Duffy Fainer's BE-77 Beech Skipper for Sale

My Airplane for Sale August, 2011: Beech Skipper N38062 #WA204

Sold! 11-2011

1981 Beechcraft Skipper $22,500

4094TT- 2094 SMO (on Oct 5, 2011) (2400 tbo)

See the pics of the guts of the plane during the last annual

See the most recent engine and airframe log book entries since 2004 (30megs)

Fully IFR certified-w/King-KI204 glideslope, KI-208A-VOR-Loc indicator

- dual nav/com (kx155/kx170/ King KMA-24-Audio panel- Pitot Heat

2 Seater-115hp- carries 300lbs with full fuel (30 gal capacity), (6 gph)
Great time builder, trainer, sightseeing and cross country airplane.
Fresh annual, complete logs, carefully maintained, regularly flown. Everything works. I did my instrument and commercial training in this little airplane, and have flown it from San Diego to Quebec, to BC and Cabo San Lucas. Slowly...but I got there and got the pictures.Flown 4-5 times weekly for 4 years, with oil changes every 25 hours.
Do your private pilot training and instrument training in this airplane.
If you fly 250 (tach) hours a year, with insurance, tie down and maintenence,
your net cost with fuel (@$5.50 per gallon)
will run approx. $40. per hour. (vs:275 hobbs hours in a club rented C-152 =$22,675)
Contact Duffy Fainer (Mongomery Field)
858-673-9848

Fresh annual-4-11 with ELT battery (121.5 ELT)/

Pitot Static Transponder check 7-11/

New side windows-high quality optic acrylic 5-11

New Nose Wheel-10/30/11

new slick magneto- 8-07- both just overhauled 2-11 at 2022tach

New Vaccum Pump 2-11

two new main tires 8-09/ new nose inner tube 2-11 (new tire 7-07)

new battery-8-09

new attitude gyro-4-10/ new directional gyro-9-08

12 Autolite Spark plug w 300 hours each

New #2 Millenium cylinder (9-09) w 450 hours/, just overhauled #3+#4 cylinders 2-11

EGT guage,

New Bruces custom canopy cover/new carpeting

4-08-starter overhaul

250W quartz landing light

5-08 doorlocks &weatherstriping

1/09-wet compass gasket+refill

12-2007 full avionics overhaul and install

3-10 Dynamic Prop Balance

3/10-new brake pads and o ring replacement 3(08)

11-07-cockpit, cowling-flaps-aileron painting

8-09 Alternator brushes replaced

3-10 Every electrical contact removed/cleaned in engine compartment

3-10-six new circuit breaker switches per AD installed in cockpit

10-07-exhaust manifold repaired and inspected

9-08 fuel shutoff valve overhaul

Dual push to talk new switches/PS Engineering intercom

Separate rhiostats for panel lighting and post lighting, plus a cabin dome light

Includes all maintainence manual, parts manual, wiring manuals.

OTHER EQUIPMENT
WING TIP STROBE LIGHTS
HEATED PITOT Rudder Trim
Analog Clock HOBBS HOUR METER
DUAL CONTROL WHEEL with new PUSH-TO-TALK SWITCHES
$425. Bruces' CANOPY COVER-Cowl Plugs

Wikipedia info on the Skipper

AOPA Pilot Magazine article on the Skipper

Some of the places this plane has taken me since June of 2007:

2009 Flight to the Western Cascades

2009 Flight to Baja, all the way to Cabo.

2008 Flight to BC and the San Juan Islands

2007 soloflight from San Diego to Montreal

2007 air to air shots along the La Jolla coastline

General characteristics
* Crew: 1
* Capacity: 1 passenger
* Length: 24 ft (7.3 m)
* Wingspan: 30 ft (9.1 m)
* Height: 6 ft 11.1 in (1.81 m)
* Wing area: 129.8 ft2 (12.1 m2)
* Airfoil: GA(W)-1
Empty weight: 1,100 lb (500 kg)
Useful load: 580 lb (260 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 1,675 lb (760 kg)
Powerplant: 1* Lycoming O-235-L2C flat-4 engine, 115 hp (86 kW)
Performance
Never exceed speed: 143 knots (165 mph, 263 km/h)
* Cruise speed:(this skipper) 95 knots
* Stall speed:
o Clean: 49 knots (56 mph, 91 km/h)
o With full flaps: 47 knots (54 mph, 87 km/h)
Range: 388 nm (719 km) at best economy
Service ceiling: 12,900 ft (3,900 m)
Rate of climb: 720 ft/min (3.67 m/s) 500' in reality
Max wing loading: 12.9 lb/ft2 (62.8 kg/m2)
Minimum power/mass: 0.0685 hp/lb (113 W/kg)

Here's the math for those of you wondering how much it costs to own a little plane. This cost breakdown assumes what I've averaged, with tiedown @125 mo, insurance $460 yearly, annual @ 450, and prop tax @ 190 yearly.

I've spent $42,150 since I paid for and took possesion of that plane. That includes everything from tie down to fuel/oil/parts, and maintenance. Not included are my personal hours, which includes oil changing and spark plug cleaning. This includes about $1500 in voluntary painting costs.

I've logged 1027 hours (hobbs time) in the Skipper. 873 tach hours. (avg 24 per month)
Per HOBBS hour of flying time=$50. Per TACH hour = 64.

If I had rented a 152 at Plus One..hobbs time including the monthly dues

= $67,000. or $81 an hour
net savings= 24,850

carries my folding bike, backpack with camping gear, tent, chair, food, 3 weeks of clothes, computer, skydiving gear, cooler, flight gear, tools, oil, cover, tie downs, and more. Oh yeah, frisbee, funnel and siphon tubing too.

Interior Pics: (the sheepskins, pcas, Icom handheld, Garmin GPS, 2nd cupholder, armrest don't come with the deal)

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