1948 Aeronca L16BSingle-Engine Piston Aircraft • Thomaston, GA, USA

This 1948 Aeronca L16B is offered for sale by owner at $46,500, and it presents as a comprehensively restored example with just 361 hours since its total restoration by Loyd Thompson in 2010. The airframe benefits from new Sitka spruce spars, new compression struts, new drag and anti-drag wires, all new 7x19 stainless cables, a new windshield, and new stainless tail brace wires. The restoration also includes Goodyear brakes and Michelin 700x6 tires, with the aircraft finished in Poly-Fiber and Poly-Tone paint.

Power comes from a Continental C90-8 engine that has been thoroughly reconditioned with new Continental cylinders, new bearings, a...