Moving a Champ'

Henning said:
If you have a van, you can haul the wing inside cradled diagonally out the back doors. If you have a receiver hitch set up you can pull the ball and bolt down a U channel for the tailwheel. If you make the channel long enough, you can probably leave the H-stab on, but make sure to see how tight you can turn.
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It's coming in for a full rebuild so the tail's coming off anyway.
 
Tom-D said:
I've never tried that. they are too short for the fuselage to set the main gear on.
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Too short? In what way? A guy on an Aeronca site said he towed one 100 miles on a rental car dolly. Perhaps we're envisioning different things, this is what I believe he was referring to.
 
Remember to put Timkin wheel bearing in it so it can be moved on a road. They're sooo much different than, and far superior to, the PMA bearings.

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Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe said:
4x8 Harbor Freight trailer - didn't move the fuselage. But if I had, I would have bolted a hitch to the tail spring. I would think that you would need to have a lot of toe out to scrub the tires in 7 miles...
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I had that same trailer for almost 25 years. Quite handy, folds up to save space. In order to save even more space I gave it away recently to my daughter and son-in-law.
 
roncachamp said:
Too short? In what way? A guy on an Aeronca site said he towed one 100 miles on a rental car dolly. Perhaps we're envisioning different things, this is what I believe he was referring to.
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I'm having a hard time imagining how you're going to tow an aircraft fuselage with that. :dunno:
 
I bet a tow company would do it with a flat bed pretty cheap if you let them pick a slow time.
 
I think that would be hard on the little tailwheel for any significant distance. Maybe not but I would never have considered doing it that way. Henning's idea of strapping the nose down to keep the tailwheel off seems like a possible stroke of genius. Tying the tailwheel onto the dolly? Why use a dolly? Just hook it to the hitch on the back of your truck and tow backwards on the mains - that's how I did it.
 
Silvaire said:
I think that would be hard on the little tailwheel for any significant distance. Maybe not but I would never have considered doing it that way. Henning's idea of strapping the nose down to keep the tailwheel off seems like a possible stroke of genius. Tying the tailwheel onto the dolly? Why use a dolly? Just hook it to the hitch on the back of your truck and tow backwards on the mains - that's how I did it.
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Yeah, even when I fast taxi I pick the tail up.
 
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