rlaird
 
  
  Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 373 Location: Houston
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				 Posted: Wed May 11, 2016 7:22 pm    Post subject: MkIIIC for sale | 
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				FYI:  My Kolb is still for sale.  It will be on Barnstormers tomorrow, but wanted to give everyone one last shot at it.
 I can no longer provide the TLC needed for it
  and I won't be around long, so I need to sell it quickly, so I'm putting it up at a bargain basement price:
 
 MkIIIC -- N# 553RL  (certified as an eLSA)
 
 234 hrs TT Airframe, Engine & Prop
 100hp Rotax 912ULS
 Always hangared
 2 six-gallon tanks
 Electric fuel pump
 Airspeed gauge
 EIS with engine info
 BRS Chute (expired)
 Intercom
 Odyssey battery
 3-blade Warp Drive prop
 hydraulic disc brakes
 Thomason stainless steel exhaust (no springs needed)
 
 Photos:
 
 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4298307717.41.500807717&type=1&l=f368fa4ce6
 Video showing the unfolding/folding of this MkIII:
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGblkR8cdYE
 
 Price:  $17,000
 
 This price includes a fully enclosed aluminum trailer.  The trailer has four brand-new tires on it, with a spare.  The lighting has been re-wired and has been checked and works fine.  The trailer jack is both electric and manual and works fine.  It is ready to be towed away.  Extra photos of the trailer are available. The price includes the trailer, but if you don't need the trailer, the price will be the same.
 The plane is located near Waller, TX (37XA : Skydive Houston).
 
 Full-disclosure issues:
 
 I have not flown it much in the past couple of years, so it does need some TLC.  Currently, the gap seal needs repair or replacement.  The other issue is that the original builder did a sucky job with the hydraulic brake lines, and right when my life fell apart I had just torn up the aluminum floorboard to get at the brake system (he riveted the entire floor!); I never finished the brake repair or replaced the floorboard. Bottom line: the plane flies very well, but without brakes you'll need to land it on grass until you get the brakes repaired.  I have flown it and landed on my grass landing strip and used the grass taxiways without any issues with stopping. (To be specific, the discs, pads, lines are all good; it just needs a reservoir to be added, connect the lines and then an air purge.  It will also need a new floorboard.)
 
 If you are handy and can address these minor issues, this would be a great (and easy)
  
 project.  But i
 f you aren't into experimental aviation maintenance tasks, then this might not be the plane for you.
 
 If I can't sell it in the 
 next two
  weeks, it will go back into hibernation mode until I get back to town (at which time, I will try again to sell it).
 
 
 Please contact me off-list.
 
 Contact info:
 
 Robert Laird
 [url=tel:713-581-4976]713-581-4976[/url]
 rlaird(at)cavediver.com (rlaird(at)cavediver.com)
 
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Robert Laird
 
formerly: MkIIIc w/ 912ULS  &  Gyrobee
 
current:  Autogyro Cavalon w/ 914ULS
 
Houston, TX area
 
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