n950cb
n950cb-- uc-1 twinseabee
1974 serial number 16---
purchased janurary 2007, had been sitting outside for 19 years at flagler county airport
was moved there from norwood, mass
former owner had taken the plane apart to truck it to flagler but never put it back together
this is how we found her, in pieces
beware of salvage sales as they are not all they are made out to be.......
950cb has been rebuild from the ground up.......
new wheels, brakes , tires
new glass all around, as some of the glass had been broken out
tail feather are complete and finished
complete paint inside and out
new hoses and cables
new pitot tube
seats recovered with faa approved materials
new mags, new alternators, 4 new fuel pumps,new plugs,new fuel servos,new starters, 2 new batteries, new flywheels, new belts, new com antennaes, new oil coolers, etc and work continues
new fuel bladder
new tailwheel
twinbee specs
airframe time 2900 hours one of the lowest time frames in the fleet
left and right engines 0 hours
left and right props 0 hours. but now we find out someone at flagler county airport had taken one of the props and put it on their plane and had flown with it for unknown hours
four(4) newly covered seats with faa materials
and now the engines.....we purchased engines with 296 hours on them but when we went to pick up the plane
we were given blocks with "0" time and no accessories and i mean none
everything on the engines is new
mags, alternators,fuel lines, starters, injectors,vaccums,spark plugs,servos,oil coolers
all parts are new and never run......zero time engines and all new accessories and no we did not have any cores to turn in so you can figure what we have spent just on the engines to this point
last of the great flying boats
there are only 8 or 9 or these beautiful planes still flying
new fuel cell 75 gal. the original was 85 gal. but none are being produced today
twinseabee n 950cb is finished june 2009
it has been a long journey, but lenny francis and staff did a beautiful restoration on the airplane
many thanks for all the help from those locally and those over the internet and the suppliers that looked high and low for the necessary parts
a special thanks to leonard francis for taking 8 months of his life to bring this bird back to life
we could not have done it without you