Navion Parts Availability

Margy

Jay Honeck wrote:

Just curious: Where *were* they stored, Ron?

They were stored by whoever happened to own them at the time (until now the type
certificate and the parts always belonged to one owner). The last place they
were stored was in Ohio, before that Texas I think.



And who the heck was paying rent on nice, dry, buildings to store old airplane
parts?

Whoever had the type certificate at the time.

And how come no one knew about them? (This is starting to sound like a
Howard Hughes-style story...)
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Well, the owners of the type certificates up to now had the idea that they would
build Navions, so this was factory stock, not parts available. As far as I can
tell there was no real inventory of the parts. The guy who is working on our
plane bought the whole load and he figures he should have them inventoried
within the year (there are LOTS of parts). I've seen boxes and boxes of parts
and the cardboard on the boxes looked good, so I would guess they haven't seen
water.

Margy