The International Cessna 170 Association

For those of you going to Blakesburg I would like to suggest setting a time and place to take a group picture beforehand. Last year we did it Saturday at 1 and a lot of folks were already gone.

Yeah... contaminating red is bad Ju-Ju. :lol: Anyone got a PURPLE One-Seventy? Actually saw one @ KXBP last week. I was up on the ladder adding fuel when he taxied by. It was nearly dark and I didn’t have time to chase him down. As usual I can’t get the pic to load but I’ll email it to you George!

The “W” is representative of the initial convention held in Wichita, KS.

Thanks for sharing that beautiful scenery with us Jon!

Ryan, I’m not the know-it-all I pretend to be but I’ve never heard of anyone successfully welding these or this particular alloy. 2024 is not generally considered to be repairable by welding. If anyone can do this I’d like to meet/talk to them. You’ve met Jay Baeten, talk to him about it. I didn’t ...

John put this in a google search “ interior door handle for cessna 170 http://www.cessna170.org/”. Leave the quotation marks off and you will have links to all you want to know.

Enjoyed that Jughead! I’d play it it again just for the music!

Thanks for taking us along. I've been wondering all week how the trip back was. This is the first day with more than two hours of sunshine in North Texas since you came.

The recommendations in the link below for installation recommend Velcro for fastening. I was ready to order one of their kits a year ago but didn’t like the color of the samples I was sent. If I could get the grey that shows on my devices I would have bought it. The samples I got labeled grey were a...

170s were well represented at the inaugural Lone Star STOL competition although not so many from Texas as weather was not exactly CAVU, not even close. Low ceilings light rain and cool temps made me feel like I was in Alaska. Jeff Pohl from Minnesota took first in the light touring class and Jon Jug...

If you haven't looked past the home page for this event check out this page : https://lonestarstol.com/roster/. If you spend any time attending these events or watching the videos there are several names you will recognize including some 170 drivers including C.C. Pocock and some guy who goes by &qu...

There is an article in this months AOPA magazine about the area where the convention will be.

Looks like somebody modified a license plate light to mount in that hole. Pretty sure the original didn’t come from Taiwan

Lonestar STOL Competition now has a webpage for those of us who don’t frequent the book of faces.

https://lonestarstol.com/

The linked video features the guy who is hosting this event.

https://youtu.be/VSvCmPriyg8