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Will it start? - Barn Find Bonanza sits Hangered for 34 years!
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Күн бұрынCheck out this 1957 BE35H found covered in a hanger for the last 34 years. Last annual in 1988. Check out this first video by Asylum Air!
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@mattgreven7615 2 жыл бұрын
I've never seen the "mouse guards" before--they certainly changed the fate of that Bonanza!
@jwoodyr1 2 жыл бұрын
Me neither but they're brilliant! It seems they worked perfectly.
@tomgaddis5020 2 жыл бұрын
Farmers been using the sheet metal rodent guards for years around combines
@wolfgagger 2 жыл бұрын
an old trick!
@nikolatesla5553 2 жыл бұрын
That's a beautiful aircraft. Given how long it has been sitting, I expected a mess. But instead it looks like a well maintained classic car. The interior looks fantastic. Some of those V-tails included control surfaces that were made with magnesium instead of aluminum and they are notorious for oxidization.
@bertram-raven 2 жыл бұрын
Magnesium-alloy oxidation is usually very easy to spot. Aluminium oxidation, however, is a killer and is notoriously difficult to see. Instead of forming an even coating of aluminium-oxide, the 'rust' goes into the metal and snakes around creating oxide tunnels and making the material friable. Once aluminium has that 'cancer' it cannot be repaired. This is the reason most aluminium objects are coated with plastic - it oxidises far too easily. Aluminium used for food and drinks cans is coated in plastic to stop aluminium leeching into the food product; aluminium is very bad for the brain, causing Alzheimer's like damage! This does not mean I am telling you to get rid of any aluminium pots and pans you have around the house, but maybe replace them over time. As for aircraft, after checking any aluminium is solid it is wise to coat it everywhere - simple lacquer spray out of sight and primed and painted outside; check the coating for damage regularly and touch up and flaking immediately.
@nikolatesla5553 2 жыл бұрын
@@bertram-raven I am certainly not an expert on metals. That said, I've seen more than a few of those ruddervators that are not repairable due to magnesium oxidation. You are right that is easy to spot. That specific Bonanza looks so damn good from the video I'd be surprised it would have that issue.
@kentcook5093 2 жыл бұрын
The ruddervators on on the V tails are magnesium and as I understand it have to be, and can not be skinned in aluminum. Those on 33D are in near perfect condition.
@wolfgagger 2 жыл бұрын
@@kentcook5093 they absolutely can be reskinned in aluminium, not sure where you heard that, they just need replaced if they are corroded
@fly-n-m9445 Жыл бұрын
@@wolfgagger I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but all V-tails are Magnesium, and as today can only be re-skinned in Magnesium. As per the maintenance manuals, only The model 33s, 36s,Barons and straight tails can be converted to aluminum.
@truthteller8459 2 жыл бұрын
I personally never could be a pilot with my eyesight but if I could my three, by far, favorite airplanes I wish I could own myself are the Beechcraft V-Tail, and the Cessna 150 and 172 models. This Bonanza in this video is painted beautifully!
@GlareAtEm 2 жыл бұрын
Yes you could! Being a pilot requires good eyesight, BUT, the eyesight can be corrected! Talk to your local AME if you feel like chasing your dream.
@josephliptak 2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful Bonanza. Love the paint schemes they used from an era gone by.
@danielneuenschwander7381 2 жыл бұрын
it is great to see that someone took the time and care to cover her with cloths/tarps & "vermin" wheel pants to save headaches later. Can't wait to see you get the airworthiness cert renewed and her back in the air! Great video!
@TastierBackInThe80s 2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful aircraft, and that green livery is perfect. Always loved the V-tails. Thanks for sharing.
@BenWeeksBonanzaPilot 2 жыл бұрын
Good to see others resurrecting these old bonanzas. Can’t wait for the next one!
@mattmeade8856 2 жыл бұрын
Ben when will you be getting more videos out?
@AsylumAir 2 жыл бұрын
We have plans to get out to grab more content. Currently the plane is a 3 hour flight away from base. More to come soon!
@BenWeeksBonanzaPilot 2 жыл бұрын
@@mattmeade8856 have one in the works currently, but I’m slammed with finishing up school currently and not able to work on it. It will be worth the wait👍
@christopherbeddoe406 2 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful plane. Nice to see her getting prepared to fly.
@Ux2_4u 2 жыл бұрын
It looks amazing after sitting for 34 years. The paintjob is just amazing.
@MrDano3535 2 жыл бұрын
That bonanza is exactly like mine!!! I mean right down to the same year model!!! A 1957 H35!! Awesome plane!!! I love my bonanza!!
@AsylumAir 2 жыл бұрын
Very cool!
@thepurpleufo 2 жыл бұрын
I would give this video 100 likes if that were possible. I love those old Bonanzas, and I hope you will put up more videos on what you do with this one. Thank you.
@Peter-ic7vj 3 ай бұрын
Beautiful color!!!!!
@LeifDjurfeldt 2 жыл бұрын
Oh man!!! my dream airplane!
@BF-kn9ih 9 ай бұрын
"That's just about the finest smell in the world..."(George Lebay, 1978)
@flyingfortressrc1794 2 жыл бұрын
That was great to see the old girl fire to life again
@tompurvis1261 Жыл бұрын
Nice work and no drawn out drama. Thanks for the video!
@CherokeeFlyr 2 жыл бұрын
Great video! I just cannot comprehend “pickling” the aircraft for that long. Years of hangar rent or does this person own the hangar? Just the thought of bringing this ship into airworthiness ($$$) gives me the chills.
@coldisle 2 жыл бұрын
Wow…my God what a find. Just absolutely beautiful
@493913507 2 жыл бұрын
Looks like we stepped back in time, I am amazed that it started that easily,all in all they took great care of the plane...
@carrisasteveinnes1596 2 жыл бұрын
No Jimmy Hoffa in there, I noted.
@scottmoseley5122 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome find! Keep us posted!
@Tom__L 2 жыл бұрын
That cockpit is such a beauty… please keep it that way… 😍
@DanRibar Жыл бұрын
Excited for you. V35B is and always has been my favorite GA airplane. Congrats on the start.
@bernardanderson3758 2 жыл бұрын
Great to see this because last week there were two people working on a V-35 that’s been out of annual for 35 years and I’m looking forward to seeing you as well to getting this one in airworthy condition
@rodanderson8490 2 жыл бұрын
Of all the small airplanes I have flown the V-tail Bonanza remains my favorite. The one I flew was owned by the Army flying club at APG, Maryland. I made 4 engine out emergency landings (1 approach & 3 departures) in one weekend without scratching it. The 10 cent spring on the alternate air source inside the cowling was corroded and allowed a flap to gradually inhibit the airflow to the carburetor every time I used full power. Once back on the ground the engine appeared to work fine. An A&P mechanic at the Roanoke, VA airport FINALLY figured it out. It was an exciting adventure🥳
@TheDonkeyBONE 2 жыл бұрын
What a find! I'd love to hear the story that goes with it. Keep the videos coming!
@TT99C5 2 жыл бұрын
I love the attention to detail paid when that airplane was last put away. It paid off. Beautiful bird!
@spencersizemore1212 2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful machine hope she gets back in the air and brings more memories God speed and God bless
@informyourself4074 2 жыл бұрын
Great - please keep posting
@thomasmitchell828 10 ай бұрын
This aircraft, like many others left to gather dust in hangers, barns and on tarmac were meant to be in the air. Kudos to those who make an effort to get them back into the sky.
@nigel900 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful. 👍🏻
@officialbritishtaxpayer5609 2 жыл бұрын
Great! Let's see this beauty get back into the air! Lots of things to check before you can do that but keep us posted!
@chriscusick6890 2 жыл бұрын
I bought my 1947 Bonanza at a small airport by Ankeny, Iowa. Aircraft in the midwest are well preserved. I love color and scheme on this 1957 Bonanza.
@AsylumAir 2 жыл бұрын
I recently flew a 1948 35A to Ankeny recently. Was a beautiful ride.
@paulciprus9582 2 жыл бұрын
My mom.. dad and I went on many vacations in our Bonanzas back in the 70s and eighties...fantastic airplanes...
@jerryjohnson8268 2 жыл бұрын
love the color
@jwoodyr1 2 жыл бұрын
Totally agree!
@Acc0rd79 Жыл бұрын
It looks like it's in perfect condition!! I would love to own that bird. I own a 75 Beech Sierra and it's in amazing shape, also came from the midwest. If I needed a faster plane the Bonanza would be my first pick all day long! The exterior colors are just perfect, the interior could do with some updates but I'd be OK with that at the start! Just a perfectly preserved plane.
@jordanmartell8750 2 жыл бұрын
Love this! That interior is epic! Looking forward to the brake fix piece of work on this bird.
@a.n.7863 2 жыл бұрын
Exterior designer - excellent Interior designer - cringe worthy
@no1herebutuschickens 2 жыл бұрын
Not bad looking. I have an H35. FYI, a cheap solution for the strut seal is to put some AT205 transmission sealer in with the fluid and then pump it. You can get the Granville Seal, but mine have held for 2 years doing this.
@AsylumAir 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tip! Thats great info for a sticky or deflated situation :)
@BillR1951 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing.
@AsylumAir 2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@lorenzodunn3226 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent film footage and sound. Great commentary.
@AsylumAir 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching
@steveanacorteswa3979 6 ай бұрын
Wow, one damn nice piece of Wichita, got to fly my friends V35 when it only had like 30 hours on it, when a GA 3 axis AP was new, after flying 70s 152s. that plexi was so clear, felt like sitting on a cloud.
@markjackson8302 2 жыл бұрын
Nice. Great to see this come to life.
@scpowered 2 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful find!
@tombuck 2 жыл бұрын
What an awesome interior. There’s even a Beechcraft clothes hanger! 😁
@AsylumAir 2 жыл бұрын
I thought the Beech hanger was awesome too. Wonder where that came from :D
@johnpxii 2 жыл бұрын
This is awesome, please post updates! Great work!
@Suncast45 2 жыл бұрын
First thing I thought --How old is the fuel in the tanks? She's a beautiful Bonanza!
@gtr1952 2 жыл бұрын
34 years and it started! Didn't even smoke! That's amazing! 8) --gary
@mrkhokhar4895 2 жыл бұрын
Waoooo what a beautiful lovely plane love the console
@retroj4634 2 жыл бұрын
Great video!
@AsylumAir 2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@samphillips8322 2 жыл бұрын
What a nice find. You already know all the good things about the H model. It will be interesting to know how much work it will take to get her airworthy again. Sad to see one neglected like this but at least it was protected from rodent and weather damage.
@jamesbruce1183 2 жыл бұрын
Brings back memories. I was partners in 559D. We had no landing light on the nosewheel. Just in both wings. Also had panel update above the piano keys. We ended up installing a 4 fuel gauge panel so we didn't have to use a switch to see fuel levels. It looks like that one has been converted to FI. O-470G-CI. There are probably many AD's that need to be complied with.
@jamesbruce1183 2 жыл бұрын
@Galileo7of9 I knew that. But that is an H35 like ours. With almost same N number/serial number. Does it have the 40 gal wing tanks and no Aux? I think you have to change the wing LE to get the 40 gal tanks.
@jamesbruce1183 2 жыл бұрын
@Galileo7of9 From the factory, right. But the video is an H35 like the one I was partners with. I think I saw M tips on it. Our tips were rounded.
@jamesbruce1183 2 жыл бұрын
Def has M tips. But with lights in the leading edge and fuel caps for the Aux's the wing looks stock. Maybe the nose gear landing light was an option or add-on.
@tinlizzie37 2 жыл бұрын
A fine preserved '57 Bonanza S/N 5085. It sounds and looks like it would be worth getting air-worthy again. My Bonanza was a 1948 S/N 1325. I enjoyed it for twenty years, and found the Piper Comanche is quite similar in flight handling! Beech made a fine aircraft, when they made the Bonanza! Bob U.
@clear-the-prop 2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful find she’s near mint. Other than adding a sure fire magneto and a JPI Engine monitor I wouldn’t touch nothing as long as everything works she’s like an old sexy classic car like a big girl fly👍
@crooked-halo 2 жыл бұрын
And assuring the tail AD is done.
@dogfoodking 2 жыл бұрын
Great aircraft... looking forward to seeing her go fast again.
@michaelklepacz 11 ай бұрын
Super clean all things considered!
@airman64 2 жыл бұрын
It's in beautiful shap
@bobmillerick300 2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful aircraft, best of luck with it.
@bnelson313braveheart 2 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful classic Beachcraft!
@edwardstephens247 Жыл бұрын
The Bonanza is my favorite small plane!
@WX4CB 2 жыл бұрын
holy crap... for being in a hanger for that long i'm surprised at how "clean" it is considering.... why can't @jimmys world find these lmao. dunno how bad it smelled in there but couldn't have been that bad with the doors shut. the mold is in there though... but that's an awesome find... now to get the ADs done and a decent overhaul and annual.
@sactu1 2 жыл бұрын
Remarkable condition. What a find!
@bernardanderson3758 2 жыл бұрын
It looks beautiful
@handyman75657 2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely Magnificent.
@christianjforbes 2 жыл бұрын
I finally get to see what’s been hiding in that hanger all these years.
@maryrafuse3851 2 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful airplane. It reminds me of the people I knew while I was growing up. Many vets from the greatest generation flew Spitfires, Mustangs, including the deadly P-51D, and a rare few the Mosquito both fighter & bomber. Even the training aircraft were beautiful machines. The Harvard was an American beauty. Imagine trying to get flying out of your blood? Impossible for some. Imagine finding an airplane you could afford to gas up, an airplane to take your family places.
@brentdykgraaf184 2 жыл бұрын
Leaving now...will see you on Dan and Juan's channel soon.
@MrMaxeemum 2 жыл бұрын
I was for sure "That thing ain't starting at that turnover speed" then it popped a little then a little more but even then I was sure it wasn't going to start as it just didn't turnover faster enough and even struggled to do a full rotation, but then its soul that slumbered for 34 years awoke and it wanted to live, BRUMMMMM I'M ALIVE!!!!!!!!
@EMJ31 2 жыл бұрын
Ohhh, that all looks so familiar! I used to own a share of a ‘54 E-35, and that panel is very similar (except for the green)! The WWII surplus Sperry attitude and directional gyros! The lead owner of our group and I finally paid to have those replaced after the attitude gyro tumbled on him on an IFR flight out of Cleveland. The great mechanic we found so badly wanted us to move up to the IO-470 instead of our E-225-8, but it wasn’t in the cards with one owner losing his job (“Reagan will never dare to fire us air traffic controllers!”) and another refusing to pay his share, so we remaining two guys had to sell. I wonder if the D model in a hanger in my hometown in Iowa is still there rotting away…. Didn’t have those mouse guards on that one so the interior is probably shredded…
@johnrltr 2 жыл бұрын
Very nice old Bo. Looking forward to your next vid. I'm curious: how do you air up the struts? How much pressure is required? And did you spray something like MMO into the spark plugs? Are you expecting to find a good bit of corrosion in the engine after all those years? btw, that jack is just amazing!
@strykert3929 2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful aircraft 👍🏼
@rrrak86 2 жыл бұрын
Why can’t I find a gem like that?
@bthomas8156 2 жыл бұрын
I would be interested to see how the radio works in this beauty
@carrisasteveinnes1596 2 жыл бұрын
As an idiot, I immediately assumed this plane was a Mooney and not a Beechcraft.
@andrewallen9993 2 жыл бұрын
a nice old fork tailed Dr. killer!
@bobninemire5154 2 жыл бұрын
Nice find !!
@bnghjtyu767 2 жыл бұрын
I have a list of like a hundred items that I need to inspect thoroughly or switch out on a unit like this first thing comes to my mind what's the camshaft look like. Nice old bird.
@truckergare Жыл бұрын
Cool channel, but would like to see more of the step by step that goes in to getting a plane back into the air.
@stevenrichards8880 2 жыл бұрын
Cool find 'good luck"
@garycooper4526 2 жыл бұрын
beautiful
@randall1959 2 жыл бұрын
Whoever packed that one away knew what they were doing. It didn't even smoke.
@TechGorilla1987 2 жыл бұрын
@7:31 - You even had wheel chock on your jack in the garage, but none for the first fire? Interesting. Thanks for the video!
@crashalexander7232 2 жыл бұрын
what a lovely doctor killer ....lol cool story and documentation ...
@thammanoonkamfunt5470 2 жыл бұрын
Cool aircraft
@EVAUnit4A 2 жыл бұрын
Wait. So, you're telling me this airplane has been sitting in a hangar for almost as long as I've been alive??? Why not just sell if you're not gonna use it?! The amount of work- and money- to get that plane functional after so many decades is gonna be significant compared to if it had been working all this time. Tires, hoses and cables, seals, belts, _anything_ that is rusted... it may not be a warbird, but it still boggles the mind! The only thing I can say that they did right was the 'mouse guards', and the blankets didn't hurt either.
@chadwickalexanderjr1758 2 жыл бұрын
Back in the day this plane was sometimes called the "V Tailed Doctor Killer".
@petervautmans199 2 жыл бұрын
beautifully kept, one of the most beautifull/best planes in the world (except when U R a doctor)
@flyboycpa 2 жыл бұрын
Remember that it's hangAr, not hangEr. One is to store a plane, the other is to hang your clothes.
@mitchsterling3266 4 ай бұрын
Amazing airplane
@lbowsk 2 жыл бұрын
Very cool.
@rexmyers991 2 жыл бұрын
A true time capsule. If you can get it in the air you should head straight for Oshkosh. I think you’d win a prize.
@mrkhokhar4895 2 жыл бұрын
Engine area very tidy keept well .
@stubi1103 2 жыл бұрын
A beautiful Airplane but who was the previous owner and why was the machine shut down in 1988?
@karlbraun9564 2 жыл бұрын
Ah, a forked tailed doctor killer is reborn.
@JeffHaddox 10 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing this! What tools and chemicals did you use to clean the engine? Looking to do this on my airplane.
@drewmog123456 2 ай бұрын
Did you change the oil?
@B2K1966 2 жыл бұрын
Damn, lucky find.
@ramenhausten Жыл бұрын
Where do you look for this barn finds mate? I could really use the help
@z98133 10 ай бұрын
Nice work to getting it to where you got it. I don't know what you're using for audio but you have to mitigate the wind noise. Try using a cotton ball over the microphone.
@degraham9198 2 жыл бұрын
Shweet!
@TruthHasSpoken 2 жыл бұрын
Curious how old the fuel was ? I assume if 34 years old .. it would have degraded and the plane would not have started ???
@perrooceaniko2005 2 жыл бұрын
Not sure .... no ethanol. No shit. Tons of lead and vivacious additives now prohibited. Who knows ......
@AsylumAir 2 жыл бұрын
Very old ! It was drained and topped off with new
@davidsanders6957 Жыл бұрын
Come on, I've been setting that along. You're gonna tell me it fires right up. And then no smoke, either? Come on, Pull on my other leg this one hertz l o l
@jeremyduncan3654 2 жыл бұрын
What a score this.
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