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A member of my EAA chapter recently passed away who had bought this aircraft. I'm helping his widow sell the plane. 

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No current registration.  I didn't dig too deep into the paperwork but sometime before 2006 the aircraft was wrecked and the FAA revoked the registration and airworthiness cert.  The gentleman's goal was to get it airworthy but fell ill shortly after buying the plane.

It is a nose dragger with some flavor of VW on the front.  The firewall has been beefed up for the heavier engine and in the pics you'll notice a elliptical shaped gas tank under the cockpit. 

About all he managed to do was buy a 582 with a Kitfox motor mount. I didn't find any documentation(but didn't look carefully either) for the engine but it looks like it might have been recently overhauled as its nearly spotless. I did put a call into Rotax Rick and he said that without documentation it's worth about 2k.

As far as the rest of the aircraft goes I didn't look close but there's no obvious signs of major damage. Wings and Flaperons look to be in good condition.  

Asking $6000 OBO. The widow wants it all gone at once, so no parting out unless you take the whole thing and do it yourself. 

Located in Salt Lake City Utah

Call me if interested:

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I can't believe that in 7 months there's no one with a set of 3.47 C gearbox gears setting on a garage/hanger shelf. Unobtainable parts I guess.

Brad

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Another point is don't trust the gas station not to have alcohol contamination in their supposed clean fuel.

An easy way to test is with plain food coloring.  Put a sample of fuel in a clear container and add a couple drops of food coloring and mix it.  If it turns the fuel colored that means thee ethanol dissolved the water based die.  If the food coloring just makes a droplet in the bottom and doesn't mix, you have clean fuel.

Hey y'all, Turbo here.  3 years ago sold my Avid. Now flying Corvair-powered Sonex.  Can't complain about 3.5 gph at 125 mph.  I only land on tarmac, though.

When I had the Avid, I fed it ethanol-free premium, like I feed my chainsaws.  All went well until my first set of Bing carb floats sank!  I bought  new ones, but even they eventually sank!  And I noticed that my epoxy gas tank was softening!  I started wondering what bizarre chemistry was in that fuel.  Got a clue much more recently, which I feel compelled to share.  It could be due to ethanol!  Many times, so-called ethanol-free gas really isn't, not due to any oil company shenanigans, but simply because many gas stations dispense  ethanol-free gas from the same hose as the other grades, and the last guy who hosered up may have inadvertently left some 10-% ethanol, 87- octane gas in the hose!  My advice (really from Chicanic) is to, after selecting the ethanol-free stuff, first put a half- gallon of gas into your car, then start filling those gas cans.  This clears out the hose.

FWIW, Guys. Take care, and fly safe,

Turbo

Yes!  Me!  How would I get info?   I sent you a PM.  

for sale; hirth fuel injection system less fuel pump. appears to be new never used. came off a 2706 65hp. date on ecm is 12/04 asking $500.00

Friend of mine will be putting up, avid + 90% done, Covered and painted with a Subaru, any interest!!!

I need 4 measurements to get this tail on right. It's a 4 classic. I hope some one can has a frame, or can feel the longerons just forward of the handle as indicated.

The tail was cutoff and I need to replace the cut and bent tubes.

Thank you in advance.

Thanks TJ I remember seeing your post and that was a source of inspiration for my project!

Very nice work I have some of those too. I just modified the newer ones. probably not as nice as yours will be.  I do like the looks of them.

The propellers are currently equipped with the following types of hubs: Rotax 3", Rotax 4", SAE-1, SAE-2, Jabiru.  

That propeller is gone. The gray propeller remains.

Hi all,  I saw this on barnstormers last week and after talking to the seller, I ended up getting a 28 YD long piece.  It came today, and I'm happy with it.  I did try to shrink one corner of it, and it acted just like regular aircraft fabric would.  It's the same stuff as aircraft spruce used to sell according to the seller.  I covered several airplanes with that stuff over the years with no problems.  Sort of a no brainer for me, $4.25  a yd, verses about $17.00 for the stuff with a stamp on it.  Anyway, I thought it was a good deal.  He did take it off of a roll and ship it folded, but not in such a way that it got wrinkled.  I put it onto a roll tonight and it's not at all wrinkled, shipping probably would have been twice as much in a 6' long tube verses about a 12x12x16" box.  JImChuk

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Avid Magnum project for sale registered with airworthiness had a gear leg failure causing damage to the  flaperon. The gear legs have been replaced wing ribs have been repaired and covered needs rib stitched. Flaperon needs repaired . lycoming IO-360 Flyefii fuel and ignition , engine was disassembled for inspection from sitting just got the crank back from aircraft specialties with bearings and gasket kit ready to be reassembled firewall needs finished serious inquiries only please located Buhl ,ID U03 

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I think but am not positive that the KF TW main gear does not sweep forward like the Avid TW main gear. I seem to remember that the gear attach points are further forward on the KF than on the Avid fuselage. (But I DO NOT know for sure and have very little experience with kitfoxes) At the very least double check. Or maybe someone here knows for sure. 

I can make them but these would save time.  Actually I'd like to remodel them to accept shocks for the next plane. My scratch built Avid has the Kitfox standard gear and the 582 motor mount, the only items I cheated on. 

The Kitfox gear should bolt onto the Avid attachment points.  Same dimensions.  I tried to put some Avid Flyer gear on a Kitfox 1 once, and the 1/2" brace tubing was in the way of where the bungee fit over the seat truss.  Kitfox on an Avid would probably have cleared in that area.  Here is a picture of where we put my spare Avid gear on a tricycle geared Kitfox 4 so it would fit on my taildragger style trailer when we hauled it home.  It was tied together at the axels so bungees were never used.  Once we got it home and the repairs were done, we put the nose dragger grove gear back on.  JImChuk

Would you ship to Canada? I have purchased a set from the US awhile back, worked out well. 

Hi Cloud Dancer.  You didn't write books about flying in AK by chance?  Decent chance they may work.  If you can send me the dimensions of the mounting points I'll be happy to measure the gear next time I'm at the hangar.  I have an Avid project I'm selling.  Half inclined to keep it as so many things would interchange with my Kitfox IV.

I'm curious if these would work on an Avid Flyer? I suppose if the attachment point width were the same on both airplanes they might work? I'm still looking for a standard gear to replace the tricycle gear on my Avid Flyer.

The newer Kitfox are wider inside but I have no idea if the attachment points were widened out as well.

On every Avid and Kitfox I widened I had to taper the lift strut fairing to make room for the wider fuselage.  This is my last Kitfox 4 lift strut.  JImChuk

Hope you did take into consideration when wings are folded on my plane, (which don’t believe with the seat says, foxes upholstery was cheaper than Avid’s) there’s only quarter inch of clearance from the strut faring to the fabric. See attached picture

hey thanks for the reply looks good! i'll get some photos of mine up soon.

Hello, i did it just a couple of weeks ago, this is my Method, i think its great!