Ercoupe, Aircoupe and Mooney M-10 aircraft are a beautiful, classic design. Originated in 1939 for initial production in 1940 and mass production in 1946, variants of the Coupe were made by Forney, Alon and Mooney up through 1970.
Coupe owners share useful techniques and critical information concerning owning and flying these wonderful aircraft.
Most people should be members of both ercoupe-flyin and ercoupe-tech. Everyone should be a member of -tech. Those who do not want the social and off-topic content should only join -tech.
The tech forum is restricted to Coupe related technical information, aviation technique, safety and maintaining and flying Coupes.
The flyin forum is open but intended for Coupe related social and general content.
Please address facts and ideas. Never make negative comments about any person. (Praise is always OK.) Please don't even say that information or ideas or opinions are dumb, stupid or whatever - just give the correct information and your opinion on the issues. If you can, provide references. We want this to be a positive atmosphere place. We reserve the right to moderate all messages to stay on-topic and eliminate flame-wars. New members will be temporarily moderated to block spam.
We treasure our friendly and collegial atmosphere. We encourage the participation of young people, so, please keep this forum clean, as if for your own grandchildren.
Many Coupers join Ercoupe Owners Club thru http://ercoupe.org
Most of us have no professional or expert qualifications of any kind. Even those few who have professional qualifications offer their information here as only a casual service to prompt and start your own research. It's fully up to you to check any information you find here with standard aviation industry sources such as aircraft maintenance manuals, flying instruction books and, above all, FAA regulations!