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I need a upper cowl nose cap for my 150G P/N 0452002-6.

I found a company called: Flying Colors Air Parts in Leesburg, FL that has a used upper cowl with the above PN for $335, which is pretty low compared to other sites I've researched.

Are there are any club members based at or near Leesburg who are familiar with or have had dealings with this company?

Try Aerofairings out of Quebec, Canada. Theirs is a complete nose bowl - top and bottom matched. Perhaps more than you wanted to spend but you get it all matched together, and the exchange rate definitely works in your favor!

http://www.aerofairings.ca/parts.htm

Scroll down the list near the bottom of the 150/152 section and see:

A154- NOSE BOWL ASSY upper/lower section (Matched Units) (C-150 pre1070) $965.00can

Thanks guys. I finally made contact and worked a deal with this company by email.

I'll post later with an assessment. So far this seems like a good place to score reasonably priced used aircraft parts.

I have purchased several parts from them off of ebay and never had a proplem. Everything was as advertised.

I have a half dozen upper cowls for the later model 150s.

I appreciate all the help. Thanks to some of the information here (which I knew I would get) I got Flying Colors agreed to sell me and ship just the nosecap. Total: $217.55.

My FBO queried several of their usual parts sources and one was asking $2,200 for an upper cowl and another $800. Before shipping!

Thanks again to all who helped. Another of the many reasons I'm grateful to be a member here since I bought my plane in 2004!

Flying colors has a flap I would like to get my hands on, but they are asking a pretty penny.

Wow Eric, thanks for sharing! Aerofairings has some great stuff!

I especially liked B136 Winter Front Cowl. Not because we have harsh winters here in TX, but because it LOOKS cool! Never seen one...

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As they should. I have stacks of flaps for Cessnas. If you were local, you could get one from me fairly cheap. Ask me to ship it to you and it would be a different story. Getting it crated would take more than fifty dollars of material and at least a half day of labor; a half day that I don't have available to give away for free. If I was in it for the money, like Flying Colors, that time in acquiring the flap, transporting to my place, storing it in inventory, and then prepping it for shipment to you would also cost a pretty penny.

I've had people complain to me that I was gouging them on an aircraft part, charging $100 for something that they knew I only gave $25 for. "Sure", I tell them. "Only YOU didn't drive three states away to the auction where they were selling them, stand around all day so you could finally buy one for $25, load it in your truck to drive the thousand miles back home, and then store it for two years until somebody needed it. Feel free to go to a salvage company and see what THEY want to charge you."

I have seen the guys from Flying Colors collecting parts in Oklahoma, Texas, and Arizona. They come with a crew of four to five and a large truck. They will stay in a hotel for the better part of a week and put in twelve hour days while there. They know what the parts are worth; what they should pay and what the market will bear. Like Kenny Faeth, they stand behind their sales and will replace or refund should you find a problem with what they send you.

Glad that worked out so well, Robert.

The Pennsylvania Duchess deserves your attention......one sweet gal ya got there.



Jim