Grumman-Gang Related Sites

"Grumman" Specific Sites

Grumman-Gang in Finland is the creation of Lauri Mattila. See the Tiedostoja page for links to FS2000 models.

Terry Kaiser is a pilot and a Microsoft Flight Simulator buff. He designs aircraft for FS. He made a Yankee model for a friend and is willing to share it with other Grumman Fanatics. You can see screen shots of the model at his web page, under "aircraft".

Mark "Snapper" Bennett is offering flight instruction geared toward Grumman owners and operators at Black Diamond Aviation, Manassas Regional Airport, Manassas, Virginia. (703) 920-0464 Cell (325) 864-3699.

The Flight Club is an Australian Grumman flying club that owns two AA5B Tigers. Information about Grumman Tigers including tips for handling, use and maintenance. FREE Classified Adverts for planes, Grumman parts or services. Weight, balance and range calculator for Grummans.

Grenaa Airfield in Denmark harbours not less than four Grumman 4-seaters. Visit the Grenaa Grumman-Gang Gallery.

Pete Conner of Yankee Aviation Services was a Grumman dealer in the 1970's up until the end. They still serivce a number of Grummans, and Pete is the maintenance contributor to www.landings.com. Pete would be happy to answer any maintenance-related questions you might have either via e-mail through his web site, or via landings.

Jeffrey Jacobs put together this zip archive containing add-on files for Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 depicting his Cheetah's exterior, instrument panel and flight characteristics. See some sample screen shots here and here. He also dug into his archives and came up with this pilot report on flying the BD-1, from Flying Magazine's 1965 Flying Annual.

Here's a HanDBase Database of US Registered Grummans for your Palm Pilot. The HanDBase application can be found at DDH Software. Requires at least 425K bytes available in your Palm handheld for the database. This database was extracted from the FAA database, current as of 2005/02. Download This CSV file if you want to create a database for your own application.

The Grumpy Gang featuring photos of the Grand Unplanned Scandinavia Tour held in July.
Next time you find yourself without an airplane in Mentone, Victoria Australia, Tristar Aviation has an AA1B for rent.

Bill & Carol Scott's Precision Engine. Overhauls and Grumman restorations. Also has "Abnormal Guide Wear in Lycoming Parallel-Valve Engines", a set of articles by Bill Marvel, past president of the AYA, and Bill Scott.

Selected publications of Textron-Lycoming. Includes Service Bulletins, Service Letters, and key reprints of the Lycoming Flyer. This site is operated by Gregory Travis, and is not affiliated with Textron-Lycoming in any way.

Here's Fletchair, a source of information parts and service. Their number is 1-800-FA-WINGS.

Barnstormers.com has a "Grummans For Sale/Wanted" section in their classified advertising.

Market Trends from Aeroprice will let you see how your Grumman's price compares with other airplanes

FlightCalc and AeroPlanner.com provide free flight planning and chart services. Try them both and choose your favorite.

AirNav is the US Airport/Facility Directory brought to life. Airport and Navaid information can be found here, as well as FBO info and fuel prices. Check out the Great Deals List for the latest reports of the best fuel prices. Paulo Santos, the provider of Airnav, asks that in exchange for using Airnav, that you help keep the fuel price information up-to-date. Send in updates for your home field. When you return from a trip, send in updates before you throw the fuel reciepts in the trash.

Mel Ott hosts a Real Aviation forum, known as THE FLIGHT DECK, as a character known as "Cap'n Tarmack" on www.avsim.com. He also has a "company" known as PFD (Professional Flight Displays). PFD can construct YOUR instrument panel, and YOUR paint scheme, with N NUMBER to allow you to fly on those stormy days right at your home computer in Microsoft Flight Simulator 98.

John Denker's See How It Flys - An online book about how these machines really work.

Now that you've talked about airplanes maybe you want to buy one. The First National Bank of Pryor based in Oklahoma is a nationwide general aviation lender. Ask for Mike Jacob

Sensenich Propeller Mfg. Co will send you a free set of those mid-blade propeller decals.

Textron-Lycoming will be of interest to all 'gangers. Too bad they never update their site.

The Air Affair has lots of good stuff like fuel prices at airports in the US and Canada, lists of flying events, destinations, etc.

CNN's radar and weather maps are great for getting the big picture before planning a flight.

Ron Bauman recommends a nice list of links to FED sites, including the NTSB. He gets preliminary accident reports there.

This is a new and better way to find out public information about airplanes, their owners and about pilots. Let's all play Big Brother!

Here's an avaition club database with an excellent list of various AYA/Grumman groups and individuals

Canadian Aviation Web Page has good links to Weather Pages, Topics of interest to Aviators, Government Links, etc.

The Aviation Business Center is a springboard to many aviation products, suppliers and services.

Youth Flight Canada Education Fund promotes aviation to youngsters. Technically it's quite a page but you better have a fast computer and Netscape 3.0.

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