This is a story about a Piper Tri-Pacer. From a random Facebook post to flying it home! 

My first PA22 was a 51 125. Life sucked the wind out of me and I sold it to a guy that inspected it. After I got my ticket with its hours. Then a 57 PA22*150 and here comes life's curves again. Not flown after my wife died. The Flying Rock is a great airplane and tons of fun. Enjoyed your story

Love the Tri-Pacer and loved the hell out of your story telling.😂😂 laughing my butt off here. I started out in a Pacer in 82, great little plane I have to agree with you these aircraft should be preserved. I might see about a plane if I could ever get my money and health to work out. God bless you sir and have a wonderful life, I wish you nothing but the best

The one dislike on this video is that opening bidder finding out that he almost got the plane for $3500! I have a 1955 PA-22-150 that I absolutely love.

Nice story, even better than mine! My PA22-150 was airplane #2 for me. A friend of mine told me there are two kinds of people when it comes to Tri-Pacers: those that love them and those that have never flown them… so I bought mine for $5600 and immediately spent another $2000 to have the small stemmed engine valves replaced with the larger stemmed valves. Flew that airplane for 700+ hours before selling it to my mechanic. My friend was right! I loved that little airplane!

Cool Story 👍 You lucky Sod 🤪 However - Who Dares Wins 😎 Good For You I did the same thing with a 1968 Mooney M-20G - with TT of 3,820, and 180 hours left on the engine - had leaking fuel tanks - we stole her for $6,000 (well, she only had 84 hours of logbook history over 8 years on the Airframe, but the prop and engine’s logbooks was full history - loved to fly her 😊 Nothing like a Great Deal 👍

Great story and lovely bird you've got there! I've never flown a Tri-Pacer, outside of Xplane, but I love the way they look and hope to one fly a real one some day.

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Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm on how you aquired your Tri-Pacer. I'm about to aquire one!

Hey! Indeed I enjoyed the video! Lucky you man. Congrats and enjoy your winged candy. For sure you were wearing your lucky charm that day. Boy feels so good even it didn't happen to me. Keep up the plane in great condition. Kudos.

Great story!

Great story

I had a '59 Tri-Pacer for a time. My favorite memory of it is the LOAD it would carry.

Great airplane. Just flew mine from Norfolk VA to Naples Fl

Wtf that is amazing! Happy for you! Enjoy 😊

I love this video, have watched it several times. Natural comedian. Great story!

Congrats. Just once, I'd like to find a steal like that. On anything. I once made Bakersfield my stomping grounds! In fact, I lived just west of Coffee and Hageman. I used to shop at the Von's just across the intersection.

Great logo!!!

I agree. Unless you found that airplane, or any Tri-Pacer in extremely dilapidated condition, you’d usually wind up paying much more. You DID steal it.

I just acquired a Tri-Pacer, a 1956 (or would it be a '57? Original airworthiness in October '56). Flew it from Portland to Albuquerque! I'm now dealing with the original Jerry-rigged battery "cables", the braided aluminum flat wire straps that go from the actual battery terminals to a pair of additional terminals in the wall of the battery box. The battery was replaced a year ago, but the wire straps look like steel wool. 60 year old steel wool. I can't figure why they wouldn't have replaced them at the same time, except cost. At any rate, I plan to dispense with them with an STC that allows new holes in the battery box and proper cables attached directly to the terminals.

Storm, Great story! I’ve gotten a good deal on the three planes I’ve bought, but nothing in comparison to your deal. Congrats!

oh my god dude

While you're telling this wonderful story my imagination was going full throttle. Ha ha. I imagined that after you paid for the plane and you were given the bill of sale you hand the keys to your friend to fly south 10 FBI Agents pop out of nowhere guns drawn and pointed at you two. In a matter of seconds the cops are ripping this beauty apart looking for...yup, you guessed it...DRUGS!! Dogs appear Sniffing and soon finding bricks of drugs!! Your arms are pulled behind and you and your friend are cuffed and shoved into the back of an unmarked van. The plane is hauled off to be auctioned at a police action. What a Nightmare!