Need Info from Mooney Experts

[Vector4fun]

Okay. Everybody will say Huh? Take a look at the Meyers 200. I have a weakness for the unusual.

Me too.
There's one listed on ASO with an IO-550 in it... Whaddya figure, 210 kts?

Sweet airplane, but if ya ever bend it, ya gotta make your own parts.

I've never flown the newer Mooneys, so I don't know, but the older Execs and Rangers don't fly as nice as an F-33 Bonanza. Though for efficiency, it's sure hard to beat an old M20C with manual gear and O-360.

For that kind of money, and just for personal travel, I like the F-33 and the AC114. Both are very comfortable, but neither would be as fast as a 252 either.

If Hi altitude performance and icing protection were important, then consider a Seneca II with boots. Yeah, it's a twin Cherokee, but I'd feel a lot better in it than a Mooney with TKS if I was in icing. And it'll haul four plus a couple Staff bags...

 

[Flyin Tony]

If you want to go fast, burn alot of gas, and carry a ton of mass. Look at a comanche 400. Nothing like 190kts at 8,000.

 

[BD King]

If you want to go fast, burn alot of gas, and carry a ton of mass. Look at a comanche 400. Nothing like 190kts at 8,000.

Yeah, but keep it off the nose gear on landing.

 

[350DRIVER]

Just my opinion but if I had a $190k to spend it surely wouldn't be on a Mooney. May be a "nice plane" but you could get one heck of a used A-36 with the 300 hp IO-550 in it. Even a used F model, do some research on them. Most of the "Bananas" hold value quite well.

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