I bid on one of the 2005 hurricane damaged Aztec that had
engines at 650 and 850 hours. My thinking was swaping
the engines out with mine and selling the cores or overhauling
mine and swapping them back.

Th hangar door collapsed on the airframe and damaged all the
flying surfaces and bent the props.. It also knocked out the
windshied and I assume there would have been water damage
in the cockpit.

I think I would have made out on the engines, but buying them
unseen was a little scary. It would have also been a lot of work
and effort to relocate and store it. But it would be nice to have a
personal parts pool to draw from :-)

Ronnie


"Jim Burns" wrote in message
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"Ronnie" wrote in message
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He I have have been talking about buying a core
engine and overhauling it under the watchful eye of a local
A&P to gain some experience, and then installing it on my
Aztec, Then overhaul the removed engine, swap once
again, and overhaul the remaining engine. I get two overhauled
engines without having the airplane grounded during the process
and a third for a spare or for sale.

Anybody here have a run-out IO-540C4B5 for sale?

Ronnie

I've had that same idea, IF, I could be made comfortable with the core
engine. Maybe if you do yours, I'll snag your old engine...we could have
a
C4B5 rotational pool. A couple months ago, there were two C4B5's on Ebay
for sale. There were also a few that sold at Earle Aircrafts Dispersal
Auction. We lost a good Aztec parts source with that one.

Jim