Hi Folks For the record, as of 9/18/99 when I declined the privilege of being the Franklin STC guinea pig there was no STC available for the ercoupe. They had one guy before me who was going to try but then disappeared. After I found out the cost and the fact they were going to charge me full retail for the engine and all the incurred expenses of changing it over and not even offer to help with the fuel, logging, paperwork or re-certification I also backed out. Your going to have $13.000 worth invested and an engine in a crate for starters. Now go get the prop, Design your own wiring and baffling, do the actual engine change. Re-certify your plane experimental before you leave the ground, mandatory 100 hour ($600.00) inspections are required for the STC process. Fly and log every second of the next 1000 hours and then apply for the stc yourself. if you can seriously do this for under $20.000 I'd be greatly surprised! And if you DO get the STC how many of the rest of us will use that STC? Enough to even break even? If THE FACTORY thought so they'd have purchased the plane and done it themselves. That's how they did EVERY OTHER ONE they hold. But they wont buy and build a coupe.... Hmmmmm But for the record the company president says there is no STC and no Franklin in a coupe currently that he knows of.
Claude
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