[f-AA] Bad news

[Robert McDonald]

Robert,

You slipped.. your real return address appeared this time. :-)

Rob

At 11:26 04/01/2007, planeseller wrote:

>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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Rob McDonald, Owen Sound, Ontario
1946 Champ 7AC-3388 - CF-RWQ - xNC84677


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