Description:

This is a Glasair amateur build aircraft. It's essentially a Glasair II, but we call it a Glasair "One and One-Half" because it started out as a Glasair One and turned into a Glasair Two. (It has the GI wing, horizontal stab and cowl but the better GII fuselage, firewall, rudder.) My airplane partner and I built it, maintain it and have been blessed to fly it over the past 23 years. We've accumulated 3900 hours flying it over almost all the lower 48 states in all sorts of weather. (Well, not in hail. But we have seen 1/2 inch of mixed ice.) It's stood the test of time — which is what you want in an "experimental" airplane. (And we continually modify it to make it even better and more reliable. For example, recently we had custom steel bushings made for the nose gear to stop them from wearing out every 2000 hours!) As my airplane partner is now more than 80 years old, it's time to find a good home for her baby.

Avionics:

Notice that the Instruments are 3 high.
We basically stuffed a Glasair 3 panel in a Glasair 2.
(Lots of room for glass.)

• King KX-165 NAV/COM w/glideslope
• King KX-155 NAV/COM w/glideslope
  w/ after market DVOR
• Sigma Tek IU-445 HSI (internally lit)
  coupled to AP
• King KT-76A transponder with
  ACK altitude encoder
• King KN-64 DME
• WX-8 Stormcope
  modified to look 360 degrees
• King KR-87 ADF
• King KMA-24 audio panel & MB w/
  Ergonomic voice warning system
• KLN-88 LORAN, coupled to A/P with annunciators.
  Can be replaced with KLN-90A (but not pin-for-pin)
• S-TEC System 30 (single-axis, roll) autopilot,
  coupled to HSI (Can be converted to two axis with
  additional circuit board + servo.)
• Dual Altimeters
• 4-probe EGT/CHT (GEM 602)
• Swiftronics Fuel Flow/Totalizer
  (Flowscan transducer - remarkably accurate)
• ACK ELT
• Flightcom intercom
  built in to overhead console
• King Avionics cooling fan

Interior:

• Real cowhide leather with cloth inserts for comfort
• Confor foam for comfort and safety
• Full fabric sides with soundproofing
• Seat cushion layering accommodates various people sizes
• Larger luggage area from angled rear bulkhead
• Aerox oxygen. 13 cu ft bottle
• Note: Although this is the new GII fuselage, it sits on an old GI wing. That means there is no 2" joggle in the wing's rear spar shear web.
  And we set the angle of the seat back more vertical from factory recommendation, which we think is more comfortable, but results in less headroom. Both these mean that our cockpit is not as roomy as a Glasair II Super-Stretch.
  (On the other hand, it also means you won't have the aft CG problem that some of the Stretch II's have.) I'm 6 feet tall and I fit comfortably. But in the winter, when the Confor foam seats are hard (at first), the top of my headset brushes against the top of the canopy.So if you're taller than 6 feet, you won't be happy in this plane.
  (You could always reglass the seat back to a lower angle if you really wanted to.)

Extra Goodies:

• Official factory Glasair canopy cover
• Custom telescoping tow bar
• A King employee discount on
  a future King Avionic purchase.
• Price includes:
  • – 2 hour checkout by ATP / former-CFII
  • – Will guide you through Condition Inspection at purchase to get you on your way.
  • – Custom tools for the plane
  • – spare upholstery fabric
  • – $700 in Epoxy paint, both White and Cranberry Red, for repaint when you want

Disclosure

So, all planes have squawks, right? In the interest of openness, here are some things that we know aren't perfect.

• The G-meter sticks at 1 G. It will sometimes show G's when there's a hard bump.
• The DME needs a tune up on the bench.
• A few of the teeth on the starter ring gear are chipped, the result of a false start.
  Not a problem for us - we index the prop for starting on the good teeth.
• The AP bug in the HSI is sometime tempermental. (sticks.)
• The Cranberry Red has faded and turned purple a bit after of the cowl.
  The color difference is more noticable after we repainted the cowl recently.
  We bought $500 of new Cranberry Red paint last year.
• The fabric in the rear of the plane is beginning to pull away from the rear windows.
  (Have more.)
• The Low Voltage (idiot) light is currently OTS. (Needs to be adjusted.)
• One seat bottom has some cracking/splitting in the leather.
  (I made the mistake of letting TuffStuff upholstery cleaner get on the leather,
  and that dried it out and it cracked.)