The Beech 99 to KA350i Project!

[Maurice]

Most people get excited when they prepare a room for the arrival of their upcoming newborn. So why shouldn't you?  . But then again, these newborns have the lousy habit of turning into bratty teenagers and I'm sure your Beech 99 will follow in their path as well and drive you to tears.

You have one big advantage though...you can always put it up for sale or throw it the dump...not quite as easy with teenagers 

Maurice

[Trevor Hale]

LOL @ Mau, thats funny.. and you are right, I can throw it out or even sell it if I am tired of it LMFAO..  Can't do that with teenagers, even though we may want to! rofl.

Trev

[phil744]

hmmmm I wonder how our Trev is getting on, today is the day is it not??

[jackpilot]

Yep,   
Héhé

[Bob Reed]

Today is the day. He has had all the gear and the trailer with him all week. Was geting up around 3:30am to head to the airport where the plane is. And now we wait to see how things go. 

[Bob Reed]

I got an email from Trevor about 2 hrs ago.. Looks like all is going well. Will let you know more shortly!

[Bob Reed]

I have heard fromTrevor and have the Ok to post these 2 pics. More to follow tomorrow. Wow!!

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It is on it's way home.

[NeoMorph]

It always gives me mixed emotions when I see pictures like those. Happy for you as you are getting a cockpit and yet sad to see an aeroplane in such a state.

Will you be doing a history lookup for it?... If I got a cockpit looking like that I would be digging into the history to see where it has been in its life (and where it was made etc). Do you have the logbook for it?

Congrats again... Mucho green with envy here. Has to be the best price ever. Looking forward to see the progress Trev.

[Maurice]

Trev stopped at my place on his way home. His dad was curious about my visuals so they did a short flight in my sim before taking the Beech to its new home. Exciting times for Trevor for sure.

Maurice

[jackpilot]

Hey, nice weather up there, drizzly and cold here!!

Mau's neighbours have now the confirmation they were looking for.... !   

Trev , Glad you kept some first class section.
Jack

[NeoMorph]

I bet someone else drove the car and he rode along in the cockpit heh.

[Trevor Hale]

It always gives me mixed emotions when I see pictures like those. Happy for you as you are getting a cockpit and yet sad to see an aeroplane in such a state.

Neo, the life I have given this airplane is way better then the life it had sitting in a desolite field filled with Bird nests and rotting away.  It has been sitting to rot away since 1984, when its last flight brought it from the USA to The Airport I collected it from.  Everyone knows it will be much happier in its new home. 

Will you be doing a history lookup for it?... If I got a cockpit looking like that I would be digging into the history to see where it has been in its life (and where it was made etc). Do you have the logbook for it?

I have already done this and am totally aware of its history.  Some of which was posted in the first post of the thread.  I even secured the manufactures number plare with all the information on it which will be framed next to the picture of her still in a flying state and a picture of the way she will be when completed as a simulator.  The fact is, I am giving the history a chance to keep going, not just ending up in a scrap yard and turned into pop / soda cans if it was lucky.

But thanks for being so happy for me, but trust me.  I am a very happy guy right now.. 

Trev

[Trevor Hale]

Trev stopped at my place on his way home. His dad was curious about my visuals so they did a short flight in my sim before taking the Beech to its new home. Exciting times for Trevor for sure.

Thanks Bud, again for all your hospitality.  You truly are a great host.

Trev

[Trevor Hale]

Trev , Glad you kept some first class section.

Me too Jack, I am so excited..  One row of first Class seats, however I will need to locate a set ROFL.

Trev.

[Trevor Hale]

Here is all the Photo's Guys..  I have a couple videos that I will be posting soon.  Clicking on the Image, hopefully provides the captions, if not, vising the gallery will.

Trev

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[NeoMorph]

It's a shame you couldn't have kept the nose... Would have been great to store the PCs and it would have been good looking out the front and seeing the actual plane. Problem is it is soooooooooooooooooooo damned LONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG. I don't think I've seen a small plane with such a long nose.

Still, it's going to look nice I bet. Still frickin jealous of you real cockpit peeps.

[XOrionFE]

very cool Trevor

cant wait to see more as this takes shape!

Scott

[Trevor Hale]

Thanks guys. I am so supe excited. Now I know how the other guys with real cockpits feel. It's a feelin like you just can't describe. They way everything feels is just so indescribable. It is almost like you can hear the stories or voices of people that have ridden in the airplane. One funny thing is the pilots ashtray has cigarette butts in it. The last flight was 26 years ago and the butts are still in there. Almost preserved.

Everything looked very rough but already I have located the missing rudder peddles, seats and yoke. I am already peicing and labeling everything for reassembly after the gutting.

The only thing I thing I am really missing is a couple of connecting rods from the pilots peddles to the bellcrank in the floor. Even the peddles have the adjustments on them.

Also for anyone who may be interested. I will have quite a few wemac eyeball vents complete with a wemac eyeball light in a single housing.

Trev

[Jetcos]

Don't forget the smell!   

[Trevor Hale]

Lol @ Steve. How could I have forgotten to mention the smell. There is an old musty odor to everything. Your 100% right. I wish I could bottle that smell for everyone to smell. I could make air fresheners to hang from the overhead, shaped like little airplanes lol. We can call it old plane smell and you guys could sell it with every new DSTD. Do you think you could run that by Peter? Let me know what he says lol.

Trev

[NeoMorph]

Don't forget the smell!   

But he cut off the nose so how can it smell? 

[jackpilot]

Euhh ..Pete..Steve..Mau..Angus , Dave,   & co
Have a feeling that driving up to Gravenhurst  was just the beginning ..., North Bay might be the next call...?? bringing up some prototype panels or some other weird Beechy devices ?!...
 

PS: This post has been read 3000+ times .....
Internet is the greatest thing since cockpitbuilding!!!

[Trevor Hale]

Lol @ Jack your hilarious.  Yes but you guys are all into the heavy steel. Mine will just never measure up! Lol. If one of you have a plane you could fly to me in just over an hour or so. He he.

You never know. Least it will be warm again before that happens and you won't have to worry about freezing your but off

The hanger will always be open if someone wants to come and pick up the air fresheners

I can't wait to get it flying.

Trev

[NeoMorph]

Lol @ Jack your hilarious.  Yes but you guys are all into the heavy steel. Mine will just never measure up! Lol. If one of you have a plane you could fly to me in just over an hour or so. He he.

You never know. Least it will be warm again before that happens and you won't have to worry about freezing your but off

The hanger will always be open if someone wants to come and pick up the air fresheners

I can't wait to get it flying.

Trev

You'll have a job... You cut the bloody wings off! 

I was looking at the pictures earlier and it would have been a really good prank to wait until you had cut the wings off and then someone come along and go "OH MY GOD... WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY PLANE?"

[Maurice]

. It is almost like you can hear the stories or voices of people that have ridden in the airplane.
Trev

So you're hearing voices now  . Can't say I'm surprised since it was really the only sure & predictable outcome from all this.

And please quit talking about peddles... they are called pedals. 

Maurice