1954 Mooney M-18C N4142

I purchased this Mooney Mite in the summer of 1972. At the time I was a graduate student at the University of Californian at Davis. I had a very good fellowship and was able to save enough to buy a small aircraft. I didn't know exactly what I wanted, but one day I saw this add in the San Francisco Chronicle. Having never seen a Mooney Mite I drove from Livermore to Santa Rosa to see John Gripe's Mooney. I ended up buying the first Mooney Mite I saw.

There is an articles about my Mite on the Mooney Mite web site, http://www.mooneymite.com. One was when my Mite was "Mite of the Month".
Here are some details on the restoration of my Mite.

The N-number on my Mite is a "re-cycled" number. It was originally used on a 1928 Fairchild KR-31 serial number 132.

• Mooney Mite for sale, San Francisco Chronicle June 1972
• New Mite owner ready to depart Santa Rosa, CA for first flight to Livermore, CA June 19,1972
• Fly by at the old air strip on Old Starr Road (now Old Spanish Trail, Marianna,FL). 1972
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The small hangar at Tracy, Sept 1972
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Tracy, 1973
• In flight photos and Magazine article by Monty Groves
• First inspection, Marianna 1973
• S and S hangar, Marianna 1973
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1973
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1973
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Landing Tracy 1973
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Tracy 1973
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Tracy 1973
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1974
• At Oshkosh 1974
• On the way back from Oshkosh and Florida in 1974, I stopped at Ron Cain's airport at Flower Mound TX.
• Fly by at Placerville 1975
• Photo in FLIGTH International 28 May 1975
• Fly by at Tracy 1976
• Fly by at Tracy 1976
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Tracy 1976
• Pilot's view
• My son Erik Shumaker with the Mite 1977
• Model 1990


• 1994
• 1994
• 1994
• 1994
• Award Merced 1994
• 1994
• Suann and I, 1994
• At the Nut Tree, 1994
• 1995
• In the big hangar with the Maule.
• Columbia Flyin, 1996
• In Flight Photos, April, 1996, by Brain Smith
• Award Merced 1997
• In the hangar with the Maule. PA-12 under construction 1999
• 30 Years! 2002
• Model 2002
• Lindberg Model
• April 2003
• Tracy, Sept 2, 2003
• Tracy, Sept 2, 2003
• 100 years of flight, Dec 17, 2003
• Photo in Air & Space May 2006
• Reconditioned prop installed Aug, 2006
• Reconditioned prop installed Aug, 2006
• Annual Gear Retract inspection, Aug, 2006