Air Mail Helio Super Courier and Piper Super Cub 1 maintained, and I flew it in 1979 for some 42.5 hours Very nice write-up, Jim. Stephen Ruby Helio Aircraft Owners Network Oshkosh, Wisconsin
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Hello Jim, Just read your article on Aaron’s Helio Super Courier N4157D No. 509 which was built in March of that year. The early 395s had a gross weight of 3,000 pounds and were never a favorite of the contraband smuggling crowd due to their slow cruise and less than 1,000 pound payload. The H-395 was the choice of special ops for Air America with persistence from Maj. Heinie Aderholt who convinced the Air Force to purchase them for use in Laos as early as 1960. They flew routinely from “Lima” sites: downhill, uphill, and sometimes off curved paths. The airplane Aaron had was the only Helio with no damage history and the reason he bought it. It is powered with the Lycoming “geared” GO-480-G1D6 (295 hp), and that lasts only four minutes; all other operations are at 280 hp due to the planetary-gear-driven slow-turning three-blade Hartzell of 96 inches. With only 60 gallons of avgas you get an endurance of under four hours at 130 knots on a good day. Aaron has since sold that airplane to a group in Russia, as he needed something with more payload and speed. N4157D was sold last November 25, 2012. For an airplane of this vintage, it was very well4
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Jim, Just thought I would drop you a line and a quick story. I was looking through the September/October Vintage Airplane, and I came across this article of S/N No. 1 Super Cub. My dad, Kip Mone, says old man Piper called him (Kip Mone) and understood he ferried airplanes, among other things. My dad said yes. So he and a friend raced to pick up the plane and fly it to Florida so it could do some “tests.” The tests were takeoff distance, service ceiling, and so on. It turns out it was the Piper Super Cub. If I recall, Carole Bailey did some of the flying. She was a friend of my dad’s. They landed in a street, and a girl came out with orange juice. After all it was Florida. . . The highway patrolman closed the highway so they could take off and continue the flight. My dad did a lot of air racing in Cleveland, air shows, and other show flying. Many stories. He is now 90 and living alone in the mountains at the end of a dirt runway. We are restoring the last Garland Lincoln Nieuport 28 (N12237, www.GarlandLincoln.com). Brent Mone
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