For Sale Piper Apache, perfect multi-time builder

jskibo said:
About to get my CMEL in Tom's at CAD. Wish I had a place to put it and build multi.
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When you going up to Tom's? He's a great guy!! Use Bob for check ride (now $400, if website not updated).
 
I've owned her for about four years. The prop inspection was last done April 2011, there's about 3 years or 100hrs until the next inspection.
 
What kind of take off/landing performance can you get when fairly light (1 smaller pax, couple backpacks, and not much fuel)? I've been considering an Apache lately for time building, but the runways I fly into regularly are gravel and 1,200-2,000', with the longest having trees a couple hundred yards past the end. No problem for my Taylorcraft on big wheels, but I'm not sure about a "light" twin.
 
alaskadrifter said:
What kind of take off/landing performance can you get when fairly light (1 smaller pax, couple backpacks, and not much fuel)? I've been considering an Apache lately for time building, but the runways I fly into regularly are gravel and 1,200-2,000', with the longest having trees a couple hundred yards past the end. No problem for my Taylorcraft on big wheels, but I'm not sure about a "light" twin.
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Yeah, that's not a situation I'd want to be in in a light twin...
 
apache123 said:
More pictures: http://imgur.com/a/DRNpZ

Times: about 800 left, 1800 right, 6000 airframe, based at Waukegan (KUGN). It is an original 150hp Apache.

The annual inspection just finished: compressions good, props good, gear good. I'm not going to fix all the little gotchas and nice-to-fix at annual, so I've set the price at a hard $20,000. If someone wants to buy her at that price just for the two O-320s be my guest and chop her up.
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I feel for you. I had a 160 Apache with all the Geronimo mods. Had about 60K into it. Very nice plane when I bought it. Ended up sitting in my hangar too much when I couldn't burn auto gas in it and gas prices went sky high. Also, plane values dropped like crazy. I ended up stripping the nice avionics out of it and selling it out of annual for 25K a couple of years ago.
 
The 160 can get an auto gas STC as well but you have to use supreme. The problem is finding gas without ethanol in it.
 
Out of a 1000' strip you'd want to treat it like a single and just chop both engines on a failure to be honest. You'd want to have at least 200' minimum above any obstacles to keep going. I've flown her out of some nice grass out of KJOT, 0C8, 0C2. The shortest was about 2000' with powerlines at the end.

Yep, I'm basically trying to reduce the burden of a loan for a Navajo. She's being sold for pretty much the value of the engines.
 
pnwchief22 said:
Let me know if someone wants to go with the Top Prop upgrade after the Hartzell's time out.
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What involved with that? I'm looking at another apache with a Geronimo upgrades on it but still had the hubs, although upgraded to q tip props.
 
It's a package is attempting to get the old hubs & blades off the airframe; the STC / approval paperwork comes with new hub, blades, and spinner. Currently listed for about $20K for a new pair of props matching the 150/160 hp Lycoming. I have a 120 hour set.
 
jskibo said:
Nice plane and price.....

About to get my CMEL in Tom's at CAD. Wish I had a place to put it and build multi.

@ozziecat35 @FlyByWire22 ready to go thirdsies?

C'mon @SteveC I know you're just itching to go slower :)
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Seasonal ownership - I'll take it November - February down here ... jskibo, you take it July-October and find someone else who lives somewhere with good March-June flying. :)
 
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