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January 2008 - Now
April, 2008  
 

Special Invitation: Mite owners are invited to the Golden West Regional Fly-In on Friday, June 6 through Sunday, June 8, 2008 at the Yuba County Airport, Marysville, CA. Details. 2008-04-19

Porterville Alert: We've just learned that motel rooms are going to be scarce on the weekend of the WAMM Fly-In, May 16 - 18. Here's an e-mail received today from WAMM president Michael Harms:

"Don Deaton has alerted me to other goings-on at PTV during the weekend of the combined Mooney Mite and Vintage Mooney Group Fly-In. The Red Star Pilots Association will have another Red Star Yaks get-together. Check out their web site.

"There will certainly be lots of activity around the airport! Last year the Red Star Yaks made the newspaper with an article and pictures of their many formation flights over Porterville. Ben Favrholdt wrote me: 'For the past five days, we had a YAK Fly-in here at PTV. There were over fifty YAK airplanes and two L-39 jets doing a lot of formation flying and the jets making low passes. I haven't seen this much activity here since our Moonlight Fly-in's many years ago. There were huge crowds and the motels were booked solid.'

"It's always fun to see people having fun around airports. If crowds aren't your "thing" you can sit at the hangar and talk Mites. Or, if you want to mingle and see other planes, you can do that too. But ... if you want to sleep in a motel you'd best get crackin'.

  • Best Western (559) 781-7411
  • Holiday Inn Express (800) 345-8082 (new)
  • Motel 6 (559) 781-7600
  • Super 8 (559) 562-5188 (Lindsay, CA 10.2 miles away)
  • Or check out Yahoo.com yellow pages under Porterville, CA.

"See you next month, Michael."

2008-04-09

Back in July of 1998, Ted Teach, N4122 received field approval for a nifty installation of an alternator in his M-18C. Having received many inquiries from admirers over the years, Ted has finally found the time to complete an information package, consisting of sketches, documents and photos, which is now available for downloading from the Mite Site. Ted's package, in PDF format, can be found via the Conversions and Modifications link on our Maintenance Page. Thank you, Ted! 2008-04-06

March, 2008  
 

Those of you who attend WAMM Fly-Ins regularly may recall that Ted Teach of Ohio was expected at the May, 2006 gathering in Porterville but never showed up. We learned later that he made it as far west as New Mexico, then had a landing mishap. Ted used the subsequent rebuild as an opportunity to install some more goodies in his already beautiful Mite, N4122. We are pleased that he has sent some photos for us to share with you. 2008-03-27

Look again. More information has been added to the article about N3165K (below). Jess Hackenberg sent us an interesting e-mail today outlining the history of this Mite, which his father purchased directly from Mooney. 2008-03-17

February 2008  
 

Out of the blue, we've just received some "new" photos of Jess Hackenburg's N3165K, the first we have of this airplane. They were kindly send to us by Job Conger of Springfield, Illinois who is putting together a book on the history of aviation in his home town. To see what he's been up to, have a look at his website: http://www.aeroknow.com Thanks to Bill Larkins for giving Job a heads-up about the Mite Site. 2008-02-24

Perhaps because of our offer to assist, the NASM has gone ahead and produced their own information package for ordering Mite drawings from their archives. It is essentially the same as the one we've been offering, including the order form, list of drawings and additional paperwork, published in PDF format for downloading. The only thing still withheld is the price list, so acquiring copies will still require two submissions in writing. Our pages have therefore been removed and the link on our Maintenance page will now take you to the NASM document. 2008-02-02
January 2008  
 

For those of you not in the e-mail loop, here's a message from WAMM president, Michael Harms:

Hi Guys,

This is advance notice of our May 16-18, 2008 Mite Fly-In in Porterville. Mark your calendars.

And the Vintage Mooney Group will be joining us! They have proposed we all do something more than just show up, like a spot landing contest or "something fun". In the next 5 months we should be able to come up with something that would give us a natural advantage. Like a flour drop (ever try to get that flour bag out of a small "big Mooney" window flap? Or the slowest time around the pattern? Or how many Mooneys can you put in one hangar at the same time? Anyway, start thinking and start planning to attend.

And for your additional advance planning, Porterville will be bring back the Porterville Moonlight Fly-In on the weekend of June 21. This was always a big hit until they stopped having them due to liability insurance costs.  There will be lots and lots of people, airplanes, and food booths.  Maybe we can get a bunch of Mites to show up and all park together.

Won't it be nice to put Winter behind us and play outside with the Mites in the green grass and blue skies again?

Michael

If you wish to make a suggestion for the program or can confirm that you will attend, we'd like to hear from you. Remember, WAMM membership is free and everyone is welcome. 2008-01-23