The International Cessna 170 Association

I found this website for the Pearson Air Museum of Vancouver, WA. In a column labeled "Aircraft currently on display", it says they have a "1953 Cessna 170 (flew around the world in 1956-1957)". http://www.pearsonairmuseum.org/attractions.html I just sent a short email to their c...

I don't see where you are missing anything. In the absence of a modified clearance, this holding pattern should have a one minute leg. Depending on the speed of your airplane, this could be quite different from a five mile leg.

Clearly it is a beautiful day and the moderators are all out flying their 170s.....

I've pretty much come to the same conclusion Bruce. It seems to me that most mods add about fifty percent of their cost to the value of the airplane when they are new. For me, I think the windshield doesn't add much value. It has to have a windshield after all. It's not like something extra and I do...

Thanks Bruce.

Thanks Pat ! Ive worked with IA Ben Merrill Bob K. Hi Bob, Ben Merrill is a friend of mine. He used to maintain the planes I flew and does good work. Tell him Keith from Georgia said hello and I expect to be in town the last week of August to visit the guys at Denali. Sounds like you are enjoying y...

Thanks Jon, I've been able to come up with most of the information I need by searching. I'm just having to guess at the installation time for the exhaust and windshield. Can't seem to find where anybody posted, "I installed a windshield and it cost me X dollars." Of course you are right th...

Hello all, I'm trying to place a value on some modifications on an airplane that I am considering buying. I'm not sure what some of them cost new so I am finding it hard to place a value on them. I'm just looking for some ballpark figures of what these mods would cost new and I can deduct for age an...

Barnstormer's Grill at the Peachstate Aerodrome, Williamson, GA. About 30 mi. south of ATL. The old Peachstate Gliderport is being developed as an airpark for antique airplanes, complete with a restoration shop, plans for a museum, and the resturant. Nice place to see some really old airplanes. http...

How is it a moral obligation to subsidize an industry that by definition profits on the potential misfortune of others? Your obligation is not to the insurance industry. It is to your fellow citizens. For example, if a pilot visiting you were to misjudge his base turn and put his airplane into the ...

Interesting numbers. Thanks Bruce. I suppose it makes sense that CA would have more airplanes as they have a large population. And poor Alaska.. if you calculate the number of 170s per square mile of state they don't fair so well. :lol: Do the Swifts still migrate to Tenn every year? I remember year...

I was just browsing through the member directory and noticed that a place called Mulberry, FL (wherever that is) has several members. It got me to wondering where the highest concentration of 170's live. How many do you guys have living at your home field? Just curious. Keith

A whole bunch of the pilots that I work with buy foam hair rollers and cut them shorter. The small diameter ones that are about three inches long come in both baby blue and pink and a pack of 25 costs 2 or 3 bucks. A couple of whacks with the scissors and you'll have more foam thingies than you can ...

Hi all! I'm usually one of those lurkers here as I don't yet own a 170. I've gotten close a couple of times but something allways seems to come up. (The lastest being a daughter trying to finish college, who also has a new baby and a deadbeat husband..... don't get me started on that) Anyway, for my...

Thanks Guys, I'm pretty well familiar with farms.... familiar enough to know I don't want to be a farmer! My Dad's family had a dairy and that is a lot of work. And my Mother's family spent the last hundred years or so trying to scratch a living out of the red clay in Georgia. If I do pursue this I'...