Landing Gear Clevis Pins

Uncle Rog

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We took off Thursday afternoon for a short trip up in the Sbdo mts. My friend came in a little while ago with a twisted up piece of wire that was stuck in my tire, upon closer inspection I realized it was the clevis pin from the landing gear foot on the off door side. The pin was still in place on the foot and looked good. I noticed we had lost the pin on the door side in August AFTER we had a flat in Lodi. I replaced it with a cotter pin "in stock"in my bag of tricks, only had one however. Take note: the flat was on the rear door side tire and the clevis pin today was in the rear off door side tire! I never even considered the flat was from the pin, who knows? That being said I would change out those clevis pins with cotter pins poste haste!..........UR
 
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