You’ve read about this here over the years: my musings about my next airplane. Yesterday, we’ve finalized a decision to upgrade the family transportation to a Bonanza A36 Turbo. The Bonanza is a six-seat single engine airplane that can cruise at 190kts in the flight levels. It has extended tanks for an economy range of 1200 NM. This allows us to fly non-stop from Texas to either coast (Florida or California) above the weather. With six seats in club seat configuration it has enough room to comfortably travel with our family of 3, including the two dogs. It has an upgraded avionics panel with modern instruments, air conditioning for the hot Texas days and a turbo-normalized 310hp six-cylinder engine upfront, that runs incredibly smooth.

It’s been said that the most intense feeling of joy comes from anticipation, and I can attest to that. I can’t remember for how long I’ve been dreaming about a larger and faster airplane. It’s been a life long dream. Since we live in the right country to pursue flying adventures I’m so happy that this dream has finally come to fruition! I’m looking forward to many more flying adventures across the country. This airplane allows us to fly into any of the North American high altitude skiing resorts, visit family at either coast, or even island hop to the Bahamas, or explore destinations deep into Mexico (or fly non-stop to Panama). The opportunities are endless. As you can tell this is very exciting to me and I hope the family who supported this decision will enjoy the flexibility in personal travel just as much as I will.

Happy. Excited. Grateful.