Pete,
He is looking at an "amended" W&B on that 12 that some mechanic who flunked math class, must have done those calculations.
2 things you can count on is it didn't actually weight 800lbs on floats, and it didn't come from the factory with flaps.....
Folks often confuse the 14's with 12's and of course the 14's did come from the factory with flaps. The Mardens Airways original mod for flaps on a 12 simply used all factory 14 parts to do the conversion.
Down to the flap handle being on the RIGHT side of the seat!!![emoji2957] Still a few floating around Maine with handle on right
side! I have a Cub that shows an empty weight of 860 lbs when it was built in 1983 by Don Snyder in Pa that holds the STCs for
Lots of PA12 mods........ That weight is of course another fairytale. We are going to do an actual W&B on it this fall (digital scales) when it comes off floats. The number will likely be north of a 1000lbs........... Just the facts of life, when it comes to Cub/Cruiser weights.[emoji2958]
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