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As much as I would like a light plane, I prefer the creature comforts and good looks of a complete interior and all the bells and whistles. At least that's what I have to say because I'm envious of your lighter weight 140's ;). My 140A weighs 1040lbs, but has a beautiful heavy glossy paint job, heavy pull starter, big Ford alternator, Gill battery, wheel pants, speaker, full interior, 150 seats, Scott 3200 tailwheel etc. I love it even though it's a bit chubby, I just pick longer runways :lol:
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That's a beautiful aircraft
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Josh, that is indeed a beautiful airplane and whoever was the photographer really new his business. Yes, there is a price to pay for being light. I lived most of my life and flew in much higher country and that is how I came to be so weight conscience. A favorite story of mine Is that years ago I built a homemade airplane that would climb through 10,000 feet in 12 seconds! The story is true! I kept my Stits Playboy with a 125 hp Lycoming 0-290-G in a hanger in Leadville, CO and as I remember I only had to climb about 12 feet. The plane had no electrical system of any kind and weighed less that 600 pounds empty. Makes a good story.
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951 lbs for my airplane. Original starter, generator and battery configuration. Transponder and Garmin GNC 250XL Nav/Com. Interior by Lorraine Morris. Fabric wings, painted.

I've run a tank dry a couple of times to absolutely maximize range (okay, I can hear the gasps of indignant astonishment as I write this) and as I recall, the empty tank takes about 11...maybe 11.5 gallons. Something like that. I would guess there is at least 2 maybe 3 gallons total unusable fuel sloshing around in there if you are straight and level. Call it 12 to 18 lbs.

Don't take that to the bank. I'm old and sometimes I don't remember stuff right ;)
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8224 wrote: Tue Aug 30, 2022 4:10 pm Josh, that is indeed a beautiful airplane and whoever was the photographer really new his business. Yes, there is a price to pay for being light. I lived most of my life and flew in much higher country and that is how I came to be so weight conscience. A favorite story of mine Is that years ago I built a homemade airplane that would climb through 10,000 feet in 12 seconds! The story is true! I kept my Stits Playboy with a 125 hp Lycoming 0-290-G in a hanger in Leadville, CO and as I remember I only had to climb about 12 feet. The plane had no electrical system of any kind and weighed less that 600 pounds empty. Makes a good story.
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That's funny Steve! I have the luxury of being based at 500' MSL so density altitude isn't much of a factor around here. Of course if I ever want to go cross country things will change and you'll see me tossing things overboard trying desperately to get in the air!
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Just finished restoring a 46 140 full interior was in it ford alternator, odyssey battery, skytec starter, metalized wings with leading edge landing and taxi lights in both wings, added heated pitot tube, Scott tail wheel, full body paint, and glass panel, hooker harness. 5 quarts oil and fuel drained before weighing from tank dumps. Total weight was 1019.
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1032# in 2004. 998# in 2022.

Still have a vacuum system/pump on the 0-200A to pull when it finally dies so I can put in an AV-30. That and an extra drop down Grimes landing light to get rid of when I figure out an alternative like this.... https://www.aveoengineering.com/downloa ... TL-TLR.pdf (I don't know why I have 2 Grimes lights, came with the plane).
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Did you have your yokes refurbished? If so where.
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tomreneau wrote: Sun Sep 04, 2022 11:23 am Did you have your yokes refurbished? If so where.
Not sure if you are talking to me? If so, no I didn’t restore the yokes, the prior owner did. He is an amazing watercolor artist and owned 80C for 24yrs. He even had the yoke shafts polished at a gun shop.

If I wanted yokes restored, I would get Jeff Tourt to do them.
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