It turns out that I missed my mission definition pretty badly when I came up with my SportHawk. I built it to fly my wife and myself back and forth between Midland, TX and Ruidoso, NM, a trip of 225 miles. The little airplane does a great job of hauling us, the cat and our junk back and forth but it is just too snug to suit us; I am 9?2? and Ann is 5?9?.
In our pre 210 days we had a 182 and really did like it. Ann is tickled to death with the size and comfort of the bigger plane. I like the stability and range; it is a great IFR platform.
The SportHawk will be on the market as soon as it finishes being an organ donor to the 182; I am moving the auto pilot,
It will be a sad day when the SportHawk leaves the nest. It a great little airplane and I have had more pure fun in it than any other plane that I have ever owned.
Attached is a picture (not very good) of my new bird.
