Sun 'n Fun 2024: Lock & Key Navajo Refurbs

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Mike Jones Aircraft in Murfreesboro, Tennessee found a real niche with what he calls the Bahama Station Wagon, also known as the Lock & Key Piper Navajo. Jones thinks the Piper Navajo is among the best piston twins ever built and his extensive Lock & Key refurbishment program makes a good airplane even better. With the latest avionics suite, speed and performance mods, high-end paint and interior work, plus extensive maintenance and component replacements, the aircraft really are better than new. The company had two Lock & Key Navajos on display at Sun 'n Fun 2024, and Aviation Consumer Editor in Chief spent some time with Jones looking them over.

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15 сен 2024

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@MikeWhiskey427 5 месяцев назад

Cool seeing someone save a Navajo! Cool old birds.

@johnanderson6323 5 месяцев назад

Second to none. Outstanding work that they stand behind.

@GabeRamirez15 5 месяцев назад

The L&K team have a keen eye. Beautiful restorations.

@atWay. 5 месяцев назад

Always fascinating seeing restomods with everything the news onse have plus more great value !

@jeffr6280 5 месяцев назад

Man, I was around Navajo's a lot when I work worked at an FBO at ILG decades ago. They looked more like school buses than a luxury sport ute. Great job by Lock and Key to get those old birds a new lease on life, and I'm sure someone is going to grab them up in short order.

@skyhawk5265 5 месяцев назад

A Tecnam P2012 is over $2.5M and I wouldn’t keep it if they gave it to me. I would take a Navajo Chieftan over the Tecnam any day.

@kevinbarry71 5 месяцев назад

That is a lot of money for something that isn't a Turboprop

@OmarKnowCars 5 месяцев назад

I was thinking the same thing

@nick4506 5 месяцев назад

a similarly specced tbm is double that. if you dont care about new paint, avionics, and interior then what they are doing is not for you.

@kohersh 5 месяцев назад

Which turboprops are you talking about that are that nice??

@kevinbarry71 5 месяцев назад

@@nick4506 I prefer not to be running engines that date back to the Eisenhower administration. And one Turbo prop is far more reliable than two piston engines.

@kevinbarry71 5 месяцев назад

@@nick4506 A TBM is, much faster, far more reliable, and will not kill you with an engine out on takeoff.

@JorgeIrizar-f6s 2 месяца назад

Hermosas naves !!!

@36thstreethero 5 месяцев назад

“Our program starts at $1.5 mill-:closes video:”

@jbw9999 3 месяца назад

These Navajos sound great. I just heard 75LK fly over.

@seoceancrosser 5 месяцев назад

Should do some 90 series king airs from the 70s and 80s.

@DanFrederiksen 5 месяцев назад

I get the idea but 2 million for a korean war era plane that's very expensive to maintain and likely close to impossible to sell. We need new amazing planes, not to gentrify the junkyard. You can get an Eclipse twin jet for less.

@M2Chris 5 месяцев назад

The man can sell..

@wilzboyz 5 месяцев назад

Absolutely crazy at that price tags. Just insane.

@galactictomato1434 5 месяцев назад

Airplanes are expensive. Heavy restored and updated airplanes are more expensive. Who knew.

@bernardanderson3758 5 месяцев назад

Mike Jones can refurbish a Piper Navajo Chieftain in a Beautiful Turn key Panther and more less prop noise design. I’m looking forward to seeing the Cessna P-210

@SuperTrb0 5 месяцев назад

The problem with comparing these builds with classic cars is that classic cars can sit. Airplanes can’t. So you’re in $2 mil on a piston aircraft that has so-so fuel burn and so-so speed. At $2 million you can get yourself into a single TP that gets you above the weather, speed and less expensive fuel burn.

@jbw9999 3 месяца назад

But that one turboprop has twice the fuel burn than both of the Navajo's engines. And of course costs a few hundred thousand to overhaul. And HS inspection alone costs about what a piston overhaul does.

@SuperTrb0 3 месяца назад

@@jbw9999 But it’s faster, better range and can get above most weather. Fuel burn isn’t everything.

@jbw9999 3 месяца назад

@@SuperTrb0 Some weather; not sure about "most". But different people have different needs.

@jbw9999 3 месяца назад

Yeah it's a lot of money, but there's a 2023 Baron on Controller right now for $2,250,000. Everything is crazy expensive now. All the work they did to these Navajos wasn't cheap.

@LowandFast357 5 месяцев назад

For that price, you'd be better off with a 421C.

@36thstreethero 5 месяцев назад

Does anyone understand how much less they are getting here? It seems $1mil is the new entry price for modern avionics.

@bernardanderson3758 5 месяцев назад

I saw a Mike Jones turn key Panther in Ohio last Monday

@mts982 3 месяца назад

do they refurb piper cheyenne 400LS?

@jmwintenn 5 месяцев назад

it doesnt look bad but you can get a remanned twin commander for near that.

@Dragonrc. 5 месяцев назад

Love what they do, but this just adds to the current state of GA becoming a rich mans thing again. I have been priced out of it and regret retiring from the military hoping to fly outside of the military. Almost impossible for me now, but still love seeing something being turned into a modern plane.

@Ka9radio_Mobile9 5 месяцев назад

🥰🥰🥰🥰

@kevinbarry71 5 месяцев назад

An adult using the word "potty". Hysterical

@SkylaneGuy 5 месяцев назад

Laugh all you want but that is the industry term for it - implies non flushable toilet.

@nick4506 5 месяцев назад

@@chad6080 well if you want someing with a real bath room youre going to have to add another 10-20 million dollars to your budget.

@Blxz 5 месяцев назад

How to turn old goods into good money. Too rich for my taste though. I expect a whole lot more plane for those prices.

@Bupkus68 3 месяца назад

Winglets on a Navajo seem a bit…unnecessary?

@jbw9999 3 месяца назад

Why? Even TBMs come with winglets now. Colemill's Panther conversion has been adding winglets to Navajos for decades. Mike Jones bought out the Colemill conversions. From AOPA 11/5/1999 article "Colemill Panther Navajo": "said to provide additional lift, more stability, and reduce the yawing tendencies of Navajos in rough air" "When I got that airplane back, I, I realized that the better climb performance of both airplanes was a result of the props and winglets rather than having new engines."