[f-AA] Bad news

[planeseller]

I think the Poobah has succumbed to the April first (April Fools Day, ) 
madness. Perhaps we have met before, I did fly in the Sand Point, Idaho 
area. But now I'm grounded due to a problem with radio communications, not 
to mention the heart attack. I will send a picture of myself soon. Karl 
Barker
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Jeffryes" <richard.jeffryes at centurytel.net>
To: <aeronca at westmont.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 7:43 AM
Subject: Re: [f-AA] Bad news


> 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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