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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.