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This is my first 100% owned plane.


Great fun! My first plane was a Luscombe. I really miss it.
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...and a great warbird as far as i'm concerned!
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Aeronca Champ 7BCMs- albeit with a 100hp engine I believe, were operated as FACs and other utility duties during the Korean Police Action.

There was an absolutely gorgeous Silver 7BCM at Oshkosh and a spiffy yellow one in NAVY markings, although I am not at all certain about whether the USN ever really operated them.

So I am not at all embarrassed to call it a Warbird! :wink:

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Cool, now that you have a warbird, you should:

1) put a blue nose on it

2) put shark's teeth on it

3) put D-Day invasion stripes on it

4) put the Memphis Belle on it to make people think it was the first Champ to fly 25 missions,

5) paint it up as "Old Crow", as we can never have enough of those flying around.

So, get that "civvie" paint scheme off of there and paint it up as the warbird it was intended to be! :)


Hey I've got an idea. Maybe if you have some paint left over, you could paint it up as "Texas Raiders" instead! Hahaha!
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bdk wrote:
SPANNERmkV wrote:
This is my first 100% owned plane.


Great fun! My first plane was a Luscombe. I really miss it.


My first plane was a 7AC Champ, as that was my first taildragger and my first solo as well. Great plane to learn to fly in! :D
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I know that plane! The mechanic that restored it used work at my airport. Still looks good after all these years. You got a good one.
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Congratulations! I don't care what color it is, it's better than the plane that I don't own! You won't loose that one on the parking ramp!

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Congrats on the A/C!!! Not to many people get it right and put the nose wheel in the proper location, in the back... The tailwheel will continue to teach every hour you fly it. Do what I did and buy a video camera, then the ram mount and video as you go....

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Congrats Spanner! I hope the grin never leaves your face!
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That is a great color. You can pick that thing out anywhere! Yep, leave it the way it is until someone else becomes the owner.

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It's very GREEN :!: :!: :!: :!:






but lovely :D I almost bought a green Citabria once......Green is good

I'm happy for you....have fun with beautiful Kermit :P
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It's very GREEN :!: :!: :!: :!:



Yes, Al Gore would be very proud right now. :D
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Congrats don!!!! Great looking champ!!

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Good for you. That has the 13 gallon tank I guess? Some have a supplementary 5.5 gallon tank at the right wing root. You use the main until it is about half gone, then open the cock valve and gravity feed from the wing tank to fill the main. Nice simple idea to get another hr. flying unless your bladder calls first.
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SPANNERmkV wrote:
Aeronca Champ 7BCMs- albeit with a 100hp engine I believe, were operated as FACs and other utility duties during the Korean Police Action.

There was an absolutely gorgeous Silver 7BCM at Oshkosh and a spiffy yellow one in NAVY markings, although I am not at all certain about whether the USN ever really operated them.

So I am not at all embarrassed to call it a Warbird! :wink:

SPANNER the slightly twisted


So you don't actually own a warbird then.

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