1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration


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Current Price: 29,500.00 USD

Up for sale is this 1940 example of the Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 "Skinny Bird" with a fresh annual, completed February 2015. This aircraft was purchased from a vintage flying aircraft collection and is now nestled in next to warbirds at the Vintage Flying Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. She underwent a muti-year restoration in 1993 inclusive of period accurate cotton doping stretched over her airframe. The plane is in the correct livery and paint format down to the oversize "N" number placement. The plane was then stored inside a hangar for the next 16 years. She was gone through completely in 2010/2011 and repainted. A new prop was installed in April 2012.

Avionics

New radio pack and intercom system

Engine

The beautiful Continental A65 power plant features Rolls Royce cylinder covers (you've got to have a bit of sense of humor about old planes).

Prop

New prop installed April 2012

Interior

Interior beautifully redone with great sensitivity to time period aesthetics

Overall Condition

Meticulous log books and technical archives. No known damage history.

Fresh annual completed February 2015. Two hours of flight time logged since with zero issues. Always hangared, flown regularly. An absolute head turner wherever you go. She is a museum grade restoration... no disappointments right down to the wheel pants.


1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration 1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration 1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration
1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration 1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration 1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration
1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration 1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration 1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration
1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration 1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration 1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration
1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration 1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration 1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration
1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration 1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration 1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration
1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration 1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration 1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration
1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration 1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration 1940 Porterfield Collegiate CP-65 Skinny Bird museum quality, flying restoration


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