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News Release from: Moore Industries International
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 11 January 2007
Moore President gets pilot's license at
age 73
On 5 December 2006, Leonard Moore, founder and president of Moore Industries-International, gained his pilot's license, and now is certified to fly single-engine land-based aircraft
On 5 December 2006, Leonard Moore, founder and president of Moore Industries-International, passed all the FAA requirements for his pilot's license, and now is certified to fly single-engine land-based aircraft Mr Moore has been flying since he was a teenager in Olewein, Iowa, and went solo for the first time at age 16
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 28 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Since then, he has continued to fly, but always with instructors or other certified pilots.
He never thought about getting a license until he came across an Ercoupe model 415D aeroplane, sitting abandoned as a pile of parts at a remote California airport.
The aeroplane was a basket case: no engine, no instruments, the wings and tail were off, the rear wing spar was busted, and it was covered with rust and corrosion.
When he was a kid, Mr Moore and his dad built a model aeroplane - the kind you fly with two wires attached to a hand grip.
The toy was a model of an Ercoupe.
The Ercoupe was designed in the 1930s, built from 1946 to 1948, and billed as "everyman's airplane".
Mr Moore says the Ercoupe was sold at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago and at some JC Penney's stores (Also Macy's - Ed).
Some 6,500 were sold before the company went out of business, and about 1,000 are still flying today.
Mr Moore decided to resurrect the basket case.
He and two retired air force mechanics rebuilt the Ercoupe over five years and, some time during that period, Mr Moore decided to use it to get his pilot's license.
"Getting a pilot's certificate was one of the items on my list of things to do," Mr Moore says.
"So, as soon as we got an FAA Airworthiness certificate for the Ercoupe, I went after my own certificate".
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