Want to Buy Maule MX7-180A

racemey said:
Father-in-law had a ground loop/propstrike/rough landing. Put new legs, prop and overhauled motor in it and sold it after owning it for 2 years. I think we paid $60k for it with a mid time engine back in '04 and sold it after the "incident" in '06 for $68k. I would love to get back into one at some point. So much fun. If I recall correctly, the 180B with the c/s prop has a higher max gross and I would have liked to have that extra climb performance, but the fixed pitch was just fine most of the time. Having just replaced the prop on my 182 due to a corroded hub I can certainly understand wanting to avoid any extra expenses of the c/s prop. Good luck with the search!
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The B model has a gross of 2500lbs, the A model is 2400lbs. I like the A model because of the fixed-pitch. Less to go wrong, and for my purposes with one person mainly, I can't think of anywhere in my skill range that I'd need the 180B.
MX7-180As listed for prices in the 60-70k range go quick. I keep getting beat and am not fast enough apparently.
 
Roger Roger said:
That's interesting, in 135 other than scheduled overhauls prop maintenance is pretty limited to dressing blades and greasing hubs (on Hartzells).
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Yeah, I was pretty surprised. We sent it in for a re-seal/overhaul which was overdue by a few years, but it had been greased/checked at every annual and seemed fine. The prop shop said it was going to be $8100 to overhaul the old one (hartzell) due to having to source a serviceable hub, but a new prop was only a few hundred more so it was a no brainer on replacement. Plane based in Sacramento valley in a hangar so I didn't think corrosion was an issue but it apparently was.
 
racemey said:
Yeah, I was pretty surprised. We sent it in for a re-seal/overhaul which was overdue by a few years, but it had been greased/checked at every annual and seemed fine. The prop shop said it was going to be $8100 to overhaul the old one (hartzell) due to having to source a serviceable hub, but a new prop was only a few hundred more so it was a no brainer on replacement. Plane based in Sacramento valley in a hangar so I didn't think corrosion was an issue but it apparently was.
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Probably the calendar time that got you, we cycle through them so fast that they don't have time to corrode. Blades every couple times and we have had to do a hub eeevery once in a while usually do to sketchy work previously or corrosion on a seaplane.
 
Stinger said:
I've been on his website regularly, saw a few days ago he posted a couple Maules for sale. He's probably the person that knows the most about everything Maule related I know of.
There's also Wup Winn from BackCountryConnection.com. Also very knowledgable, working on posting a couple MX7-180A's on there. I knew of one of them, and if it wasn't in Alaska I'd probably do it. The other is more expensive even with a high time engine.
The one person I haven't been through is Rautgunde at Maule Flight.
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I think that one is in Anchorage. I could go take pics and stuff for you if you wanted.
 
z987k said:
I think that one is in Anchorage. I could go take pics and stuff for you if you wanted.
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The one I know is in Fairbanks. N30543. White with orange/reddish stripes. On floats currently. Has skis and ABWs included.
 
Stinger said:
The B model has a gross of 2500lbs, the A model is 2400lbs. I like the A model because of the fixed-pitch. Less to go wrong, and for my purposes with one person mainly, I can't think of anywhere in my skill range that I'd need the 180B.
MX7-180As listed for prices in the 60-70k range go quick. I keep getting beat and am not fast enough apparently.
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The difference in efficiency on a constant speed prop makes them very worth it IMO. Unless you're only doing long x-c flights in and out of airports where a cruise prop is a possibility(which if that's the case a tricycle gear airplane makes way more sense), you lose a ton of speed to a fixed pitch prop. I have a friend with my exact airplane and the difference between us when they bought it was a cruise pitch vs a climb pitch and it was 25mph difference or 100 miles more range for the same MP setting. But a cruise prop is incredibly impractical here.
 
z987k said:
Ha! Thanks, though that is incredibly overpriced, I did find something in July.
Also there's about a 100% chance the cam in that thing is shot. You'd probably be looking at a rebuild in the next 3-400 hours. 250 hours since 1986 in a lycoming is a very bad thing.
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I thought the same thing about the extremely low amount of hours.
Last month I bought an MX7-180A too!
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Stinger said:
I'm looking for an MX7-180A. I've tried to buy two of them in the last month (a 1993 and a 1994), but both times someone else has put down a deposit before I can. This week the 1994 one was listed for one day before I offered to make a deposit, and he had already accepted an offer.
Sites I check regularly: barnstormers, trade-a-plane, controller, and MauleAirTexas.
So if you know of any year and any condition (hopefully good) MX7-180A for sale, or one that you think the owner might think about selling, let me know!
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Just curious... why do you want a Maule?
I've flown hundreds of hours in them delivering them all over for buyers and teaching those buyers how to fly them.
My opinion... the world's only Part 23 certified home-built. ;)
 
Crop Duster said:
Just curious... why do you want a Maule?
I've flown hundreds of hours in them delivering them all over for buyers and teaching those buyers how to fly them.
My opinion... the world's only Part 23 certified home-built. ;)
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Tailwheel, side-by-side 4 place, big baggage door, easy and cheap(ish) to work on, company is still in production and they're very easy to talk to and ask questions whenever you want, family friend has owned multiple Maules over the years and is well-known in the Maule world.
Skywagons are way more expensive and heavier. Super Cubs are expensive and smaller. Anything else that's comparable is old and out of production or experimental.
 
Stinger said:
Tailwheel, side-by-side 4 place, big baggage door, easy and cheap(ish) to work on, company is still in production and they're very easy to talk to and ask questions whenever you want, family friend has owned multiple Maules over the years and is well-known in the Maule world.
Skywagons are way more expensive and heavier. Super Cubs are expensive and smaller. Anything else that's comparable is old and out of production or experimental.
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Yup. No one makes anything close to a maule except experimental. Which is where I went.

On the right - Bushmaster 200.
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Stinger said:
How do you like it? How's it compare to a Maule?
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It's not as short coupled as a pacer or Maule. I'm not sure it takes off any shorter, though I did just get a 82" prop for it, which should help. It can haul a great load, and I like that I can do anything I want to it. I think a Maule would be faster in cruise because this thing has such a massive wing.
 
z987k said:
It's not as short coupled as a pacer or Maule. I'm not sure it takes off any shorter, though I did just get a 82" prop for it, which should help. It can haul a great load, and I like that I can do anything I want to it. I think a Maule would be faster in cruise because this thing has such a massive wing.
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Put a moose in it and I bet it gets off shorter than a Maule or Pacer.
 
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