Staggering staggerwing!!!

[wolfee]

This is one of my most wanted AC of all time!...


And it is FOR SALE!!!!

http://www.courtesyaircraft.com/n9405H.htm

[uhhuh35]

Re: Staggering staggerwing!!!

Very nice, I see it's in Germany? While I was at Chino Airport in July I saw a guy pushing this into his hangar:





BTW, can anybody identify that canopy below the wing in the second photo? I'm guessing it's from a MIG. I didn't ask the guy so I honestly don't know.

[wolfee]

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I soooooooooooooo want this AC!!...

one day... one day I will have one.

[supercub]

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Anyone remember the Staggerwing Races at Reno....forget what year it was. If memory serves me correctly, I believe they were required to carry a second person as an observer, since the visibility is so limited.
Brian

[Ken from PG]

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Reno 2006 Static display. Yea...I wanted it too!

["Race" Driver]

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Back in 1955 I wonder what this staggerwing in the background would have gone for??????

[Victor Archer]

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Here's a couple more of the Chino bird:

[wolfee]

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Tyson, you cannot tell me you dont have any photos of them at Osh.

I know you do!

Please share duuuude!

[tjyak50]

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Staggerwing is for sure one of my personal "Top 10".

Pictures from my first Staggerwing ride in Joe M's "Total Seal" Staggerwing in Phoenix (This one is now for sale).

Roll down the windows and just cruise...

Notes:
1) The windshield is glass, not plexi. It is like cleaning a glass table because it is so reclined.
2) The airplane has a rather "springy" feel.
3) The tailwheel unlock handle is in a perilous position if you ask me.

[AERRACE]

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Supercub the Staggerwing raced in 1970, my first trip to Reno. If I won
the lottery and could afford any airplane my first choice would be Mr. Beech's masterpiece.

[HiredBitSlinger]

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Not recent, but here is one from Modesto in about 1989.

Dan Plunkett

[wolfee]

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Not recent, but here is one from Modesto in about 1989.

/drool!

[stuntflyr]

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The Staggerwing at Chino is Dave Passannante's Beech B-17R. Built in 1935 it was originally owned by the Loffland Bros and they traded their Beech 17R fixed gear for this one.
It has a P&W R-985 now, electric gear and hydraulic toe brakes, originally it had pnuematic gear and brakes, with DC-3 type bladders actuated with a "Johnson Bar".
Dave's Mig 15 UTI is up at Stead, usually in the RARA hangar but towed out for the race, the canopies were having the glass replaced by some SoCal locals. The drops and seats are being restored in my hangar.

Dave used to ride with Dad and me in my old man's Beech. Dad flew Bryant Morris's G-17S N80317 in the 1970 Reno Staggerwing races. They fuled it with 115/145 and dad turned the prop up to 2500. It went about 195 indicated on the straights, he said. They used the 3 mile course.

Pic below is Dad's Beech D-17S (GB-2) N60149 in which he bravely taught me to fly and soloed me on my 16th birthday. No brake pedals on the right, throw-over wheel, he would correct my mistakes by power and rudder, and "verbal hint's".

[stuntflyr]

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Back in 1955 I wonder what this staggerwing in the background would have gone for??????

My Father bought our family Beech in 1970 for $9000. At Reno 1970 Chuck Hall offered to swap Dad straight across for Miss RJ.
Chris...

[supercub]

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Tom Hillier......still owns a Staggerwing here in Modesto. There's a private strip, just northwest of Santa Nella on the east side I-5 . I've heard there's a couple of Staggerwings that belong to the family there.......supposedly they've had them for years.
Brian