MEYERS 200 IF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE MEYERS COMMANDER 200 YOU KNOW IT IS THE HOTROD OF THE AIR..



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Make: MEYERS Model Year: 200
IF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE MEYERS/COMMANDER 200 YOU KNOW IT IS THE HOTROD OF THE AIR. CLOSEST THING TO A P51 IN FEEL AND PERFORMANCE AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. DOES BARREL ROLLS AROUND BONANZAS AND BELLANCAS. COMANCHE 400 CANT KEEP UP. AND IT IS A COMFORTABLE FOUR PLACE SINGLE WITH A THOUSAND MILE RANGE. N485C holds world records including the first single engine single pilot airplane to fly around the world. Some legs were 18 hours long. It carried 480 gallons .P> THE MEYERS HAS NEVER HAD AN AD ON THE AIRFRAME AND Have all logs from day one. 4300TT and UPGRADED ENGINE HAS 1320 smoh. IO470U compressions 78/74/72/74/72/78 cold and as you know that is excellent on a big continental. burns 12 gal at 190/200 mph. annual due 5/1/16. new windshield and door glass. Aircraft ia located IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA at Jackson County Airport 24A; please ask all questions and come look and do any inspections before close of auction. We can deliver for basic expenses only but please discuss that before auction closes. Payment is 10% day after close of auction and balance before it leaves here. Please don"t think we will bring it to for you to look at it before payment. Paint is within last year and interior is high quality but not new. avionics are King MX1700 and wired for second one. Garmin 696 GPS xponder encoder etc glideslope and HSI. will add more photos but if you want to see something spefic call me at 423 231 3491 There is no way to describe the feeling you get when tooling along at 200mph and see a cloud out front and just before reaching it you pull back on the yoke and literally leap a couple thousand feet over it. then drop the gear at that speed and push the nose over and drop flaps and make the runway just under you. This thing lands easier than any thing else out there. Trade? call 423 231 3491 jerry 4>
Gluckman Solo Round-the-World Flight
Peter Gluckmann was known as the "Flying Watchmaker." He had been flying for almost ten years hopping oceans on an almost routine basis since 1953. He wanted to become the biggest man (250 lbs) to fly the smallest plane round-the-world breaking the speed record for a solo flight rtw. He chose a Meyers 200A single 260 HP (Continental IO-470D) engine, low wing plane built by Meyers Aircraft Company to make this record-breaking attempt. He added extra ferry fuel tanks and N485C carried "Experimental" markings. His flight plan was made to Federation Aeronautique Internationnale (FAI) standards and his flight log documented 23,765 flown miles. He holds the solo RTW speed record (29D 6H 9M) Departed San Francisco, CA 08/22/59 Mazatlan, Mexico San Jose, Guatemala Puerto Barrios, Guatemala Kingston, Jamaica San Juan, Puerto Rico 08/26/59 (See Note 1) Santa Maria, Azores Lisbon, Portugal Benghazi, Libya Cairo, Egypt Karachi, Pakistan 08/30/59 (See Note 2) New Delhi, India 09/01/59 Calcutta, India 09/02/59 (See Note 3) Bangkok, Thailand (See Note 4) Manila, Philippines (See Note 5) Hong Kong Tokyo, Japan 09/06/59 (See Note 6) Wake Island 09/15/59 (See Note 7) Honolulu, HI 09/17/59 (See Note 8) Arrived San Francisco, CA 09/20/59 > THE MEYERS USED A SINGLE FUEL GUAGE WITH SELECTOR DECIDING WHICH TANK TO SHOW. THAT WAS A WEAK POINT, N485C HAS INDIVIDUAL FUEL GUAGES AS SHOWN. N485C FLEW AROUND THE WORLD BUT THE LONGEST FLIGHT I MADE IN MEYERS WAS TO BIGGEN HILL IN LONDON ENGLAND. Dean Siracusa of Austin Texas is a Meyers Guru, having written extensively and is producer of the Meyers owners association. A good man to know as he has access to manuals and lots of paperwork. meyersaircraftowners.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=5&Itemid=25 deans-world.com/Meyers200/Welcome.html Plane & Pilot - October 1966 Inflight Test: Aero Commander 200 By Don Downie Want to fly the fastest conventional four-placer in the country? Then head for your nearest Aero Commander showroom and ask about their 200. It"s won the Pendleton, Oregon, races for the past" three years, finished 1-2-3 in Phoenix in 1963 and Game in 1-2-3 and 4 at Bakersfield this year. Just for good measure; last July 3rd two Commander 200s set new speed records in the C-1.b and C-1.c class flying at 227.6 MPH and 239.5 MPH respectiveIy over a measured 3 ~ilometer course. Last September, Jerrie Mock set 203 .858 miles per hour world"s record in the 200 flying over a 500 kilometer dosed course. The winner of the Bakersfield and Pendleton airplane races, and holder of one of the 3 kilometer records, Bill Broadbeck, checked us out in the 200. His average speed at Bakersfield for 100 miles around a 4 mile, 6-pylon course was 199.9 MPH. Current date: 2015-09-07