The Secret Life of 80H

Volume 34
Number 4
April 2004

You know it’s going to be a bad day when the airplane you once owned turns up in pieces on eBay.

Looking shipshape and ready to fly again—except for 25 feet of missing wing—our venerable Mooney awaits its sad fate.

by Paul Bertorelli

Look, I don’t get emotional about this airplane stuff. Really, I don’t. But this…this is almost enough to make a hard boiled cynic cry.

Recall that our Mooney 201, N3880H, suffered an engine failure on takeoff from Beaufort, South Carolina in April of 2002. Fortunately, no one was hurt but the airplane was declared a total loss by the insurer, USAIG. …

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