$1100 project on ebay

NC74392

NC74392

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I was "cruisair-ing" ebay and came across this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/221687882793?item=221687882793&viewitem=&sspagename=ADME:SS:SS:US:3160&vxp=mtr
Opening bid is a mere $500. Buy it now for $1100.
Would LOVE to have the stack of drawings!
 
when I see all that rust on the airframe... it makes me very suspicious about the condition of anything there.

But Dangerous.. I agree... the pile of papers stamped Production Plans might be
very worthwhile.
 
Being a Bellanca nut, and not wanting to see something maybe lost forever, I contacted the Ebay seller and asked about just buying the prints. He said that they would go with the project, but that if I would pay for it, he would copy them all. Not having any idea what they were, I said sure. Well, a couple of hundred dollars later I have 29 factory (copies) wing prints. You could build a wing from scratch with these. They are readable, but probably not good enough for another generation of copies. The one I found the most interesting was about alternate methods of laminating spars. That explains why I have seen some odd spars that I thought were not legal, but apparently they were. What am I going to do with these??? Hell!, I dont know, but saving Bellanca information seemed like the correct thing to do. I think I remember Dan saying that the wing drawings were available, so I may have just duplicated already available info. OH WELL, it is all fun. ______Grant.
 
I would think having a set of prints could be invaluable.

Mine has a doubler on the spar, and what appears to be an engineer's print drawn on graph paper along with a 337. Not sure how common that was with the cruisairs, but my local IA said it's pretty comon in general aviation. It's pretty cool to see stuff hand drawn on graph paper. Almost unheard of in the world I live in.
 
I have one Bellanca wing with a doubler on the outer 2/3 of the wing, and it is logged with a 337 as a repair of a spar. That is perfectly legal under certain conditions, but probably not easy or even legal now. The feds dont like to make things easy. ______Grant.
 
My right wing was repaired at the factory around 1955. She was groundlooped right, hit a runway light and the right gear folded outwards smashing into the wing. It has what appears to be a skin doubler in the area of the repair. No idea what lies beneath, but being a factory repair, I'm pretty comfortable with it.

BTW, does the Viking formed leading edge (inboard, forward of the walkway) fit the Cruisair? I'd like to replace the skin there. It's cracked. Already rebuilt the walkway inside the wing so I assume it cracked when the walkway innards were damaged.
 
The shape is the same, and the Viking skin is a little thicker, which is good, since mine is badly cracked in that area from people pushing on the leading edge. From what I have heard, you had better be sitting down when they read the price to you. You can make a jig, and steam bend the correct thickness ply without too much trouble. I would use the Viking thickness for the extra strength. Let us know what the factory wants for the piece? ______Grant.
 
I bought some leading edge plywood from Alexandria a few years ago when I took on a Harley ( I won!). I don't recall that it was too exorbitant considering the work saved.
Larry Lowenkron
 
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