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Selling a Stratus ES Transponder
$1450

Greats transponder! I’ve got the ESG version in my 152.

*sigh* so here’s how I got this thing- I’ve got this one because I threw in money with a local guy buying some used avionics from a wrecked airplane (tornado last summer) thinking it was an ESG…it was not. I spent $1700 on this transponder that I couldn’t use because we misunderstood which version needed GPS and which didn’t. Sooooo I’m a dummy and I’ve had this now for a couple months on my desk in the house as a glaring reminder to check the tag and websites 600 times prior to buying something.

On the plus side- we have had it plugged in and working, it just has a flag for “no GPS signal” because well, we don’t have a GPS in my 152…but I have the ESG version and love the thing! It’d be an amazing upgrade to any 150/152, spend the $300 (still ahead by like $1000) on the 3i ADSB receiver and you have ADSB in & out all in one package.

So, $1450 is my asking price, I hangar in Beatrice (KBIE) and could fly out to meet you if you’re close or wrap it up real secure and ship it. I’m also attending the Fly-In and can bring it with me!

Photo in the airplane is my ESG version with the 3i ADSB receiver (it’s hidden ontop of my glove box behind the panel) for my ADSB in & out stuff, but that way you can see the screen and how it looks in an airplane

Thanks and I hope you got a slight chuckle out of someone being too excited to read the fine print and messing up…

OMG, you couldn’t have posted this last week? Just pitched in $1000 towards a new one last week for a 120 with no GPS. Should be here today.

Fudge crackers. I’m sorry!

If someone wanted a GPS to drive this, I have a Garmin 400W receiver, tray, and two data cards for $2500. I'm taking a $1000 loss on buying this when the Eclipse jet fleet was upgrading and never getting around to installing it in one of my airplanes. That's $2500 for a GPS receiver with WAAS capability that's certified for ADSB and precision GPS approach.

But isn’t this the one that doesn’t communicate with a gps, hence Cameron selling a week too late?

This one DOES communicate with the GPS. The ESG doesn’t communicate via the GPS. Hahaha this is exactly how I got all backwards and bought the wrong one.

How I’ve remembered it-
ES- needs the external GPS input

ESG- has the G therefore doesn’t need a GPS cause it has it’s own GPS chip built in


So I was a week late to have you do the same thing I did…which neither of us want.

This is all very confusing. I hate avionics. But for the same price or less than the new stratus I could have had a 400w too. Facepalm. Again.

It is. I moonlight (work one day a week) at the local Avionics shop helping do minor maintenance and the owner tries to explain to me all the different Garmin GPS, displays, autopilot servos, etc and usually I’m rolling my eyes at the end with a laugh…it all goes over my head. I’m a turbine guy so avionics aren’t my specialty and probably never will be…but I’m with you! Looking at the 400W I’m going “hey maybe I keep the ES, buy the 400W and get the other gauges to make my 152 IFR capable plus then I can add the Trio autopilot someday and have a really overly capable 152!”…then my wife nudges me back to reality

Nearly everybody thinks you need a GI-106A indicator with the Garmin 400 and 500 series, but the manual has a pretty good list of alternate GS indicators that also work with their units. King KI-109 and KI-525 indicators are pretty dang cheap on the used market, shaving another $1000 - $1500 off the cost of making a 150/152 fully IFR capable. Where I live in Arizona is either severe VFR or don't dare fly IFR monsoon season thunderstorms, but SoCal often has a marine layer for IFR or marginal VFR. Since I need to go into and out of Hawthorne and Santa Monica, I'm putting 400Ws into all of my aircraft. With a total equipment cost of less than $3500, why wouldn't I?