Adventurous New Owner Sought Found!

It's been a short four and half years that C-GBZD has served us, but served us well she has! From her maiden flight in April 1999 with the reliable Lycoming IO-540 engine to just yesterday, with the powerful M-14P radial engine, our Moose demonstrator has become a customer and fan favorite.

In fact, so popular has our radial powered Moose become, that when we showed up at Oshkosh this year sporting the new Bombardier V300T engine in a new Moose, customers kept asking "Where's the Moose, the one with the radial?" The diehards refused to acknowledge anything as a Moose except a radial powered SR3500.

But with the close of the airshow season for 2003, thoughts are turning to a new demonstrator for future shows at Murphy Aircraft. So the rare opportunity of buying a ready to fly Moose has opened up for the right buyer. What do you get? Well, for starters you get a Moose that has crisscrossed North America from Alaska to Florida and California to Quebec, Canada. In fact, so accustomed to cross country flight has GBZD become, it hardly needs maps any more (thank-you GPS - but keep those maps handy!!).

As seen below, the interior is finished in a tan leather upholstery with matching carpets. Four bucket seats will comfortably carry you and up to three passengers to your destination. This arrangement opens the flexibility of the aircraft by allowing seating for three and four with various load configurations. For example, you can leave out one seat and take a bike or two or something else long, or move the rear seats forward to enhance the volume of the rear storage area for camping gear.

Two opening windows and four air vents keep the cabin well ventilated while both on the ground and in the air. Teak grips fitted with push-to-talk buttons and electric trim control top of the two control sticks in the front. Grab handles mounted above the front seats allow for easy adjustment of your seat or a second place to hold during turbulent times. Custom made door panels and a headliner in the front and rear finish off the Moose's interior.

Instruments include the basic six flight instruments: Airspeed; Attitude gyro; Altimeter; Turn & Bank; Directional gyro; VSI. Avionics has an Apollo stack including a six place intercom, COM, GPS/COM and a Bendix/King Transponder and encoder. The M-14P engine is managed by a digital RPM, manifold pressure, oil temperature and pressure gauges, Electronics International Volt meter and  Fuel Computer with fuel flow as well as the their Ultimate Scanner for all 9 cylinder head temps. An air pressure indicator for the air start system, air flow gauge and electronic clock round out the instrumentation.

The wings hold 70 USG of fuel and house Whelen anti-collision lights incorporating the NAV light, strobe light and white rear light all in one unit.

The engine is the M-14P, 9 cylinder radial engine that produces 360 horsepower. An air-start system is used to start the engine. The propeller is a 96", two-blade wooden propeller that has a metal leading edge for corrosion protection. A clean kit has been fitted to the engine that almost reduces oil effluent to zero - which keeps the airport managers happy!

"Our" Moose now belongs to a new owner and is enjoying the Texas sunshine.