Introduce your Navion! Photos, please!

[JamCoats]

@NAviator , @B52Flyer , @robobobor, @N8969H, @BOB N2460T, @Roddy Noll - these are great looking airplanes! Keep em coming! Bob, a Navion BELONGS on a grass strip, whenever possible!

@billla I have never seen the "before" pic of your airplane... you've done a lot of work!

@Bzastrow we are glad to have you and your family in the Navion community! Been following your new journey on Facebook.

@N5392K - I am actually in PA from time to time - we normally go to Hershey for the AACA Carshow (world's largest antique car show, for those unfamiliar) in October each year, right down the street! Will have to look you up!

@James , we're glad someone is over there in the UK representing! I am a bit of an Anglophile myself, so it's good to see we've got a Rangemaster on that side of the pond!

Glad to have you all!

[James]

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Couldn’t agree more.. 2-RIOH at her “other home” - a microlight strip near my office. 400m of grass where normal GA very rarely ventures to. Amazingly capable short
Field machine even full of fuel..

[meallene]

Heres my Birdie!N4317K-9 NAA modelA ,currently undergoing upgrading FWF to IO470,Thanks Allen Edwards 813 osbornes St Saint Marys GA 31558 -8408 Atlantic oceanside!She's my favorite Lady in my life besides my kiddo and pup

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[oldskydog]

I have 2 1946 North American Navions, 91125 Serial #4-60 and 91165 Serial # 4-218. I bought 91165 in 1999 as a flying project with a 205 engine and an original HC-12x20-5 Hartzite prop. It has been sitting for a number of years and would be for sale as is if anyone is interested. West ?Coast airplane all its life so no corrsion issues.
91125 is my flyer that I bought from a friend after a nose gear collapse. I rebuilt everything and it still flys with an E-225 and HC-A2V20-4A1 dome prop.
I flew it to Oshkosh in 2015 where it was photographed at night duriing the airshow and the pic appeared in the EAA magazine. After that trip I developed the dreaded fuel leak and had to demate the wings and installed the beef up kit . Just installed a Plane Power alternator conversion after my generator failed. I have an I0-520B core with prop and basket but haven't decided yet if I want to install it. May be listing it all as I'm getting too old for this stuff after flying for 55 years now.
Cecil

[Zach8910]

N8910H
Bought late ‘17
She’s an early 47, a field converted F (the only one I know of) owner was friends with an engineer at tusco, Hurricane came and they went and grabbed parts from the building. Well 50 years later I bought it in “great shape”. Which is why after owning it for 18 hours of flying she’s getting a full panel, and a 520. The 470 was in dire shape. It didn’t have much time on it over many years and while there wasn’t a ton of corrosion, it was just enough to not want to glide behind. Being a phase 1 case, and having about 8 AD’s to comply with, it’s now on an airboat. Progress is slower than I hoped, but I’ll do it once and do it right and then just be able to fly it. Still have some stuff for sale for you io470h boys!

[Cfitchen]

Hello folks, my Navion is a ‘48 A model, N4549K Nav-4-1549, with an IO-470H from Matt Jackson. It spent its early days in California, then on to Colorado and Minnesota before moving to Massachusetts. I brought it to Poplar Grove, IL, sight unseen, last year after a pre-buy inspection by Rip Quinby. Many thanks to Erich Rempert and Pat Peterson at Burlington Air Center, who did my first annual and a major panel installation. I’m over 100 hrs now and love the way it flies.

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[Colorado Brett]

1946 NA Navion. E-225
KCOS

[BRT383]

David, I know that airplane and I know it well. For many years, it sat derelict at my home airport, 9A9 (Shiflet Field) in Marion, NC. It was reconditioned by Dale Lunsford, Lynn Mace, and Ricky Gardener at Aviation Technology in Marion in the early 2000s. Owned by Bill Ledbetter until he passed away. I actually looked at buying it this summer when it was for sale at KFQD! And yes, the fun ALWAYS begins!!

James

James, I thought I recognized that paint scheme. Glad it’s found a good home.

[NaviHawk]

Hi all. Proud owner of N9559Z. She’s a 1948 Ryan model. Had a 225 when I bought her but has been in the various stages of engine swap and maintenance conversion to an IO-470H for far too long now. After rolling off the factory line, she headed to Mexico for survey work with an oil company. She came home to Arizona in the mid-50s and jumped around between several owners but Mr. Bob Allen ( a former B-25 and C-47 pilot from the CBI theater) owned her the longest. She’d also been lovingly cared for my the McMahon, McSpaddens and the Herrington families before I bought her in 2012 before heading to Afghanistan.

[N2448T]

N2448T

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Formerly owned by Jack (R.I.P.) and Shirley Gordon, I purchased N2448T in 2010. I am still going through repair and restoration, but my goal is to have 48T back in the air next year (2020) before the ten year anniversary of its accident in 2010.