I have always wanted to own my own airplane. Earned my private license 30 years ago but life, kids and work pretty much put a halt to that. Now in my golden years I have an opportunity to achieve that goal. My original intent was to build an aircraft from scratch, then one day while I was browsing Barnstormers I saw this Taylorcraft for sale and it was only 60 miles from where I lived. Met the owner, bought it, and also assumed the hangar...what a deal.
The plane last flew in 1985 and spent about 30 years disassembled in a shed located in Lancaster Calif. The high desert dry air preserved the plane nicely. The fabric was in very poor shape and there was a pretty thick layer of dirt on everything, the windshield was distorted a bit, from what my brother in law and I could tell, it was a very complete aircraft. Later as we researched and started to strip the plane we discovered that there was very little missing