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Welcome to the Website for N5814L The Online Refurbishment Record of 1972 Grumman AA-5 Traveler N5914L Serial Number AA5-0014 |
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Who found who? Does the plane sometimes choose the owner? Imagine that you have been flying around for a while with your friend in his very cool little Grumman AA-1 Yankee. The thing is an absolute blast and it's darned cute too. He's been a heck of a guy and even listed you as a pilot on his insurance! |
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Even with that extreme level of generosity, a couple of problems start to creep into the arrangement. You have a family of four and some of them would even like to go flying with you now and then. Also, you and your friend are typical American males (at least in terms of mass). |
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So, the limitations of the Yankee begin to pervade every conversation about flying it. On one hand, it's a great motivator toward loosing weight... if we lost 15 pounds each, we could fly for another hour and/or perhaps actually get more than about 40 minutes from home durring a local flight. Sure, that's great in theory, but my bathroom scale has been consistently calling your bluff for months now. |
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Also, my two kids want to go flying and I'd like to load up the whole family, fill the tanks pile in a weekends worth of bags, and go exploring. Okay, we are simply not talking about a Yankee anymore. However, both you and your friend find that your mission requirements (and finance requirements) seem to keep keep bringing your conversations around to the AA5-nothin'; the Traveler. Oh well, a guy can always dream. |
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Fast forward a bit. Now you need a BFR and you need to go with an American Yankee Association-approved instructor. If you live in the northern Puget Sound area, that really ought to be Dave Wheeler at Northwest Aviation Center. |
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So here you are at Arlington Muni on one of the nastiest weather days of the season, clearly not going flying, but perhaps you can knock out the ground instruction portion of the review. Dave takes you and your friend on a tour of their new facility, and as you walk into the hangar he gestures to a forlorn and neglected-looking plane still in its original Nixon-era orange, blue, and white paint scheme and says, "hey, either of you wanna buy a Traveler?" |
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| I'm just asking... what would you do in a situation like that? |
This page last updated on 08/06/2018