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1941 PORTERFIELD FP 65 • $27,000 • FOR SALE BY OWNER • 1941 Porterfield FP-65 Showpiece! Always…Continue
Started Jun 10
1940 PORTERFIELD • $750 • FOR SALE CHEAP • For parts. No paperwork/logs. Fuselage, tail, wings &…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Lyle Strader Jan 4.
Larry Kent, of Gaylord, MI stumbled on this Porterfield. He doesn't have the time to build this bird that's well on its way...so he's selling her. He will sell her for what he has in her: $5k. She…Continue
Started Dec 2, 2024
This may be another Porterfield of Rick Wood's. The link below didn't work for me, as I don't do Facebook. Hopefully, it will work for you. Otherwise, contact Rick Wood (see the previous, recent…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Bill Skinner Nov 1, 2024.
I'm sitting in KMHT, writing this while waiting for my flight which should be wheels up in about 10 hours. I fly to Newark, then to Seattle, then to Great Falls, and should be wheels down at KHLN about midnight (about 31 hours from now). Hey, I live in New England! We can't get anywhere from here! 41VT is at Boulder (K3U9) Airport, about 25 miles south of Helena, MT. I'll buy a used bike Wednesday morning (I hope), and pedal on down to Boulder to start prepping myself and 41VT for our…
ContinuePosted on October 14, 2013 at 6:30am — 3 Comments
DESCRIPTION: NC41VT is a 1941 FP-65, S/N 875, with an STC’d Franklin 90 installation, completed by Angelo Forte in the mid-50’s, turning a Flottorp wood prop. She has fresh Polyfiber covering and finish with the factory red and silver color scheme (ball with 2 stripes on each side). Medium weight fabric was used throughout, with heavy weight fabric used on the belly and lower surfaces of the horizontal stabilizers and elevators. The instrument panel is the deluxe version, made to…
ContinuePosted on July 23, 2013 at 9:30pm
After tinkering for over three years on my Collegiate, the novelty finally wore off for Pokey Gordon and he asked me to remove the old girl from his shop in Helena, MT. Club member Tim Talen, who has a hangar in Boulder, MT, about 30 miles south of Helena, came to the rescue and arranged for a Boulder friend of his to rent a truck and haul the project to his hangar.
Tim's is a master restorer who specializes in Interstate Aircraft. I restored an Interstate Cadet back in the 80's…
ContinuePosted on April 12, 2013 at 1:00pm — 4 Comments
FOR SALE • 1940 PORTERFIELD CP-65 Collegiate $25,000 LSA Qualified. First Collegiate 499.9 SMOH. 5519.1 TT. Hangered since restoration in 1967. Flying Airplane. All logs Books available on PDF. Current annual good to 01/31/2014. Located at AJO. Corona municipal airport, CA USA. Telephone: Contact Eric 951-247-9541 • Contact…
ContinuePosted on March 3, 2013 at 1:10pm — 1 Comment
Thank you Andy for getting back with me and thanks for the info.
Hello Andy, I have had my Porterfield NC37850 for just about a year. I have been taking flight instruction in my bird and my instructor can't stop commenting on what a great flying airplane the Porterfield is. He had never heard of a Porterfield until I bought mine. As far as flight instruction is concerned, we calculated best glide but where can I find more Porterfield information, like vx, vy. Thank you for your help.
Thanks for the warm welcome Andy!! I’m actually picking up the project tomorrow and will be asking many questions on here, as I’m not too familiar with the Porterfield construction. That and I’m sure there’s missing parts besides the obvious firewall forward. Just was too neat of a little plane to not scoop up and give it a second chance.
Lyle
mr. bowers died i bought it from his son
havent picked it up yet its still in ar. it should be flying in the summer needs a little work
Understood. Just in case it helps, I have been a member of this group in the past, and I'm not sure if my old membership might still be taking up a space. I believe it was under b.lovett@att.net, but I re-registered because I couldn't get signed into it to update my email address. (I was also on Chuck Lebrecht's mailing list many years ago.) If my old account is still here, please feel free to purge it.
27259 is now in London OH. Still flying on what it should be 1800ft of grass.
Thanks for adding me to your group Andy! I'm interested in finding a Porterfield as I've lived my entire 53 years in the Kansas City area. A good friend of mine had a project when we were in A&P school but he never finished it before letting it go. Dave
Thank you, Andy. That certainly clears up some of the mystery about front/rear seat solo flight in the Porterfield. The airplane I plan to purchase (John Elliott’s Collegiate) has had the little Lycoming 65hp engine replaced with a Continental C-85, which I imagine is heavier. With John’s help, I’ll be taking a close look at the W&B before I fly her.
Thank you very much, Andy, for welcoming me to the club.
I have sat in both seats of the Porterfield. When I sat in the front seat, it reminded me of the two Dehavilland Chipmunks I owned. The instrument panel in the Chipmunk is very close to your face, also, though not as close as the panel in the Porterfield.
Regarding solo flight from the front seat…there are pictures and videos online of Porterfields being flown solo from the front and the back seat. I look forward to learning more about that mystery.
You asked what happened to my DH-1. I assume you mean my second DHC-1 Chipmunk, which was sold about 18 months ago to an individual who keeps it based on a grass field east of St. Louis. I replaced the Chipmunk with the aircraft that replaced the Chipmunk in RAF service as a primary trainer, the Scottish Aviation Bulldog. Nice airplane, but the little wheel in the back isn’t there…they put it up front, under the engine, and made it larger! Sacrilege!!! After 18 months of no tailwheel time (and really missing that kind of flying), I started looking for something with a tailwheel that was different from Cubs, Champs, etc. Since there were no Spitfires on the market at the time (that I could afford), I began searching for a Porterfield. Happy to say that I found one.
Again, thanks for the welcome. Looking forward to continuing my education regarding the skinny bird.
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