Annual Inspection Hangar Runway 
Gary's Flight Journal
JUNE 7, 2024
Day 1 Reposition It’s that time of year, annual inspection for our Commander. I took off from runway three-two and pointed for New Garden Airport, N57. I helped hangar Anita and Dave’s Sierra then got a ride over to the Ocean City airport. We finished lunch then Mary ran me over to pick up my SUV at the hangar.
Air Facts
AUGUST 5, 2024
It has a mid-time engine (O-320-D3G rated at 160 hp), fairly recent annual inspection and 24 month pitot-ptatic/transponder test. A friend reminds you of a couple additional nuggets of due diligence to be reckoned with—a hangar and insurance. Next you look at NOTAM’s once again and notice that Runways 8R and 26L are closed.
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Plane and Pilot
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Your next-door hangar neighbor says, “probably needs new spark plugs ,” and the CFI at the flight school tells you to try a favorite trick that always works on his E-series Continental. He knows its history better than anyone and is responsible for performing the next annual inspection, thereby determining its fate.
Air Facts
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Because of this situation, I had to learn how to flight plan a flight of 1,120 nm up in the flight levels from Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania (KMPO), where the airplane is hangared, to Key West. When we reached the end of the departure runway, the moment of truth was at hand. We would shoot some approaches there, then return IFR to PGD.
Plane and Pilot
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Your next-door hangar neighbor says, “probably needs new spark plugs ,” and the CFI at the flight school tells you to try a favorite trick that always works on his E-series Continental. He knows its history better than anyone and is responsible for performing the next annual inspection, thereby determining its fate.
Air Facts
DECEMBER 2, 2024
His PA-30, also known as a Twinkie, had just come out of an extensive factory annual inspection. He was waiting for me at his hangar when I drove up. After introductions, Max slid the hangar doors open. Descending through the clouds, his windscreen iced over, he broke out just in time to make the runway.
Vintage Aviation News
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
This was the same aircraft where the Bellanca Aircraft Company set up its factory and where Air Service had built a new hangar in 1935 on the site of one that had burned in 1934 (Today, Air Service’s 1935 hangar now serves as the home of the Bellanca Airfield Museum). I went by Tom’s hangar to get his opinion.
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