I'm in 42-05, will stop by for sure. A fellow BTer at DVT, nice. Anyone else?

Hey guys, great site.

My name is Steve and I am 34, and I live in Crown point Indiana. I have been logging baron time since I was 10 years old. I soloed on my sixteenth birthday. I have a commercial multi-engine instrument ratings, but mainly fly single engines now. I just bought a 1/2 share of a 1950 Piper pacer from my dad but hope to get a bonanza in the next few years. My dad has a very clean V35B which I fly once in a while and also has a Fairchild PT-19 which I also get to fly. I will be posting his V35B in the for sale forum shortly.

Steve

Welcome, Steve. Cool planes.

Welcome Steve... what a panel on that piper!

Hello everyone

My name is Jeff. I am fairly new to flying. Lost my medical for a year and just got it back. Got my private 2007. Bought a used V35, a 1954 E-225, tail number 3512B. Upgraded the panel and am finishing a conversion to fuel injection and IFR certification. Hope to become IFR in the near future. Looking forward to meeting and talking to other Bonanza pilots.

Jeff

Welcome, Jeff. Let's see pictures of your v-tail!

Jeff,

Welcome aboard! Your now an official member of the 125 club. Just joking -- post some pics of your ride when your able.

It was coming sooner or later......

Pics will come. Don't have any worth the site at the moment. I'll be out at the hanger soon and get a few to post.

Thanks for the welcome.

Jeff

Jeff: Before someone beats you up for it, the correct model designation for your airplane would be an E35, not a V35, which is a 66 or 67 model. Watch it, these guys are picky!

Welcome aboard!

Paul

Don' know what I was thinking, I know better.

Thanks for pointing out my error.

Jeff

(Chuckle).

I was biting my virtual tongue!

Hi guys, my name is Walt and I am the brand new owner of a 1980 Beech F33A that my business partner and I picked up today. From reading the previous posts I guess I'll have to post the only pic I have so far and that was one taken by the previous owner. Our baby is now in a nice cozy hangar located in beautiful Apopka, FL X04
I'll be sure to post lots of pics in the future as she is going to have a new IO520BB installed in the next few weeks and I'll try to document the process well.
Thanks for having me on your board.

Walt,

Welcome!

We will hold you to the more pictures promises.

-MO

Hey all...didn't see the request to introduce outselves when I registered. Have loved anything that would fly since I was old enough to look up at passing overhead noise. My dad had a good friend with a low serial number '47 straight 35 Bonanza that I had my first airplane ride in...I remember the wooden prop and the switch he would toggle to "buzz the house"...At age 22 in my first yr of post grad, my roommate had a freshly minted CFI ticket and needed his first guinea pig. In spite of 44 credit hours and no money, this was an opportunity I couldn't let pass. I took a night and weekend job pumping gas etc at Omaha's Epply field, where I could study when things were quiet, and joined a flying club. The cost of the instruction from my roomie was weekend beer money. I started flying in 150's/172's and 5 months later, with 41 hours, had a license to legally kill myself.

With money being a big problem, I got most of my flying hours by ferrying Cessnas from Wichita for a local OMA dealer. My family was living in Socal at the time, so for school breaks I would post a 'ride sharing notice' on the campus and would share anything from Cherokees to 172s to Mooneys to cut the cost to a fourth and always had a full plane. We would beg borrow or steal to ride/fly/or just be around airplanes. I think that the statute of limitations has probably expired long enough ago to admit that my roommate and I would fly to neighboring KN to transport enough Coors beer to resell on the campus at a premium...enough to cover the cost of the airplane. Those were the days before the smuggling by aircraft became really profitable...Those of you old enough here can remember when Coors was a fairly local CO beer and was sought by those removed from an available source. After graduation in 1970, I moved to Colorado to ski and hike and practice dentistry on anyone willing to laydown in my chair. All my flying for about 4 yrs was with either CAP or a brother in law that had joined a flying club with a 182. In 74 I bought into a joint ownership with 5 other guys in a Mooney Chaparral and flew that until 78 when my family kept getting bigger and I needed a 6 place plane, preferably turboed. There were a few S turboed bo's around but the 36TC was not on the market yet and a 66 turbo bonanza driver steered me to the T 210 which i purchased in 1978 and still fly today.

I have private and instrument, about 4000+ hrs TT with 3000+ in the 210. Outside of frequent trips to visit my other "money hole" at Lake Powell, I try to fly at least once a week for that 100 dollar plus burger. With family scattered from Cali to New England and points between, we fly 125 to 150 hrs a year, 99% personal flying.

I enjoy the constant ability to learn more about all aspects of aviation and regularly read CPA site. I found this site by accident and have enjoyed lurking and reading. My dream plane has always been a Baron ...especially at night or over water, but with my kids grown my only need for even a plane the size of the Centurion is to haul ice chests, mtn bikes and all the camping gear for summer trips. This site therefore allows me to live vicariously with my Baron urges and still afford gas for my LOP operated, heavy load hauling CT 210.