Secondly, Mooney was always one of the most responsive manufacturers in the industry when it came to modifying its airplanes to satisfy a customer’s wishes. Somehow, someway, Mooney would find a means of shoehorning in a different radio or instrument or otherwise make the airplane fulfill a requirement. You want electric landing gear or flaps? You got it. You want a turbocharger? Here it is. In-wing radar? Sure, we can do that. There seemed to be nothing Mooney wasn’t able to certify to make a customer happier.
That said, the basic recipe didn’t change. Mooney’s trademark tail stayed stubbornly erect, defying swept-fin convention, and the bulletproof one-piece wing still carried the (a-hem) compact steel-tube fuselage cage. What Albert Mooney established in the beginning has served the company’s various owners quite well; efficiency above all, getting the most miles-per-gallon out of a fast personal flying machine.
