One of the 'lesser' versions of what someone once called an "airplane" ... better forgotten. BUT ... that said --- thousands out here learned to :"get through the air" in these things. LOL Flew dozens of machines in my career .. and have few hours logged in one of these .... but definitely wasn't any choice at the time.
Got an aerobatic ride with Freddy at Henley Airdrome in the seventies in his earlier Monocoupe. I still have the model plans he gave me at that time. A terrific guy. He even helped me in the acquisition of my J-3 Cub.
I take it it was covered with Stits. Grade A cotton just doesn't last. And did you fill fuselage tubing with linseed oil? I'm sure you did as rust became a huge piper issue.
I've seen countless aviation videos, but I have to rate this video as Number 1 Best Ever. The airplane is immaculate. The hangar is amazing. The grass is great. Great audio (real engine noise no music and minimal talking. I love it. When I was 16 years old, in 1961, I had already soloed in a Champ (Aeronca 7AC), and then the FBO got two brand new Piper Colts, which I flew many hours while waiting for my 17th birthday when I passed my Private check ride in one of the Colts. It was a great airplane. And the restoration of your Colt is incredible.
I bought a 1956 Tri-Pacer-150 in 1986 and flew it for 12 years. Then restored and converted it to a Pacer and flew it for over 10 more years. Wonderful airplane and took me many places. Thanks for the video and keeping the real sounds, not replacing it with some obnoxious music. Very familiar and brings back fond memories.
Don't ever check oil level with out pulling the dipstick, wiping it down, and re-inserting it. It's called "wick action, and will always give you an incorrect oil level if you don't do this.
When I was in college I flew a Colt. I loved it better than the C 150 I had been flying at my home airport. That was back in 1964 and thousands of hours later. It still has a warm spot in my heart.
Hi there, I was wondering if I could use parts of this video in a top 10 airplane video that im creating? I would be able to give you full credit for the original content. Thanks
1:54 The oil wicks up the dipstick 1/2 inch on my walk behind mower if it sits for a week. Would like to hear a report from you if the oil level appears LOWER if you WIPE that stick and re-INSERT before reading it. Just try it once and see if it reads differently.
So many pilots have no idea just how much FUN the Pacer/Tri-Pacer/Colt series of aircraft are to fly! The short wing is what does it! You have to pay attention and keep your wits!
Great video! I really enjoyed the detail that you shared about how the restoration process works on this style of airplane. I'm interested in a Stinson 108-2, so trying to learn as much as possible.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. While in the USAF I was stationed at Travis AFB. They had an AERO Club with Colts. My shirt tail is still on the ceiling there. Great little trainer with dosal flight handling.
What a wonderful young lady that I think realizes how fortunate she is to be able to learn to fly and have a wonderful loving and caring father that she has! Bravo young lady. May you experience many many years of wonderful flight! God Speed.
Greetings to Jim Jenkins from Monroe, Connecticut. I once visited you with my brother and you were building an airplane in your garage on Moose Hill Road. A great memory from the old days of my misspent youth.
@Scotabot I have a Colt, and been looking at pictures of them EVERYWHERE on the internet for over 7 years. There is definitely NOT a better looking Colt anywhere. You can’t go past perfect.
@@Skyprince27 I agree!!! The airplane drips of perfection in every detail. It is just absolutely a beauty to behold. I couldn't believe it the first time my eyes laid on it. Very nice to know another sees what I see!
@Scotabot Just watching this video has cost me thousands of dollars in future expenses! The paint scheme conforms PRECISELY to Piper Drawing #15136, specifically for the 1961 Colt paint scheme, (the 1962-1964 Colts being different). The Colt insignia stencilling on the nose is also a PERFECT match to the drawing. You NEVER see either of these characteristics in the field, to say nothing of the flawless implementation in terms of both paint and fabric. My Colt is a 1961 also, and is painted similarly to the more generic Colt, which is technically wrong. 😑 Something I didn’t like about this video, though, the guy has his GoPro mounted on his head (probably a helmet cam) and he’s CONSTANTLY whipping his head from side-to-side!!! Just when you want to stare, blankly, drooling at one particular view for a second or two, he whips his head off in another direction which I find super-annoying! I’m going to have to watch the whole video again at 1/4 speed on a large screen and freeze it every few seconds to get the full experience. I saw one other Colt that was very very nice, a blue one, for sale on eBay a couple of years ago. A lot of pictures, so I screenshotted the lot for future reference. It was a later year I forget which one maybe 1963. The plane allegedly had very, very low time, was bought new and basically put in storage and kept in a new condition. Allegedly. Although there were some telltale details that showed this wasn’t completely true. NOWHERE NEAR as nice as this red one! N5191Z CLEARLY exceeds “factory-new” by a country mile!!!
@@Skyprince27 Thanks for the wonderful reply. It looks like some very very lucky person just bought this awesome airplane recently, or the registration was changed. I read a while back that the museum where 91Z was housed closed. Sad for that organization!
I owned N5191Z from 1979 to 1998. My Dad got his Private Pilot’s License in it. She was a part of the family for those years and never let us down. My wife and I flew a few times with our daughters in car seats secured to the cargo space straps. Dad and I were at Meadowlark Airport near Long Beach, CA looking to buy a Tri Pacer. We saw a very sad one that day and decided to have lunch before leaving. N5191Z pulled up and parked. After a brief chat with Mark, the owner, the sale was agreed to. What a day! 91Z resided at Santa Monica, Camarillo, CA and then relocated out to the Falmouth Airpark, MA. I sold it to Jim Jenkins who did the beautiful restoration that you see in the video. Seeing her flying and in such great shape made my day. Thanks.-Chris Dyer
gorgeous colt...i flew out of KTOA Torrance ...my instructor used to have me fly to meadowlark for lunch and short field practice..that place and the Nerio family were part of socal aviation history
Just saw your comment, Richard. Dad did use Monocoupe factory drawings when he built the airplane. But he was also an avid model airplane guy. He would take his peanut scale Monocoupe to the air shows and fly it around between acts or especially at the big dinner banquet! It got crunched a few times when it went into the crowd but always got repaired. That drawing in the video is dad’s own peanut scale design of his Monocoupe, combined with a North America map showing all of the trips we made in the airplane, all the shows, and a description and the history. He would print them up in blueprint and sell them for 3 bucks at the air shows so people could build their own Monocoupe! -Marc
