May 2008 MC Planemart
Our mission
To keep you flying
Since 1949,
Mid-Continent Aircraft has been the leader in Agricultural Aviation by
providing a variety of services that exceed our customers’ expectations. As we
move into each day, we will continue to grow with your business and provide the
tools you need to be a success.
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website for more pictures and specs.
AG-Aviation's most
complete inventory of new and used aircraft, ground support systems with parts
and maintenance service - backed by 60 years
of experience and integrity.
Ag Cat
1976 450B Ag Cat
– 30 hrs SMOH, super clean, air condition,
Satloc, stainless belly, Yellow and Blue, 80 fuel.
1977 600BAG
1977 Maxi Cat – 816 SMOH, 10,500 Total, smoker, sprayer, tall
tail.
2 King Cats – 600 gallon hopper, 114 fuel, super clean, overseas
location. Call for information and special price.
1976
Ag Cat PT6-20, good wheel times, air, 330 hopper, 38” transland gate,
stainless dropped booms, elevator servo, 5x5 tail wheel, Satloc lite star,
smoker, crop hawk, weathaero, frakes aileron
servo.
1969 Ag Cat with B
– 450HP, 80
fuel, frakes aileron servo, extended wings weathaero, smoker, Satloc GPs, super
boom sprayer.
1982 Ag Cat PT6-20 -400 SMOH, 5900 TT, +4 propellor, air, 80 fuel, 400 gallon,
annual Nov., located NW.
1971 Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer
G-164A- 220 gal
fuel, two banner tow hooks, smoke system, extension on wings.
1976 Grumman G164B AG
Cat – 450HP, 50 SMOH, 80 fuel, transland
gate, sprayer, CP Nozzles, weathaero fan.
Weatherly
None
available at this time
Dromader
1999 M18B - Total time 1430, 310 SMOH, VGs, Servos, Air condition, auto flagger, 60CP sprayer,
Satloc, NDH.
Air Tractor
NDT WING INSPECTION AVAILABLE
THRUSH -AIR TRACTOR.
Insurance
Phone:
E-Mail: acinsurance@midcont.com
Laura Terrett - Producer
Kristin Pullam - Producer
Josh Rittenberry - Producer
Heather Riggs – Claims/Producer
Jennifer Bullington – CSR
Thrush
2008
2008 New dual cockpit, 550-60 and New 510-34Special
price savings. Equipped as sprayers.
1997
Thrush PT6-45- 250 SHSI, M3, Air, dropped
stainless spray, 66 CP’s, Strobes.
1974 S2R 600 - 6400
Total, 1050 SMOH, wing ad cw, sprayer, auto flagger, 850 X 10, weathaero, 5 x 5
tail spring, NDH, very clean, AD’s
CW, new annual.
2005 PT5-34 Thrush
– 1730 Total, 1650 Eng, NDH, Sprayer, M3,
air, spreader, nite work lights.
1976 Thrush S2R-60 – 230 SMOH
Cessna Ag Aviation
1974 Ag Truck- 7532TT, 1384 SMOH, smoker, crop
hawk, hydraulic, dropped SS boom, needs annual. $39,000.00.
1979 Ag Truck - 9000TT, 200 SMOH.
1973 Cessna Ag Truck – 6200, “0” SMOH recent annual, needs paint, wind driven sprayer, smoker.
PIPER
HUTCH
PAWNEE WINGS WANTED
1975 Pawnee D, - 260
HP, 2700TT, 120 SMOH, Very Clean with GPs, weathaero,
General Aviation
New 400 “
Notice:
Take advantage of the New Stimulus Program…We
have customers looking for lease back Cessna’s
2005
Cessna T206 - Garmin 1000 mint, clean, NDH.
New 2007 Cessna 182-call for
information.
Cessna
162 LSA “Skycatcher” Now Taking
Orders.
1998 Cessna 182, 1182 TT,
Mint, NDH Nexrad weather, stormscope, Altitude Preselect.
We are a General Aviation
Cessna Single Engine Distributor.
Call us for New Aircraft and All Cessna Parts
TRUCKS
Several
load trucks fold over boom, water also.
From $6,950.00 and up!
PARTS
Cool Start kit for Turbines.
·
Like
New Swathmasters for
Piper Brave, Pawnee, Air Tractor, Thrush, AG Cat.
·
All
Types Spreaders New
& Used 25", 38", 41" Transland, Breckenridge.
·
Several firewall forward M18 engines
·
DC3 Props for M18
!!!!!
New
Captain Crunch Can Opener
– Rinser
List Price - $2,100.00 *Special
Price* $1,250.00
Top
of the line Hand Held Garmins
GPSMAP
496 or GPSMAP 396
Also other models for
fishing and hunting.
Thrush
Spar Caps now available
Free-Pilot Placement.
Patternator-the device that is used to measure spray distribution.
Paint
Expanded Dealer
Mid-Continent
Aircraft Corp. – MidSouth/MidWest
Landry
Aero – South/Southwest
Need special colors?
IF IT’S
A MID-CONTINENT ANNUAL,
IT’S
THE BEST.
WE
Mid-Continent E-Mail
Directory
A/C Sales - sales@midcont.com
A/C Parts - parts@midcont.com
A/C Insurance - acinsurance@midcont.com
Satloc
Del
Norte Systems
Full in house repair new or used.
WAAS
Updates
Plane News
As we review the Ag aviation,
market place one thing stands out above everything else, the similarity of
worldwide markets.
Crops are similar-banana
trees need the same control everywhere; wheat requires fertilizer, other crops
something different. Nevertheless, as the technology has advanced so greatly in
recent years, so have inputs, control procedures, and yields.
Back in the thirties, a lot was said of Henry Wallace’s ever-normal granary. In these
times of plenty, it takes effort to think of a world food shortage. Yet it is
possible with 1 ˝ billion people in
It would seem to me to be naive if we did not see a continuing escalation of
costs and looming shortages. This bodes well in the short run for Ag aviation
and allied Ag lines to grow. And there is now already
a shortage of Ag planes and pilots, third world needs have moved into the 21st
century, too. So how do we keep the industry healthy and sound? Innovation is
always present to improve the system. But it would
seem to me a major shift in our equipment application techniques or in
chemicals is foreseeable and needed.
Will there be unmanned
vehicles following GP’s maps of the acreage, satellite timing of inputs, or
something else such as timed-release chemicals trigged off by some means other
than weather? Speculation is needed now to counteract a feeling of complacency
and well-being, only to be followed by some earth-shaking happening?
We need to be cognizant of possibilities, good and bad all of which need to be
factored into our long range planning. A
little thinking outside the box is good for everyone.
Plane Talk
What if all
the innovations and creature comforts disappeared from our aircraft?
Tony Miles and I were reminiscing the other day about the changes. We have
become spoiled and lazy, but that is the sign of the times. Without some of the
creature comforts, some pilots would do something else. Let us look at a few
developments..
Electric starters replaced
hand propping, or even battery only starts. There would be no turbines! Itemizing a few “new” inventions now common place.
Removable side panels,
partial and complete canopies, 200 gallon plus hoppers, hi lift wings, air
conditioning, weathaero and electric pump fans, large brake systems, fancy
booms replacing drilled conduit, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 1000 gallon
hoppers and finally the advent of turbo power.
Guidance systems, fuel flow
meters, precision application, variable rates and electronic field marking.
The fledgling crop during
business has developed like topsy, and has come of
age.
In addition, look how state
and national associations have grown and prospered in only 50 plus years. It
speaks well for the industry, its leaders, and all associated with it.
We cannot rest on our laurels
though.
Change and adaptation will
continue. However, if we had to go back, I wonder how
many of you would be content to go back to dusting with that cloth sack PA18
hopper. Where would agriculture be today? We take all the research and new
chemistry as just part of the changes. Look at the consolidation in the
chemical and seed business. Phenomenal but all stimulated by
the desire to do better, more efficiently. Just do not lose sight of
where we have been.