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I've been in touch with a guy from Texas selling a 1978 180HP 152 Aerobat taildragger. This is an unusual airplane, and likely the highest performance 150-152 money can buy. He's asking between 36,900 and 38,900 depending on whether or not you want the DME and a second Nav/Com that are currently installed.

It caught my attention as both a hotrod and a fair price for this combination. The only negative I can see is that the airplane doesn't have long range tanks.

We'll be running this airplane in our classifieds starting Monday. In the meantime if you just can't stand to wait, you can see the airplane by searching the club photo gallery for N7380L. The seller's name is Beau King, he can be reached via email [email]BeauSKing@aol.com.[/email]

That's SWEET!!!!!! I just need 3 bales of money. I wonder what the TTAF and TSMOH is and if it has NDH?
Bengie Phillips

The club photo page indicates NDH, but I didn't see the airframe hours you refer to. I have been emailing the guy a little bit and don't remember that part. When I owned my 150/150 it served as a trainer for the first 1800 hours, then at TBO it was converted and sold into private ownership, so even when I bought it, it only had something like 2700 ttaf. It's possible to have your cake and eat it too.

Good, but what about the useful load? Did the gross weight increase?

For about that money, I can get a good used Citabria and for about 5 - 10,000 more, a Decathelon.

I think it would be relatively safe to assume that if you can get the doors to close, that this bird will fly!! At least for the couple of hours that you have fuel for!!

Yup...this is the ACT conversion with 1760 GW increase. Let's not get into the 150/150 or 180/150 GW controversy as it has been a horse thoroughly beaten. The bottom line is, the planes perform like a hyper-active supercub well beyond the allowed GW and while many make the test-pilot argument, I have yet to hear of adverse consquences of these operations as long as CG calculations are respected. There is arguments over insurance and all else but the fact remains....I MISS MY 150/150 and had I to do it again, I would have kept it, repainted it, put in a GNS430 and audio panel, maybe swapped in a Powerflow exhaust (field approval of course) and screamed around all the Oregon/Idaho/Montana short strips I could find grinning like a cheshire cat stumbled into a vat of catnip. Oh...and like I showed the Alvord group...I don't need no "schtinkin tail wheel" cause with the judicious use of throttle and brake, she will taxi to a full stop on mains only. Only thing I couldn't get her to do is backup....but maybe that was next <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Oh...my Cardinal is for sale for anyone with a 150/150 wanting to trade up to a 4 seater....

SHHHHHHHH Jeff!! Somebody may actually take you up on it! And just the thought of you without an airplane????? Horrors!!

Oh! wait a minute! you said TRADE????? Well, OK! I might accept that!!

The airplane would be virtually usless to many pilots without LR tanks...but for a modest fee they can be installed...I'd estimate around $5k. If that 180 conversion is at all recent it most likely has the 1760 lb gross weight change.

A few years ago my wife and I decided to buy a new car. An SUV would suit our needs best. Drove several small ones such as Ford Escape, etc. A Lexus dealer was handy so I wanted to drive a Lexus RX300 just for grins. Man was THAT a mistake. Suddenly everything else we had driven seemed unacceptable. We wound up getting a Toyota Sequoia. That Lexus test drive cost us an additiona $25k. What I'm getting at is that sometimes it's a lot better to just be happy with what you have and wonder what it would be like to fly (drive, own, etc.) something more upscale and thereby save yourself tons of money or frustration.

But gosh...I sure would like to fly that 180 hp taildragger. Wouldn't you? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Pretty easy to say from somebody who already has a 150/150 TD!!

Wasn't that 180/150 in the last issue of Trade a Plane?

It's a pretty bird! Wish it had LR tanks though...