[f-AA] Bad news

[Cy Galley]

The date of April 1st plus coming from  SquirrelMail/1.4.8 might just be the 
clue.  Good going Robert!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Karl at nevco.net>
To: <aeronca at westmont.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 9:18 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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