Golden State Ercoupe Owners Club,
Region 7
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Ercoupe history & general info
A reminder to please
renew or join the (National) Ercoupe Owner Club for 2007;
Carolyn Carden
Check out the on
line encyclopedia 'Wikipedia' regarding Ercoupes; Want to order a copy of an Ercoupes official records from the FAA (to check for LSA status, etc)? You can order them on CD from the FAA directly; Go to address below: enter N number and serial number. Add to shopping cart, go to check out, Enter shipping info. Next you get a page to enter credit card info. Cost is $10. CD arrives in the mail in about 7-10 days. http://162.58.35.241/e.gov/ND/airrecordsND.asp
List of registered
Ercoupes and status look up by "N" or serial number;
Here's a link to the
Ercoupe add with the child seat (courtesy of Hartmut Beil). Twin Ercoupe “recent” photos, courtesy of Ed Burkhead; http://edburkhead.com/Ercoupe2/Twin-Ercoupe.htm
Tailwheel Ercoupe /
"Decoupe";
http://www.popularaviation.com/Ercoupe/Display.asp?Photo=3846 Syd Cohen wrote; The D-Coupe was built by a friend of mine who is a member of my EAA chapter, Dick Mork, in Eagle River, Wisconsin. He started with an Alon fuselage, installed a 6 cyl. O-300 engine and prop from an old Cessna 172, used Cessna 150 nose struts for the mail landing gear and mounted them to the fronts of the spars, beefed up the tail cone to take the stresses of the tail wheel hitting rough ground, installed a tailwheel, installed sticks to replace the yokes, and did a whole lot of other things to the airplane. He documented everything he did, and got the FSDO to grant him an Experimental Homebuilt certificate for the airplane. He had showed them that he had built more than 50% of the airplane himself. It took him over 12 years of fairly steady work to get the airplane flying. He flew it for a few years, and sold it to the party in Tennessee. Syd
Jason J Ellingson
created a new website devoted to the Ercoupe and later models. Here's some interesting Ercoupe related history; On March 12, 1947, Carolyn West and Beatrice Medes flew an Ercoupe to win the first AWTAR - they were the only finishers! In 1948, Mardo Crane, Chairman, trail blazed the "Jacqueline Cochran Cross County Race" to Miami. The LA Chapter has always had a great interest in racing, with many members generally placing in the top ten. http://www.sws99s.org/history/losangeles.html AWTAR = All Woman Transcontinental Air Race http://members.aol.com/creasonwings/awtar.htm From Glen Davis on the Coupers Fly-in list; I have added some info and pictures to my website of Jessica's progress toward her Sport Pilot's license. If you’re interested, go to www.ercoupepilot.com then click on the Jessica button. Glen Davis CFII Grumman Tiger N70GD 1946 Ercoupe N3103H Here's a home video from the EAA Flabob event, made by a local Bellanca pilot. He must have a sense of humor, recording the landings at Flabob with some nasty cross winds however; he captured a landing by 68H and me, with quite a crab angle! The winds out of the north (a direct cross wind @ Flabob) at 20 gusting to 30 knots. @ 5:40 into the video you can watch N3968H land. The winds required over 30 degrees of crab angle; fortunately 68H did her job and made me look like a better pilot than I am (a nice design feature, I'd say!). The really interesting part is watching & listening to the take off of the Bellanca at the end of the video. http://youtube.com/watch?v=4Ob7toBLP2I Les Slifkin shared this (Thanks Les!). Here's something that may be of value for the Holidays as a great gift idea, or just for fun. Dolly Maufras (Dolly) does customized shirt embroidery, and is very nice and helpful. Dolly charges $25.00 for the digitizing and $12.00 to stitch any shirt. She will send a catalog or web site to choose the shirt. If you ask, you may be able to supply your own shirt. Dolly's web site is @ www.flyingmachineembroidery.com
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