having a new one built, a storm came along with 70 MPH winds right out of the north and into the front of the hanger. As the ground was soft, no cement and the door hadn't been completed yet, the wind picked the hanger up like a big box and tossed it back into the woods. My Champ in the picture was just going to get the final inspection after two years work restoring it to flying condition. This is actually the way, I found the hanger and Champ that evening after the storm subsided. No damage to the Champ other than a small dent in the leading edge where something must have hit it as the hanger was going over. One of my friends said "You got to be the luckiest guy in the world". I had to agree.

I spent the rest of the summer putting the hanger up myself!!

mikeberg/wi wrote:
. One of my friends said "You got to be the luckiest guy in the world". I had to agree.

I have a picture around here somewhere of a C-182 sitting in a hangar just like yours. I think it must be the nature of the beast. microburst spends all its energy lifting the hangar and leaves a still area inside the hangar where the aircraft sits.

Mike,
Remarkable! Especially in that your Champ wasn't tied down! We had a tornado go thru an airport in Mid Michigan a number of years ago that wiped out a half dozen planes. The exception was the case where a C172 was tied down inside a hangar. After the storm the hangar was hundreds of feet away while the C172 sat on the slab unscathed.

You are a truly lucky guy!
Tim

Actually, it was tied down, but the ski ropes broke. After we pulled the wings (for storage) we could find no damage anywhere, other than the small dent I mentioned. I spent a lot of time looking the Champ over after the incident and we did the spar AD with the upper covers afterward, also.
Just dumb luck, I guess. The ground was pretty soft from the site preparation and the posts pulled out. The contractors hadn't bothered to cement the posts in (I found out later). When I put the hanger back up myself, I cemented all the posts in and also put rods through the posts below the cement line...........live and learn. .

Current and hopefully soon to be finished project, a New Standard D-25 in the hangar. The wings are for yet another D-25 that we're building up. And in the right corner, wearing the chipped and cracked urethane paint, the Middletown Marauder, N2120E.

nkh

Nathan,
How are you set for tail feathers. I ran across a bunch of tail pieces and think there is some New Standard in the pile.
Paul

We're squared away for the two in the shop and a 3rd in waiting, but I'm curious about what you found. There's a guy in New Hampshire toolled up to make most major parts, but other options are always nice. And the $69 dollar question, where'd you find them at???

nkh

I think this was the spares from the rebuild of 149M in the late 70,s. What I saw was the tail surfaces in a jumble of other parts that were not New Standard.
Paul