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Airplane Owner Maintenance - By Dean Showalter

Dean Showalter

A podcast devoted to airplane owners and the maintenance of their airplanes.

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253 – Missed Windows of Opportunity

Airplane Owner Maintenance - By Dean Showalter ·

2025/04/16

This morning I felt the inspiration to record a podcast episode… I got my hotel room set up with my computer and my microphone, and there it sat. I missed the window of opportunity… for whatever reasons, I did not record. And this afternoon, the inspiration was fading away. And then I remembered something. Often […]

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252 – Why Does the Bonanza Gear Relay Breaker Pop?

Airplane Owner Maintenance - By Dean Showalter ·

2025/03/11

(If you’re in a hurry, scroll down to see the tiny little chafed wire that caused this whole conundrum.) Now here’s the story… This landing gear relay breaker had been popping intermittently: It came time for annual inspection and we decided to replace the breaker with a new one, in order to rule out a […]

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251 – Bennett’s Exhaust Valve Rescue on his Cessna TTx

Airplane Owner Maintenance - By Dean Showalter ·

2025/02/26

Bennett contacted me awhile back to see if I could lap an exhaust valve for him. The #4 exhaust valve showed a very uneven appearance when viewed with his borescope. Bennett flew in to KSHD one morning and we got started. Before lapping, we checked the cylinder compression and it was 29/80… not good. Here’s […]

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247 – Brake Failure After Landing

Airplane Owner Maintenance - By Dean Showalter ·

2024/09/20

Everything looks normal in this photo, right? What we can’t see from this angle is the fact that the brake disc has broken in two pieces! Check it out: Here’s the story: The pilot landed the Piper Cherokee, and after a successful landing, something gave way on the left brake, and it became ineffective. Now […]

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244 – Down a CHT Rabbit Hole!

Airplane Owner Maintenance - By Dean Showalter ·

2024/08/06

During a recent prebuy evaluation on this nice Beech A36 Bonanza, the question came up, “Does the old analog CHT gauge need to work in order for the airplane to be considered airworthy?” (In this case, the analog CHT gauge had an INOP placard on it.) Check it out: The airplane has a JPI engine […]

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243 – A Stranded Piper Saratoga

Airplane Owner Maintenance - By Dean Showalter ·

2024/07/05

This airplane appeared on the ramp not long ago at the Shenandoah Valley Airport in Virginia. I discovered it had taken off, and then very quickly made a 180 and returned for landing due to engine trouble. The pilot thought he may have lost a cylinder. His mechanic stopped by to check it out, and […]

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240 – MEI Check Ride Struggles

Airplane Owner Maintenance - By Dean Showalter ·

2024/05/07

This ‘ol Piper Apache served me very well to get my MEI training and check ride done. Listen to the audio for this episode to hear how my check ride went… it was a challenging one! This part of the podcast is toward the end. This episode also covers something we did for our son […]

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239 – When Your Perfect Airplane Gets a Prebuy

Airplane Owner Maintenance - By Dean Showalter ·

2024/04/13

Note: Scroll down to see who I unexpectedly met in Florida this past week! Now for the Prebuy… it was some months ago, and I did a prebuy inspection on a nice airplane on behalf of the buyer. I also became good friends with the owner / seller, for which I was grateful, because sometimes […]

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237 – Checkride Butterflies!

Airplane Owner Maintenance - By Dean Showalter ·

2024/03/05

My CFII checkride is in three days! Yikes! I’m excited, and I have a few butterflies as well… I just hope they are friendly butterflies 🙂 Today’s podcast episode is about checkrides, and some encouragement for all of us to move forward with whatever that next step is… whether it’s a private pilot certificate, an […]

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