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Unfortunately the time has arrived for me to switch to flying Light Sport aircraft.  I’ll be selling both my flying Cadet, N34782 and my uncompleted project, N29392.  If anyone has an interest in them, please email me for full details.

I have a Beech Roby prop that I believe is for a Mooney Mite.  The blade diameter is 66"  It appears to be in good shape.

Aviation lore has it that the prototype Globe Swift was created by Texan R.S. "Pop" Johnson after he closely examined and measured a Culver Cadet.  Evidently the original Swift prototype was of all wood costruction, with the next prototype having some metal construction in the fuselage.  I recently acquired a Globe Swift brochure bearing a 1944 printing date.  The aircraft it depicts has wood wings with split flaps.  I've scanned lthe brochure and posted it on the website.  Here's a link to the brochure as well as a link to a Swift website page which covers the subject.

http://www.culvercadet.com/GC-1A/Swift%20GC-1A.pdf

http://www.saginawwings.com/xswift.htm

I received the following message from the UK and thought that one of our members may have an answer:

Hi Bill,

I am based in the UK and have recently been looking at importing a Culver Cadet project from the states and restoring it over here.

However I have recently come up against a bit of a showstopper in that the aircraft cannot be given a permit to fly on our Light Aircraft Association (UK equivalent of the EAA) as the type is shown as being a certified type under the FAA and under new European legislation a certified type imported from outside of the EU must also be certified within the EU. Unfortunately as the cadet is not certified in the UK already it would cost a huge amount of money to do so relative to the cost of the airplane.

The oddity here is that the holder of the TCDS for the Cadet is listed by the FAA as Superior Aircraft but as far as I am aware this company went bust many years ago. My question to you is, who now holds the TCDS for the Cadet? If we could prove to our authorities that the type is effectively orphaned we may be able to register it under the LAA.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Mark Huxtable

There is now a restored Culver V listed for sale on the Barnstormers website.

Bill Johnson's Cadet LCA project, N29393, is now on Barnstormers.  This is the Cadet project in the slideshow on the Culver Cadet website.  The workmanship looks great.  It doesn't have an engine, but a new Sensenich prop is included.  That's about a $2K item, if you haven't priced one lately.  Here's a link to the ad:

  https://www.barnstormers.com/classified_737866_Culver+Cadet+LCA+N29393.html

There are some Cadet landing gear springs for sale on eBay.  I'm not certain that they are original factory parts, but they look pretty good.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Culver-LCA-LFA-Landing-Gear-Oleo-Spring-/251186588894?pt=Motors_Aviation_Parts_Gear&hash=item3a7be32cde&vxp=mtr

I've tried enhancing the photo with PhotoShop.  The numbers are just too faint to recover anything useful.  If anyone has a better copy of the image, we could work on that.