My Decathlon - N50508

Model: Bellanca 8KCAB (150HP, CS prop, Inverted fuel/oil system)
Year: 1979 (serial # 523-79)
Total time: 3786
Empty weight: 1317.65 lb   (useful load is 482.35 lb)
Engine: Lycoming AEIO-320-E1B
Time SMOH: 694  (overhauled by Ly-con of Visalia CA)
Last annual inspection:     May 2008 (excellent compression on all cylinders, all ADs complied)
Prop: Hartzell HC-C2YL-4F
Time SPOH: 11 (prop overhaul & dynamic balance Dec 2007)
STCs: Airwolf spin on oil filter, B&C Specialty starter
Asking price: $53,000



508 at its parking spot at Palo Alto airport, where it has been since I bought it in May of 1988.


508 parked next to a C185 at Kernville, CA (Actually this was at a get together of C180/C185 owners).


The simple instrument panel is typical of an aerobatic airplane. Not wonderful for marginal weather, but great for acro. Notice the small black tank under the instrument panel. That is a gas tank that fills up via gravity feed from the wings while upright. When you are flying upside down, the fuel in the wings doesn't do you any good since it is lower than the engine. But you can fly upside down continuously for about 5.5 minutes on the fuel in the header tank before running out of gas. -- I know because I tried it once :)

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