[f-AA] Bad news

[Richard Jeffryes]

Karl, do you live with Robert? I see that you use his email as well as your 
nevco.net account.

Richard in Creswell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "planeseller" <steubers at theunion.net>
To: <aeronca at westmont.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: [f-AA] Bad news


>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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