MY DREAM AIRPLANE

SOLD (5/25/12) !!!

MAPA 1998 Best of Series Award
M20C Original

This is a 1965 Mooney M20C with a carburated 180 Lycoming engine. It is so clean that it cruises at 170 mph (147 knots) at 70% cruise power. It has some high speed mods (nose clousre, not shown) without changing much of the original skin to the aircraft. The paint job is about a seven, the interior a seven, and the engine only has 1500 hours (as of 3/12) since factory remanufacture.
Mooney N7883V Panel View

The panel has been totally modified since its original configuration, now featuring a modern T panel. The airplane sports a Garmin 430W(slaved to the autopilot, IFR certified), and S-TEC autopilot with altitude hold, GPS roll steering (GPSS) and approach capability , 1 KX-155's, and S-TEC autopilot with altitude hold, GPS roll steering (GPSS) and approach capability, dual ILS's, transponder, and audio panel, DME. Yes, that is a big Johnson bar for the landing gear (for those of you who don't know either, the 30" bar is used to put the gear up and down (mechanically). Monney N7883V Interior View

As you can see, it also has a nice interior. I'm not sure about the yellow panels; but you can't have everything. The carpets and seat covers all look new and the panels have very little aging. Couldn't have gotten more lucky.

LOGBOOK SUMMARY
- Registration: N7883V
- Airframe: 4900 Hours Total Time Since New (as of Aug 2011)
- Powerplant: 1500 Hours Total Time Since Factory Overhaul (as of 1/12). All cylinders 70+ at last annual (4/12)
  (Lycoming 0-360-AID, 180 HP, 2000 TBO)
- Propeller: New Hartzell 2-Blade propeller with new hub installed 8/07
  (Hartzell Model HC-C24K-IBF), New since 2008 to get rid of recurrent AD's for hub
- Annual Completed April '12, all A/D's complied with.
- IFR Certification Due July 2012
EXTERIOR
- Painted 1993, White Base with Light Blue and Dark Blue Metallic Stripes
- Excellent Condition
INTERIOR
- Blue Leather Seats, Blue Carpet, Cream Colored Side Panels (New in 1992) and Headliner. Interior
- Refurbished in 1993 and is in Excellent Condition.
AVIONICS
- King KMA-24 Audio Panel with Three Light Marker Beacon
- Garmin 430W WAAS with Fuel Transducer ILS/GS (installed in 2007)
- King KX-155 NavComm with ILS/GS
- Garmin GTX 330ES (Extended Squitter) Mode S Transponder with traffic displayed on GNS 430W (ADS-B Out compliant)
- S-TEC 50 Autopilot w/ Alt Hold (Nav, Hdg, and GPS Coup, and GPSS roll steering)
- King KX-76 DME with remote channeling (installed 5/98)
- **All Listed Avionics we installed in March of 1993.
FEATURES
- Modified " Standard T" Instrument Panel (201 Style), Modified Yokes, Alternator Kit Upgrade (1995), Vertical Card Compass, EGT, Manual Gear and Flaps, Whelan Strobe, Clock, Vacuum Driven Retractable Step, Flightcom 403 Intercom (4-place hot mike with aux input), Overhead Venting and Lighting, Suction Guage, 4 probe digital EGT, Strobe, Alternate Static, nose air intake closure, new side glass, and 201 style static drains
NOTES
- Over $70,000 has been invested Avionics, Paint/Interior, and Engine/Prop in the last fifteen years. At 7,500 ft +5 IST, on 2/11/08, 2400 RPM, 23" MAP, 9.8 GPH, 70% BHP setting the plane attained 150 Knots (GPS) on a closed course, well above average for the M20C 'Mark 21'.