[f-AA] Bad news

[Richard Jeffryes]

Haven't we met before?

Richard in Creswell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Karl at nevco.net>
To: <aeronca at westmont.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 7:18 AM
Subject: [f-AA] Bad news


> My whole life has been changed in the short time I have been on this list.
> I suffered a myocardial infarction (heart attack) last Thursday night
> which put me in the hospital in serious condition. My wife just brought me
> my laptop so I could bring some people up to date. It looks like my flying
> days are over for good. That is bad news, along with the fact that I have
> no medical or hospital coverage due to not having been on the present job
> long enough to qualify. So, I'm forced to put my father's project plane up
> for sale. If there is any interest on this list I would prefer not to have
> to list it on ebay. The project plane is a built from the ground up
> Aeronca LC which dad had put together over the years. When he died last
> July, the plane was sitting on the gear and covered thru silver with
> Ceconite. The major work is done, and dad was starting to put out feelers
> for a Warner Scarab Jr. engine to keep the plane as authentic as possible.
> He had collected some of the original type insturments, but it still needs
> some more to fill the holes in the panel He had the paint and was ready to
> paint the plane in the original Loening Yellow with black accents. Dad was
> born on July 4, 1919. He served in the Second World war as a Navy aviation
> machinist's mate. He could do all the things himself on the plane, as he
> later became a mechanic, A&P with an A.I.. He passed on June 14, 2006 and
> is sorely missed. I was helping him with the project plane which is
> sitting in a hanger in Sand Point. His workmanship is all top drawer and
> is flawless. He had to have everythin perfect or he would scrap what he
> was working on and do it until it was perfect. He was a whiz at metal and
> fabric work, and had even made the gear covers, etc. himself in his shop.
> I am sure sorry to have to sell his dream, but money is the thing I need
> most right now. In his stuff when he passed away was a day by day log of
> the work on the LC, complete with an original manufacturers plate for a
> long wrecked LC, which I'm hoping will qualify the plane as original, and
> not a homebuilt.
> Thanks for hearing me out, and perhaps someone would be interested in this
> plane before I have to go public with the offering.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Karl Barker
>
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