THE POSTING ON THE ASSOCIATION WEBSITE read "Looking for a qualified pilot to fly my Cessna 140 from Nashville, TN to Sandia Airpark, NM. It is Day VFR only and is radio challenged. Reason for the ferry is Medical on my part." A quick call with the owner revealed the airplane, built in 1946, has been in the same family since 1964. My two biggest concerns were the reliability of an airplane that had not flown in five years because of the owner's knee surgery (although it was in annual), and Hurricane Rosa pushing northeast through New Mexico after its landfall in the Baja Peninsula in October 2018. It would be my first job ferrying an aircraft since I earned my commercial certificate earlier in the year.
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