Mooney Aircraft Company Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 11/15/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is not located at the listed coordinates, but the coordinates are the location of the former Mooney Aircraft Company. Parking is available at the cache location.

Wichita! The Air Capital of the World! Is it true? There have been 86 different aircraft companies in Kansas and 51 of them have been in Wichita. Some of them built only one aircraft while companies such as Beechcraft/Hawker Beech, Cessna, Boeing and Lear Jet/Bombardier Learjet have built thousands. At one time Wichita built 70% of all civilian aircraft built. They still build a large percentage of all civilian aircraft built. Yes!! It is true!!

The Mooney Aircraft Company was located at 610 E. 35th Street N. in Wichita KS.The building is no longer there. They were in existance from 1929 to 1930 at this location. They moved to two other locations and were in existance there from 1946 to 1951 and 1967 to 1968. Finally they moved to Texas and are still building aircraft. They built 351 aircraft altogether in Wichita and some were called the Mooney Mite. The Kansas Aviation has a flyable Mooney Mite on display.

I have had an idea for a series of caches to honor those aircraft companies and some of their suppliers. It has taken awhile to gather all of the information so I have been working on it awhile!! The caches are all located as near as I could get them to one of their locations, best as I know. Please note that some of the buildings are still there, so look for them and take a picture because they are part of Wichita’s aviation history!! There are no codes to find a final as this series may never end, as new aircraft companies are still being formed!! I hope that you will enjoy this series of caches!!

The cache is located at: NRb Rh.0CN W0Bk K.FCa.

The cache is a cammo pill bottle. Please return and secure it as good or better than you found it.

Congratulations to Lincoln B for being FTF!!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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