MoGas Long Term Test: 5000 gallons and counting...

BTW, how many out there are aware that 80 octane unleaded avgas used to
be available, back in the 40s and 50s?

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Actually I think it was available up into the mid to late 70s...

80/88, and it was colored Red...

BT

BTIZ wrote:

Actually I think it was available up into the mid to late 70s...

80/88, and it was colored Red...


Red gas was available in some places until fairly recently
(historically speaking). My airport was selling it right up until
2002.

Oddly enough, I saw some red gas the other day. My tiedown
neighbor owns a 150 that never flies. Every few years, he spends
several thousand on an annual and maintenance, then ends up not flying.
The cycle repeats every other year.

Just the other day he had a team of A&Ps and IA surrounding the plane
on the ramp, getting it ready to fly again. He's finally selling it.
When he sampled the fuel and it came out red colored, everyone on the
ramp just busted out laughing. We figured he had the last surviving
example of 80/87 aviation gas in the country. Too bad such rarity
doesn't make his ramp queen worth any more :-(

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)


John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

I got my last tankful of 80/87 at RBL about November of last year,
awhile after the last refiner stopped producing it. It had become a
rarity over the last ten years or so - you had to know where to go to
get it.

David Johnson