sold 310 -- now what?

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:

Of the 3968 FBO's nationwide, 3871 have 100LL, 2481 have Jet-A, 29 have
80/87, and 234 have Mogas.

I doubt that many of those actually have 80/87. It hasn't been made for
some
time now.

They advertise it, I'd hope them have it. Probably are some rather old
stocks?

I wonder how many are carrying mogas as a more recent inventory item.

As I mentioned earlier, I'm watching GAMI's PRISM system. They've been
claiming "STC is coming soon" for over two years now. If it does what they
say it will, I'd love to be an investor in their operation.


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Matt
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Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

Matt Barrow wrote:

They advertise it, I'd hope them have it.

I agree with the sentiment, but I wouldn't take a list compounded by Airnav as
an indication that these airports are advertising that they have 80/87. I
suspect that Airnav's info is somewhat out-of-date for many fields.

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:

They advertise it, I'd hope them have it.

I agree with the sentiment, but I wouldn't take a list compounded by
Airnav as
an indication that these airports are advertising that they have 80/87. I
suspect that Airnav's info is somewhat out-of-date for many fields.

And they say so regarding fuel prices. Each FBO has a date of the last time
the information was updated. Many are fairly current (a couple weeks
(appropriate when prices are fairly stable), up to over a year or more.

On the other hand, the airport data is a current as the FAA data 9with a lag
for processing and updating it seems (currently, Nov.25 th).

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Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

G.R. Patterson III wrote:

Matt Barrow wrote:

They advertise it, I'd hope them have it.


I agree with the sentiment, but I wouldn't take a list compounded by Airnav as
an indication that these airports are advertising that they have 80/87. I
suspect that Airnav's info is somewhat out-of-date for many fields.

Here's some data from the ATA-100 APT.txt file dated 11/04/2004. This appears to
be the source that airnav.com uses. For 20329 APT records in the file, the
number of airports reporting selling each kind of fuel is as follows:

80 - GRADE 80 GASOLINE (RED): 275
100 - GRADE 100 GASOLINE (GREEN): 348
100LL - GRADE 100LL GASOLINE (LOW LEAD BLUE): 3524
115 - GRADE 115 GASOLINE: 23
A - JET A - KEROSENE, FREEZE POINT -40C: 2051
A1 - JET A-1 - KEROSENE, FREEZE POINT -50C: 52
A1+ - JET A-1 - KEROSENE, WITH ICING INHIBITOR,
FREEZE POINT -50C: 213
B - JET B - WIDE-CUT TURBINE FUEL,
FREEZE POINT -50C: 18
B+ - JET B - WIDE-CUT TURBINE FUEL WITH ICING INHIBITOR
FREEZE POINT -50C: 51
MOGAS - AUTOMOTIVE GASOLINE: 413

Note that many airports sell more than one kind of fuel.
No distinction is made among AIRPORT, GLIDERPORT, STOLPORT, etc.

No guarantee of accuracy, of course, but I know of no better data. Many of the
numbers seem low to me.

Dave

Dave Butler wrote:

100 - GRADE 100 GASOLINE (GREEN): 348

This number alone should be highly suspect. When was
the last time you saw 100/130?

"Robert M. Gary" writes:

How often do guys like us fly to airports that sell Jet-A though? The
article that "Pilot" wrote up mentioned that most U.S. orders were for
the Cont. engine version. I guess in the E.U. jet-A is more common.

But....Jet A will be around in 10 years. Leaded avgas....?


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David Lesher wrote:

"Robert M. Gary" writes:


How often do guys like us fly to airports that sell Jet-A though? The
article that "Pilot" wrote up mentioned that most U.S. orders were for
the Cont. engine version. I guess in the E.U. jet-A is more common.


But....Jet A will be around in 10 years. Leaded avgas....?

Yes.

"Newps" wrote in message
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David Lesher wrote:

"Robert M. Gary" writes:


How often do guys like us fly to airports that sell Jet-A though? The
article that "Pilot" wrote up mentioned that most U.S. orders were for
the Cont. engine version. I guess in the E.U. jet-A is more common.


But....Jet A will be around in 10 years. Leaded avgas....?

Yes.

Maybe. But at what price? At this rate the $100 hamburger will have morphed
into a $250 White Castle burger.

"Robert M. Gary" writes:

How often do guys like us fly to airports that sell Jet-A though?

Checked my logs against AirNav: during 2004, we landed at 43 separate
airports and Jet-A was available at all but four (RPX, AZ82, 00V, & F14).


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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO