BeechTalk - BT

Username Protected · **Posted:** 27 Mar 2015, 09:43

Need help sourcing a used (in good condition) Cessna 400 series heated windshield PN: 9910049-1 or -9. Really in a bind with this one and buying new is not an option.
Thanks
Derek

Username Protected · **Posted:** 27 Mar 2015, 17:01

Try Craig at 619-368-2751. Do you need it because the glass is bad or because the heating element is bad. Frankly, it's a big risk to put a used windshield in. The labor cost is huge, they have to take your panel apart. If you get a bad used windshield you'll be chasing good money after bad. If the glass is ok, I would keep flying it without being FIKI.

Also, is an acrylic windshield w/o heat an option?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 27 Mar 2015, 17:32

You call the guys at Preferred Airparts in OH?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 28 Mar 2015, 00:58

That windshield costs as much as a new Honda Accord! Cutter Aviation normally carried whatever I needed and their prices were better than Cessna or Beech, even for the new parts. Usually they would get some surplus when a 135 operation went Tango Uniform. They would have brand new parts but the parts were a few years old sometimes.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 28 Mar 2015, 13:55

Username Protected wrote:

Try Craig at 619-368-2751. Do you need it because the glass is bad or because the heating element is bad. Frankly, it's a big risk to put a used windshield in. The labor cost is huge, they have to take your panel apart. If you get a bad used windshield you'll be chasing good money after bad. If the glass is ok, I would keep flying it without being FIKI.

Also, is an acrylic windshield w/o heat an option?

Bad windshield. Heated glass. The windshield is not airworthy. ;(
Panel is already apart old windshield is 1/3 of the way out.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 28 Mar 2015, 13:56

Username Protected wrote:

You call the guys at Preferred Airparts in OH?

Yup. No joy.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 28 Mar 2015, 20:24

[quote="Sanford Gerber"]If the glass is ok, I would keep flying it without being FIKI.

Also, is an acrylic windshield w/o heat an option?[/quote

I'm not sure where Derek's customer flys, but if he flys north of Atlanta, that's probably not an option. It would also take a hit on resale.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 29 Mar 2015, 08:04

Username Protected wrote:

If the glass is ok, I would keep flying it without being FIKI.

Also, is an acrylic windshield w/o heat an option?[/quote

I'm not sure where Derek's customer flys, but if he flys north of Atlanta, that's probably not an option. It would also take a hit on resale.

Cessna 400 Series heated windshield