EAA 84 - Member Projects

The aircraft is a Stoddard-Hamilton Glastar. The project was started in 1998, and first flight took place in March of 2004. Total logged build time to date is 3, 800 hours. (It’s not completed yet – but are they ever??) The engine is a 160hp Lycoming O-320 with a Sensenich (74DM7S16-O-65) fixed pitch metal prop. It is equipped for day/night IFR. The plane is hangared at Paine Field, in Everett Washington . Apollo (now Garmin) radio stack includes an IFR GPS GX60 GPS/COM, an SL30 NAV/COM, MX20 Moving Map display, SL70 X-ponder, SL15M audio panel, S-TEC system 30 autopilot with GPSS steering interface, LED lighting, VM1000 engine monitor with fuel totalizer and EC-100 enunciator system. Aux fuel tanks bring the total useful fuel to 48 gallons. Ramp weight is 1,280 pounds. MTOW is 1,980 lbs. Typical cruise at 3,000 ft is 115 Knots IAS, 2400 RMP @ 7.1 gallon/hr. (at 2700 RPM will see 132 Knots at 9.8 gallons/hr) Note: still have not installed nose fairing and gear leg fairings – As Rand points out at every fly-in. The aircraft has about 400 hours on the hobbs . Flights around the Pacific Northwest, Canada and to Oshkosh have been made.

Well It finally fly's! After working on building my airplane for more then 20 years I finally got to fly it for the first time today 5/24/09. I flew for 1.2 hours around Paine Field Washington to start to brake in the engine.
It flew great! It will be awhile till I get it painted, I will have to find a job and save some money to pay for the paint job. In the mean time I plan to fly it.