That's a beautiful aircraft. Given how long it has been sitting, I expected a mess. But instead it looks like a well maintained classic car. The interior looks fantastic. Some of those V-tails included control surfaces that were made with magnesium instead of aluminum and they are notorious for oxidization.
Magnesium-alloy oxidation is usually very easy to spot. Aluminium oxidation, however, is a killer and is notoriously difficult to see. Instead of forming an even coating of aluminium-oxide, the 'rust' goes into the metal and snakes around creating oxide tunnels and making the material friable. Once aluminium has that 'cancer' it cannot be repaired. This is the reason most aluminium objects are coated with plastic - it oxidises far too easily. Aluminium used for food and drinks cans is coated in plastic to stop aluminium leeching into the food product; aluminium is very bad for the brain, causing Alzheimer's like damage! This does not mean I am telling you to get rid of any aluminium pots and pans you have around the house, but maybe replace them over time. As for aircraft, after checking any aluminium is solid it is wise to coat it everywhere - simple lacquer spray out of sight and primed and painted outside; check the coating for damage regularly and touch up and flaking immediately.
@@bertram-raven I am certainly not an expert on metals. That said, I've seen more than a few of those ruddervators that are not repairable due to magnesium oxidation. You are right that is easy to spot. That specific Bonanza looks so damn good from the video I'd be surprised it would have that issue.
The ruddervators on on the V tails are magnesium and as I understand it have to be, and can not be skinned in aluminum. Those on 33D are in near perfect condition.
@@wolfgagger I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but all V-tails are Magnesium, and as today can only be re-skinned in Magnesium. As per the maintenance manuals, only The model 33s, 36s,Barons and straight tails can be converted to aluminum.
I personally never could be a pilot with my eyesight but if I could my three, by far, favorite airplanes I wish I could own myself are the Beechcraft V-Tail, and the Cessna 150 and 172 models. This Bonanza in this video is painted beautifully!
Wow, one damn nice piece of Wichita, got to fly my friends V35 when it only had like 30 hours on it, when a GA 3 axis AP was new, after flying 70s 152s. that plexi was so clear, felt like sitting on a cloud.
it is great to see that someone took the time and care to cover her with cloths/tarps & "vermin" wheel pants to save headaches later. Can't wait to see you get the airworthiness cert renewed and her back in the air! Great video!
@@mattmeade8856 have one in the works currently, but I’m slammed with finishing up school currently and not able to work on it. It will be worth the wait👍
Great to see this because last week there were two people working on a V-35 that’s been out of annual for 35 years and I’m looking forward to seeing you as well to getting this one in airworthy condition
I would give this video 100 likes if that were possible. I love those old Bonanzas, and I hope you will put up more videos on what you do with this one. Thank you.
Of all the small airplanes I have flown the V-tail Bonanza remains my favorite. The one I flew was owned by the Army flying club at APG, Maryland. I made 4 engine out emergency landings (1 approach & 3 departures) in one weekend without scratching it. The 10 cent spring on the alternate air source inside the cowling was corroded and allowed a flap to gradually inhibit the airflow to the carburetor every time I used full power. Once back on the ground the engine appeared to work fine. An A&P mechanic at the Roanoke, VA airport FINALLY figured it out. It was an exciting adventure🥳
Great video! I just cannot comprehend “pickling” the aircraft for that long. Years of hangar rent or does this person own the hangar? Just the thought of bringing this ship into airworthiness ($$$) gives me the chills.
This aircraft, like many others left to gather dust in hangers, barns and on tarmac were meant to be in the air. Kudos to those who make an effort to get them back into the sky.
It looks like it's in perfect condition!! I would love to own that bird. I own a 75 Beech Sierra and it's in amazing shape, also came from the midwest. If I needed a faster plane the Bonanza would be my first pick all day long! The exterior colors are just perfect, the interior could do with some updates but I'd be OK with that at the start! Just a perfectly preserved plane.
What a nice find. You already know all the good things about the H model. It will be interesting to know how much work it will take to get her airworthy again. Sad to see one neglected like this but at least it was protected from rodent and weather damage.
A fine preserved '57 Bonanza S/N 5085. It sounds and looks like it would be worth getting air-worthy again. My Bonanza was a 1948 S/N 1325. I enjoyed it for twenty years, and found the Piper Comanche is quite similar in flight handling! Beech made a fine aircraft, when they made the Bonanza! Bob U.
Ohhh, that all looks so familiar! I used to own a share of a ‘54 E-35, and that panel is very similar (except for the green)! The WWII surplus Sperry attitude and directional gyros! The lead owner of our group and I finally paid to have those replaced after the attitude gyro tumbled on him on an IFR flight out of Cleveland. The great mechanic we found so badly wanted us to move up to the IO-470 instead of our E-225-8, but it wasn’t in the cards with one owner losing his job (“Reagan will never dare to fire us air traffic controllers!”) and another refusing to pay his share, so we remaining two guys had to sell. I wonder if the D model in a hanger in my hometown in Iowa is still there rotting away…. Didn’t have those mouse guards on that one so the interior is probably shredded…
Beautiful find she’s near mint. Other than adding a sure fire magneto and a JPI Engine monitor I wouldn’t touch nothing as long as everything works she’s like an old sexy classic car like a big girl fly👍
What a beautiful airplane. It reminds me of the people I knew while I was growing up. Many vets from the greatest generation flew Spitfires, Mustangs, including the deadly P-51D, and a rare few the Mosquito both fighter & bomber. Even the training aircraft were beautiful machines. The Harvard was an American beauty. Imagine trying to get flying out of your blood? Impossible for some. Imagine finding an airplane you could afford to gas up, an airplane to take your family places.
Not bad looking. I have an H35. FYI, a cheap solution for the strut seal is to put some AT205 transmission sealer in with the fluid and then pump it. You can get the Granville Seal, but mine have held for 2 years doing this.
I have a list of like a hundred items that I need to inspect thoroughly or switch out on a unit like this first thing comes to my mind what's the camshaft look like. Nice old bird.
Brings back memories. I was partners in 559D. We had no landing light on the nosewheel. Just in both wings. Also had panel update above the piano keys. We ended up installing a 4 fuel gauge panel so we didn't have to use a switch to see fuel levels. It looks like that one has been converted to FI. O-470G-CI. There are probably many AD's that need to be complied with.
@Galileo7of9 I knew that. But that is an H35 like ours. With almost same N number/serial number. Does it have the 40 gal wing tanks and no Aux? I think you have to change the wing LE to get the 40 gal tanks.
Def has M tips. But with lights in the leading edge and fuel caps for the Aux's the wing looks stock. Maybe the nose gear landing light was an option or add-on.
holy crap... for being in a hanger for that long i'm surprised at how "clean" it is considering.... why can't @jimmys world find these lmao. dunno how bad it smelled in there but couldn't have been that bad with the doors shut. the mold is in there though... but that's an awesome find... now to get the ADs done and a decent overhaul and annual.
Very nice old Bo. Looking forward to your next vid. I'm curious: how do you air up the struts? How much pressure is required? And did you spray something like MMO into the spark plugs? Are you expecting to find a good bit of corrosion in the engine after all those years? btw, that jack is just amazing!
I was for sure "That thing ain't starting at that turnover speed" then it popped a little then a little more but even then I was sure it wasn't going to start as it just didn't turnover faster enough and even struggled to do a full rotation, but then its soul that slumbered for 34 years awoke and it wanted to live, BRUMMMMM I'M ALIVE!!!!!!!!
Wait. So, you're telling me this airplane has been sitting in a hangar for almost as long as I've been alive??? Why not just sell if you're not gonna use it?! The amount of work- and money- to get that plane functional after so many decades is gonna be significant compared to if it had been working all this time. Tires, hoses and cables, seals, belts, _anything_ that is rusted... it may not be a warbird, but it still boggles the mind! The only thing I can say that they did right was the 'mouse guards', and the blankets didn't hurt either.
Come on, I've been setting that along. You're gonna tell me it fires right up. And then no smoke, either? Come on, Pull on my other leg this one hertz l o l
I've never seen the "mouse guards" before--they certainly changed the fate of that Bonanza!
Me neither but they're brilliant! It seems they worked perfectly.
Farmers been using the sheet metal rodent guards for years around combines
an old trick!
That's a beautiful aircraft. Given how long it has been sitting, I expected a mess. But instead it looks like a well maintained classic car. The interior looks fantastic.
Some of those V-tails included control surfaces that were made with magnesium instead of aluminum and they are notorious for oxidization.
Magnesium-alloy oxidation is usually very easy to spot. Aluminium oxidation, however, is a killer and is notoriously difficult to see. Instead of forming an even coating of aluminium-oxide, the 'rust' goes into the metal and snakes around creating oxide tunnels and making the material friable. Once aluminium has that 'cancer' it cannot be repaired. This is the reason most aluminium objects are coated with plastic - it oxidises far too easily. Aluminium used for food and drinks cans is coated in plastic to stop aluminium leeching into the food product; aluminium is very bad for the brain, causing Alzheimer's like damage! This does not mean I am telling you to get rid of any aluminium pots and pans you have around the house, but maybe replace them over time. As for aircraft, after checking any aluminium is solid it is wise to coat it everywhere - simple lacquer spray out of sight and primed and painted outside; check the coating for damage regularly and touch up and flaking immediately.
@@bertram-raven I am certainly not an expert on metals. That said, I've seen more than a few of those ruddervators that are not repairable due to magnesium oxidation.
You are right that is easy to spot. That specific Bonanza looks so damn good from the video I'd be surprised it would have that issue.
The ruddervators on on the V tails are magnesium and as I understand it have to be, and can not be skinned in aluminum. Those on 33D are in near perfect condition.
@@kentcook5093 they absolutely can be reskinned in aluminium, not sure where you heard that, they just need replaced if they are corroded
@@wolfgagger
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but all V-tails are Magnesium, and as today can only be re-skinned in Magnesium. As per the maintenance manuals, only The model 33s, 36s,Barons and straight tails can be converted to aluminum.
Beautiful Bonanza. Love the paint schemes they used from an era gone by.
I personally never could be a pilot with my eyesight but if I could my three, by far, favorite airplanes I wish I could own myself are the Beechcraft V-Tail, and the Cessna 150 and 172 models. This Bonanza in this video is painted beautifully!
Yes you could! Being a pilot requires good eyesight, BUT, the eyesight can be corrected! Talk to your local AME if you feel like chasing your dream.
Wow, one damn nice piece of Wichita, got to fly my friends V35 when it only had like 30 hours on it, when a GA 3 axis AP was new, after flying 70s 152s. that plexi was so clear, felt like sitting on a cloud.
Beautiful color!!!!!
Beautiful aircraft, and that green livery is perfect. Always loved the V-tails. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome find! Keep us posted!
Wow…my God what a find. Just absolutely beautiful
Nice work and no drawn out drama. Thanks for the video!
it is great to see that someone took the time and care to cover her with cloths/tarps & "vermin" wheel pants to save headaches later. Can't wait to see you get the airworthiness cert renewed and her back in the air! Great video!
What a beautiful plane.
Nice to see her getting prepared to fly.
That bonanza is exactly like mine!!! I mean right down to the same year model!!! A 1957 H35!! Awesome plane!!! I love my bonanza!!
Very cool!
Love this! That interior is epic! Looking forward to the brake fix piece of work on this bird.
Exterior designer - excellent
Interior designer - cringe worthy
I love the attention to detail paid when that airplane was last put away. It paid off. Beautiful bird!
Nice. Great to see this come to life.
Good to see others resurrecting these old bonanzas. Can’t wait for the next one!
Ben when will you be getting more videos out?
We have plans to get out to grab more content. Currently the plane is a 3 hour flight away from base. More to come soon!
@@mattmeade8856 have one in the works currently, but I’m slammed with finishing up school currently and not able to work on it. It will be worth the wait👍
Beautiful. 👍🏻
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
It looks amazing after sitting for 34 years. The paintjob is just amazing.
Excited for you. V35B is and always has been my favorite GA airplane. Congrats on the start.
That was great to see the old girl fire to life again
What a beautiful find!
Beautiful machine hope she gets back in the air and brings more memories God speed and God bless
That cockpit is such a beauty… please keep it that way… 😍
What a find! I'd love to hear the story that goes with it. Keep the videos coming!
This is awesome, please post updates! Great work!
Great to see this because last week there were two people working on a V-35 that’s been out of annual for 35 years and I’m looking forward to seeing you as well to getting this one in airworthy condition
Great aircraft... looking forward to seeing her go fast again.
Oh man!!! my dream airplane!
"That's just about the finest smell in the world..."(George Lebay, 1978)
Great - please keep posting
I would give this video 100 likes if that were possible. I love those old Bonanzas, and I hope you will put up more videos on what you do with this one. Thank you.
What a beautiful classic Beachcraft!
Looks like we stepped back in time, I am amazed that it started that easily,all in all they took great care of the plane...
No Jimmy Hoffa in there, I noted.
My mom.. dad and I went on many vacations in our Bonanzas back in the 70s and eighties...fantastic airplanes...
Of all the small airplanes I have flown the V-tail Bonanza remains my favorite. The one I flew was owned by the Army flying club at APG, Maryland. I made 4 engine out emergency landings (1 approach & 3 departures) in one weekend without scratching it. The 10 cent spring on the alternate air source inside the cowling was corroded and allowed a flap to gradually inhibit the airflow to the carburetor every time I used full power. Once back on the ground the engine appeared to work fine. An A&P mechanic at the Roanoke, VA airport FINALLY figured it out. It was an exciting adventure🥳
Remarkable condition. What a find!
Excellent film footage and sound. Great commentary.
Thanks for watching
Nice find !!
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video! I just cannot comprehend “pickling” the aircraft for that long. Years of hangar rent or does this person own the hangar? Just the thought of bringing this ship into airworthiness ($$$) gives me the chills.
Beautiful aircraft, best of luck with it.
love the color
Totally agree!
This aircraft, like many others left to gather dust in hangers, barns and on tarmac were meant to be in the air. Kudos to those who make an effort to get them back into the sky.
Waoooo what a beautiful lovely plane love the console
Absolutely Magnificent.
It looks beautiful
It looks like it's in perfect condition!! I would love to own that bird. I own a 75 Beech Sierra and it's in amazing shape, also came from the midwest. If I needed a faster plane the Bonanza would be my first pick all day long! The exterior colors are just perfect, the interior could do with some updates but I'd be OK with that at the start! Just a perfectly preserved plane.
Beautiful aircraft 👍🏼
Super clean all things considered!
What a nice find. You already know all the good things about the H model. It will be interesting to know how much work it will take to get her airworthy again. Sad to see one neglected like this but at least it was protected from rodent and weather damage.
I bought my 1947 Bonanza at a small airport by Ankeny, Iowa. Aircraft in the midwest are well preserved. I love color and scheme on this 1957 Bonanza.
I recently flew a 1948 35A to Ankeny recently. Was a beautiful ride.
34 years and it started! Didn't even smoke! That's amazing! 8) --gary
What an awesome interior. There’s even a Beechcraft clothes hanger! 😁
I thought the Beech hanger was awesome too. Wonder where that came from :D
It's in beautiful shap
Cool find 'good luck"
beautiful
The Bonanza is my favorite small plane!
A fine preserved '57 Bonanza S/N 5085. It sounds and looks like it would be worth getting air-worthy again. My Bonanza was a 1948 S/N 1325. I enjoyed it for twenty years, and found the Piper Comanche is quite similar in flight handling! Beech made a fine aircraft, when they made the Bonanza! Bob U.
Great! Let's see this beauty get back into the air! Lots of things to check before you can do that but keep us posted!
a nice old fork tailed Dr. killer!
Ohhh, that all looks so familiar! I used to own a share of a ‘54 E-35, and that panel is very similar (except for the green)! The WWII surplus Sperry attitude and directional gyros! The lead owner of our group and I finally paid to have those replaced after the attitude gyro tumbled on him on an IFR flight out of Cleveland. The great mechanic we found so badly wanted us to move up to the IO-470 instead of our E-225-8, but it wasn’t in the cards with one owner losing his job (“Reagan will never dare to fire us air traffic controllers!”) and another refusing to pay his share, so we remaining two guys had to sell. I wonder if the D model in a hanger in my hometown in Iowa is still there rotting away…. Didn’t have those mouse guards on that one so the interior is probably shredded…
I finally get to see what’s been hiding in that hanger all these years.
First thing I thought --How old is the fuel in the tanks? She's a beautiful Bonanza!
Beautiful find she’s near mint. Other than adding a sure fire magneto and a JPI Engine monitor I wouldn’t touch nothing as long as everything works she’s like an old sexy classic car like a big girl fly👍
And assuring the tail AD is done.
What a beautiful airplane. It reminds me of the people I knew while I was growing up. Many vets from the greatest generation flew Spitfires, Mustangs, including the deadly P-51D, and a rare few the Mosquito both fighter & bomber. Even the training aircraft were beautiful machines. The Harvard was an American beauty. Imagine trying to get flying out of your blood? Impossible for some. Imagine finding an airplane you could afford to gas up, an airplane to take your family places.
Not bad looking. I have an H35.
FYI, a cheap solution for the strut seal is to put some AT205 transmission sealer in with the fluid and then pump it.
You can get the Granville Seal, but mine have held for 2 years doing this.
Thanks for the tip! Thats great info for a sticky or deflated situation :)
I have a list of like a hundred items that I need to inspect thoroughly or switch out on a unit like this first thing comes to my mind what's the camshaft look like. Nice old bird.
Very cool.
Brings back memories. I was partners in 559D. We had no landing light on the nosewheel. Just in both wings. Also had panel update above the piano keys. We ended up installing a 4 fuel gauge panel so we didn't have to use a switch to see fuel levels. It looks like that one has been converted to FI. O-470G-CI. There are probably many AD's that need to be complied with.
@Galileo7of9 I knew that. But that is an H35 like ours. With almost same N number/serial number. Does it have the 40 gal wing tanks and no Aux? I think you have to change the wing LE to get the 40 gal tanks.
@Galileo7of9 From the factory, right. But the video is an H35 like the one I was partners with. I think I saw M tips on it. Our tips were rounded.
Def has M tips. But with lights in the leading edge and fuel caps for the Aux's the wing looks stock. Maybe the nose gear landing light was an option or add-on.
what a lovely doctor killer ....lol cool story and documentation ...
holy crap... for being in a hanger for that long i'm surprised at how "clean" it is considering.... why can't @jimmys world find these lmao. dunno how bad it smelled in there but couldn't have been that bad with the doors shut. the mold is in there though... but that's an awesome find... now to get the ADs done and a decent overhaul and annual.
What a score this.
@7:31 - You even had wheel chock on your jack in the garage, but none for the first fire? Interesting. Thanks for the video!
Damn, lucky find.
Leaving now...will see you on Dan and Juan's channel soon.
Very nice old Bo. Looking forward to your next vid. I'm curious: how do you air up the struts? How much pressure is required? And did you spray something like MMO into the spark plugs? Are you expecting to find a good bit of corrosion in the engine after all those years? btw, that jack is just amazing!
I was for sure "That thing ain't starting at that turnover speed" then it popped a little then a little more but even then I was sure it wasn't going to start as it just didn't turnover faster enough and even struggled to do a full rotation, but then its soul that slumbered for 34 years awoke and it wanted to live, BRUMMMMM I'M ALIVE!!!!!!!!
Cool channel, but would like to see more of the step by step that goes in to getting a plane back into the air.
beautifully kept, one of the most beautifull/best planes in the world (except when U R a doctor)
I would be interested to see how the radio works in this beauty
Cool aircraft
Whoever packed that one away knew what they were doing. It didn't even smoke.
Why can’t I find a gem like that?
Sweet!
Amazing airplane
I was thinking of all the tsb/aard’s that need to be done
Back in the day this plane was sometimes called the "V Tailed Doctor Killer".
Shweet!
Wait. So, you're telling me this airplane has been sitting in a hangar for almost as long as I've been alive??? Why not just sell if you're not gonna use it?! The amount of work- and money- to get that plane functional after so many decades is gonna be significant compared to if it had been working all this time. Tires, hoses and cables, seals, belts, _anything_ that is rusted... it may not be a warbird, but it still boggles the mind!
The only thing I can say that they did right was the 'mouse guards', and the blankets didn't hurt either.
As an idiot, I immediately assumed this plane was a Mooney and not a Beechcraft.
Engine area very tidy keept well .
I believe that’s the first T barn I ever saw
A true time capsule. If you can get it in the air you should head straight for Oshkosh. I think you’d win a prize.
Come on, I've been setting that along. You're gonna tell me it fires right up. And then no smoke, either? Come on, Pull on my other leg this one hertz l o l
Ah, a forked tailed doctor killer is reborn.
Least he covered well protected too great care.
Remember that it's hangAr, not hangEr. One is to store a plane, the other is to hang your clothes.
Thanks for sharing this! What tools and chemicals did you use to clean the engine? Looking to do this on my airplane.
Congrats ! Great find ! Keep us posted on progress , Where is this ?
Jefferson Iowa!
0:02 two seconds in is the answer