This is a great series. He obtained a "free" Cessna 401 that had been siting around for 15 years. Full of birds nests, mice and all manner of critters. 

The deal with the owner was that if he can get the engines running he can have it for free. Bit of a weird deal, given that I would think it was MORE valuable if the engines were running but there you go.

Well worth a watch. Think there's been about six episodes so far. Did he get Both engines started? I wont spoil it for you. 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 7, 20224 yr by martin-w

I've watched the first three 'episodes' thus far. It seems that someone was trying to screw up the deal that was made.

Oh yes that's right. Not sure of the details but looks like a third party was trying to put a spanner in the works.

That turns out to be resolved though.

Really interesting those big Continental engines. Huge pistons. Not often you get to see someone working on them and attempting to bring them back to life after 15 years.

It has been an interesting series of videos.

Been watching this from day one and donated to the fund for it. I pointed out some time ago that if every one of his 440 thousand-plus subscribers donates just one Dollar, that'll be more than enough to get it airborne again, being that it would be getting on for half a million Dollars.

And it will cost a fair bit to fix up, because for one thing, the original owner of it stopped flying it years when an airworthiness directive decreed that it would have to have its wing spars reinforced to remain airworthy. At the time, I think that work would have cost about seventy thousand Dollars to do and the owner didn't have that cash to hand, so it got parked up and left for 15 years. It'll be way more than seventy thousand to get that work done nowadays, and because it sat for so long, pretty much everything on the thing will have to be torn down and checked too, so realistically, you'd probably be looking at about a quarter of a million Dollars to get the thing back into good condition and flyable. Having said that, because so many people enjoy this video series and want to see the thing fly again, the funding they all provide will almost certainly mean that it does fly again, not forgetting that many people and companies have also offered help for free, including the donation of hangar space to get the thing inside to be worked on.

It's remarkable how many people are pulling for this thing to fly again; it's something really special that this has captured such support.

 

It is nice to see these planes being saved.   There are  couple of other similar shows on Youtube rebuiling airplanes and it is good to see.   Jimmies World is another channel that is great to watch.

Edited March 8, 20224 yr by harrry

2 hours ago, Chock said:

you'd probably be looking at about a quarter of a million Dollars to get the thing back into good condition and flyable.

 

I wouldn't be surprised. 

If it makes it all the way, it will be fantastic to see it flying again with a nice paint job. 

 

Anyone knows which airport this is?

Its in Coatesville Pennsylvania apparently. Don't know which airport.

The 401 is coming along nicely, not far away from a paint job.

 

 

 

 

On 4/2/2023 at 6:43 PM, Krakin said:

Anyone knows which airport this is?

KMQS - Chester County G O Carlson Airport according to Following.