I became the owner of Norbert (as my partner calls it), a 1956 Champion 7EC, yesterday. It's based at S43, Harvey Field, and features a low-time C90, ridiculously good-condition 15 year old Ceconite painted in black and forest green dope (which I think of as the "Certain Death in a Crash" paint scheme, since it would be completely invisible against the trees), and an immaculate interior with the barest-minimum VFR panel (a very good thing, in my book). I haven't had a chance to take it up since the purchase, but a test flight last month ago proved it flew very nicely.
The name Norbert is from the first Harry Potter movie, for a little dragon that Hagrid hatches from an egg. We hope this plane will not be belching flames, though.
I'll have a chance to take more pictures once the weather dries out and the wind isn't 10 knots across the runway.
The name Norbert is from the first Harry Potter movie, for a little dragon that Hagrid hatches from an egg. We hope this plane will not be belching flames, though.
I'll have a chance to take more pictures once the weather dries out and the wind isn't 10 knots across the runway.
