Kingy (and Whirly and gasax),
Luscombe 8 series metal wing
I seem to recall that only the later 8 series had metal wings - the earlier ones were metal covered with fabric? A while back, when I was looking at buying an aircraft, I had a very similar list. Wasn't too bothered about short field stuff, but I needed something I could keep outside, and I wanted a tail-dragger. I narrowed it down to the later Luscombe 8s, and the Cessna 120/140 as Kingy says.
Then I realised that this was far too small a selection to be able to have a realistic chance of finding a good one, and decided to buy into a group instead!
(By finding a group which already had hangar space I got around the problem of finding space in London, so the need to have something that could live outdoors went away and the choices got much bigger.)
FFF
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