BeechTalk - BT - Bought a P35 Bonanza...still can't believe it!

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Apr 2019, 18:02

Well, after watching planes sell on Beechtalk, Controller, etc, I finally stepped up to the plate and bought one! This has been an incredible community and I'm looking forward to sharing things as I find and fix them in the coming years.

Insurance required 15 hours with an instructor knowledgeable with Bonanzas. That proved somewhat difficult near KABQ, so I flew to PHX near to where I picked the plane up and spent 4 awesome days flying with Bob Benda. In addition to being a CFII BPPP instructor, he is also an ABS maintenance academy graduate and (very nearly) A&P. We'd fly in the morning and early afternoon, and then park in the hangar and take things apart and tinker. It was like Bonanza summer camp! All told, I put 20 hours on her in about 4 days. Couldn't be happier.

She's going down in just a few weeks for annual and going to get ADS-B. For that, the wife told me I could get "whatever I wanted." :eek:

Now excuse me, I have a spinner to polish.

A.J.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Apr 2019, 18:07

Congrats! Nothing like that feeling of excitement!

Set a timer after you fly and put her away if you are prone to staring and grinning for too long.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Apr 2019, 19:59

Congratulations.
No feeling like it.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Apr 2019, 21:41

Congrats Allen! Beautiful bird. And it only gets better!!

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Apr 2019, 22:09

Congrats and welcome to the club. I remember when I brought mine home, driving by the T-cover slowly and thinking, “ yeah, that’s my plane right there.”

Enjoy.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Apr 2019, 22:10

MORE PICS, MORE PICS, MORE PICS. :popcorn:

Great looking Bonanza. You two are gonna have so much fun together...

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Apr 2019, 22:52

Congratulations! You’re going to love it! I have serial number D-6986 so our airplanes are “sisters”.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Apr 2019, 23:15

Username Protected wrote:

Congratulations! You’re going to love it! I have serial number D-6986 so our airplanes are “sisters”.

Hey cool!! Glad to know they're both still flying!

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Apr 2019, 23:57

one of the best feelings in the world.....owning your own Bonanza!! I got just two words for ya regarding the spinner polish.....Calfornia Custom. Congratulations!