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1965 Cessna 150F

I have a buddy who used to fly with us in the Keystone Flight and then went off to fly for the Navy! He's now selling 22S which has flown with the Keystone Flight (and been to Clinton) since 2007 with a former owner, Tom Orndorf who was in this club but "flew west" after a battle with cancer. So, hate to see the aircraft depart Carlisle but I'd rather see it fly than deteriorate on the ramp while Ben deploys for years on carriers.

So, I'll help him get it to a good owner! He's asking $30K.

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Equipped for VFR Day/Night
4311.77 TT // Continental O-200-A // TSOH 1411.5
Prop TSOH 87.7 (New prop)
ADS-B Out (New GDL-82 ADS-B/GPS kit)
Mode S Transponder
Comes w/ wheel fairings
Recently replaced:
Rudder Cables
Brake Rotors
Battery
Nose Strut
Wingtip Fairings
Paint touched-up (See attached photos for original two-stripe design)
I bought this bird in 2021 and flew cross-countries nearly weekly until 2023. It was a great time-builder while I worked on my private, instrument, and commercial ratings. It's always been covered while tied down outside. And although the cockpit isn't as big as the C172, I fit just fine at 6'4". At ~6 gph, it's the cheapest way to build time and/or commute.

I let the annual expire in Jan 2023 before I joined the Navy and moved out of state. I was hoping I could keep flying it while in the Navy, but don't have the time. It's yours to either get an annual at the Carlisle Airport (N94, Pennsylvania) and fly it home, or drop the wings and trailer it home.

Email me with for questions, more pics, offers, etc. at bc.av8r@gmail.com

Sounds like a great plane for someone. It'll make a person's dreams come true. Good luck to your friend! I hope someone snaps this one up, then joins the club. How many C150s in good shape are out there for the price of a used Acura?

Thanks - the owner is going through Naval Aviator training at Pensacola and simply does not have the time to own a plane right now.

This is a solid project plane.

I bought a semi-project (flyable) airplane in Florida a decade ago and it did not pass the next annual, due to corrosion in the propeller flange. Then, we started finding other corrosion in the airframe that made the project much bigger than anticipated. I am still working on returning it to flight.

I don't mean to cast aspersions on your friend's airplane for sale, but he'd assuredly get more interest in it if it had a current annual.

Over 120 "watching' this one on Ebay - Imma thinking ONE will bite at $30K!

I'll add a dissenting note. Fresh annual on an advertisement almost invariably means the annual was pencil whipped or nearly so. Owners don't fix stuff on airplanes they are about to sell. I've represented some new owners who were excited to buy a "fresh annual" airplane because they could fly it for a year, and didn't do prebuy exams. They spent a LOT of money making those airplanes airworthy. I saw two "fresh overhaul" engines that had logbooks that said they'd been run 2 hours on a dyno. However, they didn't even have ignition harnesses.

Do a careful prebuy, no matter what. If you buy it, have the tech who did the prebuy do the extra work to make it an annual. Peace of mind.

Mike, is the plane still on the market?

Denny, YES.

I think it failed to sell on Ebay.

The seller is motivated as he is a classic "airport kid" who grew up flying and is now going through NAVAL AVIATOR FLIGHT TRAINING in Pensacola, Florida.

I knew the previous owner well...Tom Orndorf, who was in this club and flew with me to Clinton one year - he "Flew West" a few years ago as the cancer got him and I helped his wife sell the plane to Ben Cook, a good kid who flew the plane as often as he could, commuting from Carlisle, PA to Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA.

Best wishes, Denny! I hope the airplane finds a good home and does not rot on the ramp! It deserves better!

Some photos of the owner and I flying before he purchased 22S, then Tom and then some of the plane flying here with the KEYSTONE FLIGHT.

Nice seeing a picture of "Dad" Cressman.

I miss that old buzzard!

No kidding....... a good, good man he was.

We've lost so many good friends here over the years.

Indeed - we have lost 6 from our KEYSTONE FLIGHT group in the last 16 years....some of their planes live on and we see them around.

We have also had some retirements from flying where folks have moved on and left flying...both losses are sad but part of life.

The other element we have lost is AIRPORTS. We've had about a dozen in our local area close with more losses every year as the smaller turf fields fade from the sectionals!

Your most expensive annual will always be the first annual with a new A&P/IA or a new to you airplane with your IA. No A&P/AI is going to risk signing off on an old airplane that another AI signed things off on. He's going to insist on everything being right before he signs off on it.

So a strategy I've used in the past is - I have my IA do the per-buy and they basically do a full annual inspection. I make it clear to the seller that this is what I intend to do and...I will pay them their asking price minus anything my AI has to fix, repair or replace before signing off on it. If the seller won't agree to this, he is not confident in the condition of the airplane - I know I don't want their airplane.

Any pictures of the panel and the interior Mike ?