Comments on: Interior progress: Rounding third

By: John McG

John McG — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:05:18 +0000

Roy-

As a 30+ year owner of a Comanche 180, I drooled over the Twin COmanche at OSH and cried a little when I wasn’t invited to my local airport for a surprise presentation… I’m really glad to hear you are enjoying and loving that airplane, and I’m sure it will be sought after whenever you decide to part with it.. I’m pondering the great panel upgrade right now, but will probably need to find a partner to justify it…

By: David Reinhart

David Reinhart — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:47:18 +0000

That’s true if you don’t plan to keep it. This past year I put as much into avionics and paint into my 1976 Cardinal as the airframe is worth, but I’m planning on keeping the airplane. It’s also equipped the way I want it, not the way somebody else wanted it. I looked at other Cardinals but there was always something about each one that made me back off: WAAS updates not done to the GNS-430, stabilator bracket service bulletin not done, etc. I know this airframe & engine, so it makes more sense to me to update it to my spec and keep it.

By: thorne

thorne — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:31:54 +0000

Hi Roy–

Glad you are still flying the Twin Comanche. It was, of course, my favorite project….

Tom

By: Roy Wilbanks

Roy Wilbanks — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 03:26:32 +0000

As the lucky winner of the “Win-A-Twin” Twin Comanche sweepstakes airplane of 2004 I love the Seneca V yokes.
They really do make a major improvement and look great. Mr. Tom Horne was also the one in charge of seeing
all these changes were made and did an outstanding job on everything. After six years of flying and less than six
hundred hours on engines, everything is working great and I love flying it. All I can say is many thanks to AOPA
and all the contributors which made it possible.

Roy Wilbanks
AOPA 01148863

By: Kent Burke

Kent Burke — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:55:21 +0000

Love the progress; keep up the great work! Kent.

By: Asghar Shah

Asghar Shah — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 03:32:17 +0000

Love to know what this will cost at the end of the day, saw an airboyd video on youtube saying never buy an old plane and soup it up with $ 60000 electronics you will never get your money back I love what you are doing with this plane I hope I get a chance to look at it before you give it away
will you be publishing the list of all the vendors and how come a BRS system was not considerd ?