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Piper Cherokee Six

THE weird thing about four-seat aircraft is that most of them aren't built with four adults in mind. Not with full fuel.

Now six-seaters are genuine four-adult aircraft. Maybe five if the fifth is normally found making his money at a circus and has the stage name 'Shorty'.

The Cherokee Six is a true four-seat adult aircraft plus luggage. If you've got a large family - two adults, three (smallish) children and a Grandad - then the Six can you all plus full fuel and in approximately four hours you're in the south of France from Al and Bob's airfield in Norfolk.

That's the point of having an aircraft like this. It gives you options. A four baller with your mates at Le Touquet Golf Club taking your own clubs becomes possible with a Cherokee Six.

Al Coutts, who is normally seen flying a Pitts S2B, and Bob Boyall, a licenced engineer of some 40 years, have joined forces to buy aircraft that have been written off by underwriters.

For the duo to consider buying such an aircraft they have just one rule - the aircraft must have only suffered cosmetic damage. The Cherokee Six had gone through a hedge at the end of a runway. It suffered damage to the skin, a shock-loaded engine and a damaged propeller, and thus fell upon the gazes of Al and Bob.

Skin damage can be a positive point in an aircraft's history.
If an aircraft has suffered skin damage, it needs repairing. If it needs repairing, it needs to be stripped down and has a complete structural inspection.

In this aircraft, the engine has also been completely overhauled and zero-timed. It has a new three-blade Hartzell propeller - in fact, everything forward of the firewall is new.

Just as important, you get after-sales service with aircraft bought from Al & Bob which includes five hours conversion training. All paid for. Including the insurance.

You also get your own colour scheme (that's why the aircraft has been left white), and a full year's warranty on consumer items such as tyres, brake fluid, spark plugs, oil filters, brake pads, tyres and a whole host of other items.

You also get the first annual free of charge. It's as hassle-free as buying a secondhand aircraft gets. What's more, they'll deliver it free of charge to anywhere in mainland Europe.

The avionics on the Cherokee Six include twin VOR Glidescopes, DME, Skymap III, ADF, Autopilot, twin Navcomms and six-place intercom which enables you to turn off your noisy passengers in the back.
So why don't they do this with more aircraft I ask?

"We want to be small scale," they say. "We love aircraft and doing them up right. So far we've completed four aircraft and the four buyers are very happy and by keeping it small we can provide a great service, it's fun for us."
Nice work fellas.

What's Hot:
Zero-timed engine
New Hartzell three-blade prop
After-sales service
Personal paint scheme
First Annual
One year warranty
Price: £50,000
Contact: 01636 525318

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