As talked about in another thread - I've made the decision to upgrade to something with 4 seats and better IFR capability. As such, I'll be selling my 150, lovingly nicknamed "The Bluejay." I'd love to keep it within the 150 Club "Family," so I'm offering a $1500 discount for existing club members.

I've taken care of all the "first year woes," for this airplane, my motto with my mechanic has been - let's not save anything for the annual. If it needs replacing or needs work, let's get it done now. All maintenance has been overseen by 2 A&P IAs, and they've been very thorough. Oil has been changed regularly every 4 months or 30-50hrs, serviced with 20W50 and 2oz Camguard per 1qt/oil. The airplane is flown often, 10-15hrs a month, I've had a few months where I flew her for 25hrs.

The past 4 owners have all been private owners, it has not been used as a trainer, and I know the past 2 owners had the airplane hangared. I've always had it hangared, though it's under an open T-hangar right now. Current location is in Houston, TX.

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N1679Q, 1972 Cessna 150L

- AFTT: 6862hrs
- SMOH: 108hrs
- Year: 1972 model, 1971 manufacturing
- Exterior: 9/10 | She's a pretty airplane, the paint gets compliments everywhere I go, 2 people stopped by just to talk about what a pretty plane it was on my flight to Alabama for Thanksgiving!
- Interior 7/10 | Seats are in like-new condition, glass is in excellent shape, new seatbelts, and recently had the yokes refinished.
- Annual Due 02/2017
- Complete logs since new | Thorough records on installed equipment
- No damage history | Plane does have some minor hail dings.


Notable Upgrades:
- SkyTec Lightweight Starter
- Spin-On Oil Filter
- Oil Quick-Drain
- Electric Pitot Heat
- M20 Air/Oil Separator
- Whelen LED Strobes
- New LED Beacon
- LORD Shimmy Damper
- Fuel belly drain
- Zeftronics Voltage Regulator
- Slick Mags
- MoGas STC
- Prop dynamically balanced
- New Brakes
- New Fuel Sumps
- New Oil Temperature Gauge
- Yokes refinished

Work done the past year:
- New brakes
- New Fuel Sumps
- Alternator gasket replaced
- Tach Shaft Cable seal replaced
- Magnetos retimed
- New Oil Temperature gauge installed
- Yokes removed from aircraft and refinished
- New passenger-side headset jacks installed
- Landing light connectors replaced with scissor clips
- Alternator & Voltage-Regulator Wiring Reorganized and S-Terminal wire replaced

Equipment and Flight Rules:
- VFR & IFR equipped, VFR transponder check due 11/2018. IFR check not current.
- Narco AT165 Digital Transponder with Mode-C | This is a great transponder. Has flight timers, stopwatches, and a VFR quick-button.
- Alcor CHT/EGT gauge
- Dual PTT's | Right-side PTT currently disconnected, I will give buyer PTT switches for them to connect.
- Dual Nav's, 1 VOR, 1 with Glideslope
- Sigtronics SAS-440 Intercom with auto-squelch
- TKM MX12 Radio
- Bendix-King ADF
- Hobbs Meter
- Have all 3 wheel pants, currently not on the plane.

$24,500 | $23,000 for Club Members

Pretty! Btw, that's a TKM MX12, not MX300 radio

Thanks Mikko!

Alex.....I may be interested...i have a few guys who want to learn to fly and think..(like I do) owning a 150 is far cheaper than renting something at 120-135$/hour!

Where do you keep her?

Is that West Houston or Sugarland?

Hey Jim,

Agree with you there! I wish I had bought my 150 before I got my license... I flew 182s for half my training, could have saved at least $2-3k by buying my own plane. Especially if a few people go in on it and co-own, it doesn't get much more affordable.

She's at IWS, West Houston airport.

The Bluejay looks really great, Alex. Looking at the pictures makes me a little sad how my poor little 150, Molly, looks. I will have to keep her hidden or I may get excommunicated from the Cessna 150/152 Club.

I think you have The Bluejay priced fairly and I expect soon he/she will have a new home. Have you found a C-172 you like yet?

Thanks for the kind words Stacey! Haha, if Molly has it where it counts, the outside is just an added bonus . No need for excommunication!

I have a couple of ones I've been eyeballing, but nothing to jump on yet. I'm also tempted to dig into the 182 market a little bit... Thinking maybe a 60s model 182 would be in my budget and fit my needs. I'm also going to go out and test fly a few Pipers and see how I like them.

There are ton of 50's Bonanza's in the 40k range with less then 1000 of TBO. I personalty don't see much value in upgrading from a 150 to 172. It as two seats more but you can rarely expect to use them with full tanks and have any performance or even be legal to take off. Also the high humidity and temps in summer Houston just will reduce the performance. The Bonanza's low price and 160kt cruse at 12GPH seams like the best bet to me...

Bonanzas are indeed, cool, but there are lot of other costs end things to go wrong. Take for instance the gear. Each year at annual, you need the retraction test. Then, there's the issue of magnesium flight controls. Also, you have a six-banger under the cowl with the constant-speed prop. Although there's a lot of 'em out there, parts are not cheap on these birds.

On the plus side, they are considerably faster than a 172 and running conservatively, are almost as cheap to operate (fuel, oil) as a 172. Plus, it's a BONANZA!!!!

One of my favorite birds - a V35. Those things are just flat-out cool. You KNOW what you're looking at, and you get to fly an airborne Caddy. I love 'em.

Bump for a nice looking plane.

DMc : )

Mine too and me too.


But I'm a little prejudiced.



Jim

Thanks all for the kind words .

Poobs gave pretty much my reasons for not thinking of a Bonanza. True, purchase cost is about the same as some of the other birds I'm looking at, but maintenance costs are a fair bit higher. In addition, insurance would eat me alive being a non-IR pilot without much complex time. Probably $3000/yr and a 20hr-dual before solo limit, if I had to guess.

I have a friend trying to convince me to go Mooney as well... we will see. My goal is, after I sell Bluejay, find different types of aircraft that fit my mission and are in my budget, and go rent them. See how I like it, make notes, and then make a decision from there .

Alex, really enjoyed shopping for airplanes. It was a truly amazing and rewarding journey for me. A Cessna 150 was not even on my list but the Aerobat fit my needs perfectly. For every plane I considered or that was suggested to me, I have a reason for not purchasing.

Alex has it down.

Buying an airplane is like everything else - get the product for the mission you're gonna use it for. Just wanna get in the air? Go with a Warrior or a 150 / 172. Wanna go fast? Mooney, Bonanza, Cirrus. Wanna haul stuff? 206, 182 or Cherokee 6.

I look at it like this - you wouldn't get a Smart car to haul a semi trailer, and you wouldn't take a date to dinner in a garbage truck.

I still like Bonazas, however! You're correct about the insurance, too.

I'm perfectly happy with my 150. Mary Lou doesn't go very far, or go very high, or go very fast, or haul a lot. But for me alone, she's all I need.

That is where I am also, Poobs. Sometimes I get the urge to think about something different, but then I think some more and realize a Cessna 150 fits my "mission" perfectly.

The 150 fits my mission in everything but range and seats. I need 1 extra seat, and more range. Speed has never been what I want, sure, it's nice, but I went from flying airplanes going 140-145kts to flying airplanes doing 95-110kts and didn't care. It's why I've been leaning to a 172, with a 182 just for the possibility to get some extra speed should I ever want it.

Stacey, I feel the same about the Viper. She looks great as long as you stay at least 50 feet away, but get up close and the paint job is hideous, and the interior and seat covers need redone. She's definitely not for show, but I don't look at any of that while I'm flying. She fits my mission - cheap flying, whenever I want and the weather is good, for a lot less than $130/hr.

Alex, this is one beautiful bird. Hopefully someone in the club will pick her up. Best of luck finding a good 172/182 that fits your needs!

I'm perfectly happy with my 150. Mary Lou doesn't go very far, or go very high, or go very fast, or haul a lot. But for me alone, she's all I need.


Poobs, sounds like you have fallen in love all over again.

Bruce

I moved from a 150G to a 172E. I sometimes wish for something snazzier, but I don't regret my decision.

I fly strictly for fun, mostly not very far from my home base. I love being in the air, so getting somewhere faster would just take away from the flying fun!

Unfortunately, sometimes I just don't have as much time as I'd like for flying. This means that it is hard for me to stay current for instrument flying, never mind truly proficient. That means I don't really need a full glass cockpit. A basic VOR and glideslope receiver lets me get an IPC from time to time.

A complex plane for my mission would just mean a lot of extra maintenance expenses.

Having said all that, I'm actually working on my commercial certificate and for now I could use a complex plane for a few hours. I've been flying a Cardinal RG and like it a lot. I'm getting the ticket just for fun, not to pursue an aviation career, though when I retire in a few years I might enjoy teaching. However, if I'm realistic, a 172 is really the right plane for me to own. A fixed gear 182 would be my second choice.

This weekend I saw a picture of the first plane I ever flew in. It was a late 50's 172! It was a picture of my mother and my uncle, who owned the plane. He took up his little brother's wife and tried to scare her a little bit. He didn't succeed. It was a short time after the flight she found out she was pregnant with me! I was already with her when she flew.

Bruce, i've been in love with that bird since day one.

Hey... i'd consider marrying her if she was animate!

She still makes my heart go pitter - patter every time I see her.

It's funny the connection we have with our airplanes, we entrust our lives to them, and make so many great memories with them .

I've posted the plane on Controller, I have some local interest as well, I think things will pick up after the holidays.

You're telling a fib, Poobs. If that were true, you'd never refer to your dearest as "that bird."

Maybe that's why you're single.



Oh wait....I am too...



.....never mind

...you have a point...

Bumping this .

Are you getting many nibbles Alex? Hung's 152 sold so fast I was hopeful 150/152's were truthfully getting difficult to find as I have been told by my mechanic.

Good luck again.

Yeah, his did sell fast! I've had a lot of interest, but nothing has moved much other than sending over logs and answering questions. Might have a few people coming out to look at the plane this weekend.

A few interested people said that finding nice 150s was getting pretty hard and they tend to get snatched up pretty quick!

Thanks Stacey!

The key is NICE 150's. Thee are a slew of 150's - 152's out there, but the sad past is too many of them are seen as throwaway birds, so to speak. Many are just sitting rotting away.

That's due to my "used car salesman" talk, or a low price

Hotel Pappa smoothed talked me into 38H.

I think I will be very grateful if I can ever get back up there to get her!

Haha! Want to come down to Texas and help a fellow out??

Well, my buyer had been to Vietnam during the war so he understands my language. I'm not sure your potential buyers do.

Yeah, sure he does. I've been listening to it for 15 years, all I got was Hello, thank you, congratulations, and now Yes dear.

Sounds like it will take you another 15 years before you can understand what she's cooking for dinner.

Banh Mi, or Pho. I could live off those two things for the rest of my life, and never complain.

I think we should get off Alex's thread.

That's alright... I think pages 2-3 were people talking about how much they loved their 150s, so only about 4 comments have been about the plane so far.

No harm done, always good to hear how much love people have for their aircraft (and Vietnamese food)

That's ultimately why I went ahead and bought the Viper. I knew she needed work, but all the nice 150's were either out of my price range, or so far away that getting them home wasn't financially and/or logistically feasible for me. Might take a few years, but Viper will be a nice 150 when I'm done.

I'll keep an eye on the thread. Mind if I print out the details and hang them up on the board at our FBO? I'm sure one of the Lincoln City guys or even one of the CFIs would fly one of the local students down to Houston if they're interested (my CFI used to do it all the time).

That would be great, I'd appreciate that Brian! Thanks!

Sorry about all the typos. Spell check is acting very strange, even with pretty extensive proofing.

You bet. Headed out to the field this evening to drop off the check for this month's hangar rent, will print it out and hang it up.

Feels a little bittersweet to announce that the sale is pending on my airplane. The new buyer is flying down tomorrow to close the sale and fly her to her new home.

She's been a great airplane, I've flown her all over Texas, I've taken her to Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and almost skirted into Florida. I've introduced almost a dozen people to aviation in her, many having their first flight in a small airplane in the comfort of her right seat. I've taken up family in this plane, and done everything from $100 hamburgers to $100 BBQ runs. She has always gotten me to where I'm going in one piece, and has been fun to fly along the way. Though I know I'm going to be moving up to a bigger airplane, N1679Q is the first airplane I've ever owned, and I'll always fondly remember flying her.

Alex,

Great. I'm glad it sold in a short time, too. Someone's getting a nice 150 and you've still got more flying to do, as well. :-)

Tim

Congratulations, Alex! I hope the new owner decides to join the Club so Bluejay doesn't get lonely .

Congratulations! Keep us posted with what you end up getting. Good luck!

Awesome news, congrats on the quick sale!

Thanks all . After the prebuy yesterday, we met this morning and he looked over the airplane, started her up, and was very happy with it. We closed the sale this morning and I bought him a tank of AvGas and he flew away. I suggested to him to join this club and meet all the great people here and all you can learn about 150s.

Thank you all for the kind comments, she's been a great plane and I'm sure she'll be a great plane for her new owner.

And I'm not going anywhere, even though my plane is changing, I'm staying with you fine folks a little while longer!

Not sure if you've mentioned it before, but do you have a replacement plane yet?

Not yet... I've kept my eye on the market and it's pretty dead at the moment for 172s, I may rent for a few months and wait until spring when it livens back up.

Where are you based? I think you weren't far from me (I'm at KRYW).