Buying and bringing home my Tri-Pacer, Denver, CO - Snohomish, WA 

Great video, dude, thanks so much for sharing your trip. My father was a CFI teaching from Carpenter Airport outside of Charlotte in the 60's, and took me flying numerous times in a TriPacer. The Piper fleet back then was only 20+/- yrs old...can't believe the craftsmanship shown with you flying N950ID 50-60- yrs later. Wow ! I don't believe there will be many Cirrus's or newly designed aircraft flying 60 yrs from now, although I may be wrong. Fair winds and sunny sky's to you, mountain skimmer.

Best looking Tri Pacer , and I live in Tri Pacer country !

Brings back great memories of the early sixties. My late father used to ask me if I was feeling OK on a school day. I knew right what he meant. I'd say not too good dad and he'd say let's go flying! We'd have lunch at the bellingham Airport and he'd rent the tri pacer. Great times! Thanks for the video!

I imagine most viewers are loving all the scenic shots, but I would have loved to see a few pics of the cockpit and instruments. Show me the interior, not just the exterior. After all, the video is about the plane too!!! .

Wonderful your PA22. I Also owned and loved one, s/n 22-7397, for.10 years until 2014. Registration CC-PGF in Chile.

What a wonderful flight! I got my private in a Piper Colt in 1969. Dreamed about owning one, or it’s sibling the tri-pacer…

Great video…thanks.

I know exactly what you did and how it felt. I got my cert in September and the next day flew 5 and a half hours towards my home airport. It is such a cool and amazing trip that first one. Every trip thereafter is great too, but the first one is special. I just sold my plane and delivered it to Florida from Denver and once again it was a special trip full of nostalgia and amazing sights never seen before in that manner. On the United flight home I flew the same route just a "wee bit higher'. Even more stunning to realize I just flew the other way down there.... Flying: once you do it you never cease to look up. Now what? Get another plane of course....

Beautiful plane !!

Thanks for bringing me along.

That is a sweeeeeet plane! I love my old tri-pacer

Nothing sounds as pretty as the whistling of a Tri-Pacer passing overhead. You are truly blessed to own one!

Beautiful bird and scenery. In an older, past life, I owned a 54 and 56 Tri Pacer. Back in my day, they were called "flying milk stools".

Loved this! I live in Denver and am looking at purchasing a Tri pacer. You make it look as fun as it sounds! Thanks for sharing.

The Fly Chaser!

Money well spent if you can find a set of Ace Demer Droop tips, they do improve performance more than any other. The most impressive thing is the stability improvement, will cut pilot fatigue considerably. Believe me I have owned 5 of them from a 53-135, not advised, to a 59-160. Converted to a pacer they are fun to fly but can be a handful on the ground.

With a woman instructor I flew the Piper Colt in College. This had 108 hp no back seat with no flaps. I moved up to the 150 hp tri pacer aft my private. Great airplanes.

Very underrated aircraft, at low altitudes a Tri pacer will fly circles around a Cessna 172

Tri-Pacer was one of the airplanes I grew up around in the Keys in the 1950's. Still love them today! Thanks for a wonderful video!

Tripacer and colt are great airplanes best bang for your buck !

BeautifuL dream...congratulation

Beautiful aircraft.

I restored a 1955 Tri Pacer and converted it to a Pacer tail drag-er and put the 160 hp in it. I flew it for 10 years here in N. Idaho and the Everette area. Great airplane, Great video that brought back a lot of memories

Beautiful. My first flight was as a boy in a Tri Pacer near Greenfield, Indiana. Thanks for the memories!

Thanks for sharing your perfect video...beautiful plane...perfect choice of the Floyd Boys music! You are an inspiration!

What a great looking plane awesome!!!

I own a Bonanza but OMG!.. Tri Pacers are absolutely adorable and I want to buy one!

Your video is cool. Your airplane is magnificent. Thanks for preparing and sharing the video of your journey.

Better camera work than most Tri Pacer videos !

My first love, enjoy your new ride.

Wow what cool plane you have. You certainly flew over some beautiful country!

Beautiful plane, beautiful country :) Hi from London UK

Супер! Красавец! ✈👍

Loved those Tri-Pacers

Beautiful airplane. Jealous. Great vid.

Really good looking plane.

That is a fine looking aircraft. I've been a private pilot for years but haven't done much flying in the past decade or so. I've been looking to get back into it, and a Tri Pacer is right at the top of my list. As far as I can tell, they are pretty much the best bang for the buck...provided I can fit in one.

Great stuff !

I want a pa20 or pa22/20 really bad, planning on having one by the time I'm 25 hopefully. Can't wait to fly it home one day.

I purchased N4773A 1956 PA22-150 in 1977, eyes went tu 1986 and sold it but put almost 400 hrs on it. Was living in the mountains north of Spokane. Wonderful back country plane with a 49 pitch prop it would jump in the air and climb 700 fpm with full fuel and 4 170 lb riders @ 90 degrees and 2700 msl. Not a cruiser about 105 fully loaded. Nice looking find you have.

Hey! I've gotten to fly a few times before!! I love that plane!! I really don't have that view though!! new to you and liked!

thanks for the ride....

Very capable aircraft. Fun flying. Cheap insurance.

What an adventure! Congrats beautiful airplane. How that flap got that damage? Lightning struck? I guess it would have burnt the whole wing. Thankfully it wasn't. A flying debris?

Nice flying adventure....

Pink Floyd!! Nice!

Thanks for the ride, "tore the flap off? Maybe that was a good thing.

great looking plane, I have a '56 - with a 0-320 in it just love that plane

My dad owned 2 Colts ... two made one great aircraft

Lucky dog

Buffalo wyoming is my home airport

beautiful plane. Would have enjoyed hearing you narrate a bit but, great video all the same. I wanted this same model many years ago when I first got my ticket. But, I could never find a descent one. All of them were very derelict.

It's been a few years since you shot this video...I'd love to hear your impressions of the aircraft so far.

Congratulations!! Great video, and nice looking plane. I think I've seen that one at SWPC gatherings. I have a '54 135 with an O-320 in it, now being restored and recovered. Too bad about the flap. Always park with the flaps down- it holds them in place. I recommend joining the Short Wing Piper Club. They have some great resources. Also Shortwingpipers.org on the web. Enjoy. They are great and underrated planes.

Cute little TriPacer. Great looking aircraft and what a champ to make that long flight over rugged terrain. So would you do an over mountain trip like that again if you didn't need to?

Interested in flying another Tri pacer from MO to UT? Let me know!

I was too young to afford an Airplane @14 in 1964, was void of $$$ I wanted the Luscombe 8-f I flew and Soloed so bad

1959 I was 9 took my first plane ride with my brother for $5 out of Howell Airport Crestwood Illinois grass runways in a TriPacer

Excellent venture! I'm looking at buying a Tri-Pacer. I live in the mountains and it would make a good bush plane. Did you have any problem over the mountains? How was its climb performance?

No stats? How much fuel, time, and speed? Thanks

I want to buy one but I can’t find any for sale

Hey, sad to hear you had storm damage in Deer Lodge. Wish we had room in my brothers hanger when you landed, would of saved you the damage.

How much did you pay for it?

Imagine,I could have bought one for 8 thousand.

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Why have aviation videos now become music videos? Not Right!

My father had a Tri pacer when I was growing up. I just loved that airplane. Yours is sensational.

Took balls to fly that tri pacer that far first trip. Love the Floyd. Cool video 👍

Enjoyed this so much. Thanks for the video. The Tri Pacer is beautiful. Glad you had a safe flight. The scenery was incredible. I hope you enjoy your plane and have many safe hours of flight.

KBJC is my home base. I own and fly a 77 Grumman Tiger AA-5B out of there with my son. That's a sweet Tri-Pacer you have there. Enjoy! By the way, just realized the pre-purchase inspection was done at RMAS... the owner, Justin Parrow, is also my A&P! Small world!

My first airplane ride ever was in a Piper Tri-Pacer in 1959 out at (now gone) Zahn's Field in Nassau County, L.I., N.Y. Your fine video reminds me of that day. I went up first with the pilot and my brother, I believe, and then a second time that same summer day with my father (his first flight ever as well). As a licensed pilot myself, years later, I would fly frequently from Zahn's before it was turned into a suburban housing community. Thanks for the memories!

That was some exciting flying over and through those mountains glad you made it safe and sound!!

What a fun trip! You gotta love “short winged Pipers” I was able to log a few hours in a tripacer as a young private pilot. Great airplane and yours is exceptional.

Love the video. My wife and I are both from Wyoming and now live in Montesano Wa. We are looking for a Tri Pacer to purchase some time in the next year.

Great Video!!!

Heck of a Trip

Welcome to the club of ownership.

"Mountains and MORE mountains" you commented. REMINDS me of the famous LEWIS & CLARK entry in their logs in which they, believing that the PACIFIC OCEAN was just over the NEXT (and first) ridge they encountered, said "Mountains as far as the eye can see". They were still over 300 miles from the Pacific...hey Lewis, hey Clark...keep on trekin'. LOL Nice flight you had...stay safe...sorry to lose a beautiful plane from CO! Since you're in WA...please consider taking a MOUNTAIN FLYING course. Come back to CO and start in CO Springs and fly to LEADVILLE,CO the HIGHEST airport 9, 927 feet above MSL.

Do you happen to know if a guy names Steve Frey ever owned that Tri-Pacer?