The International Cessna 170 Association

Well i personally would not think about putting a Gill battery in an aircraft or lawn tractor . I used concord batteries for years but when they failed it was instantaneous and i was then stuck out in the woop woop. I hate swing starting an aircraft especially when you are by yourself. Then tried us...

I have fitted twin G5,s in my 170a ,and fitted the GMU-11 just outboard the left hand fuel tank. The kit contains SS screws. Getting the GMU-11 aligned correctly was the hardest part. I thought aligning it with the rib in the wing would be correct.”wrong” The rib wasn’t aligned exactly for and aft w...

my bows were rusted out so I replaced them with fibre glass fly fishing blank rods. no more rust stains on the headliner.

Bruce, please can you elaborate as I am confused . So how did you know you had L-19 wings and what fuel capacity were they. The L-19 had a 60 deg flap setting so the flap tracks were they retained or the 170b tracks in place. Another question how did your mechanic know about the different wing tips ...

I do not know if you are a member yet but joining it opens up gems of information that will save you money and time . Plus going to the conventions are a great source of amusement [means we all get to talk tall and strange tales of 170,s]. We have an auction during the convention where parts are sol...

The side windows can be an owner made part . The windows are normally a flat sheet of perplex but [legally???] I would use lexan. [poly carbonate ]. When measuring for the thickness ,go as thicker as you can and measure the clearance allowed between the retaining strip and the outer window structure...

i sympathise with you regarding Hertz hire cars. during the Cody convention i hired a Jeep from hertz. picked it up at Seatac and drove it to Cody. Oil consumption was 1 pint every 100 miles. The crank case was pressurising and spilling oil every where. Contacted Hertz at Seatac and was told to see ...

using a phone when driving is “dead” dangerous. i can’t understand the urgency to answer a phone at all when driving. what’s wrong using “voice mail”. Research has shown that the average travel carried out in a vehicle is less than 40 mins. So is the world going to come to an end if you do not answe...

A stones throw is the length of a cricket pitch . That’s 66ft . A normal throw of a stone is 66 ft or if you bowl a cricket ball it’s 66ft or a chain. I used to play cricket at school and recall some of the rules of then. The cricket pitch was 10 ft wide once but the “poms” [english] requested [forc...

Firstly, I am NO expert on 1948 cessna 170,s . But I do own a 170A series. When I replaced my firewall and for insulation i used a black closed foam with aluminium foil covering on one side and a thin “lead “ foil on the other . I purchased it from Spruce. It’s about 1in in thickness . When I replac...

so sorry George ,but unfortunately in this country all fluids are measured in litres. But height/distance is measured in feet in our aviation world ,but there are exceptions . Now to confuse you even more , on the ground we talk in terms of temperature it’s Celsius BUT when flying it’s measured in F...

All my vacuum gauges are gone . They have been replaced with 2 of G5,s but I left my ASI and Altimeter behind . All engine instruments are now “Electronic International digital . HUGE weight saving . The G5,s have each a standby battery . My biggest problem was aligning the Magatron in the wing . Ge...

I would be doing a load analysis of the electrical system and including dead battery situation. In Australia we have to have a listing of all electrical loads in our log book. I had a STC for a 100amp alternator when I put the Lycoming in originally. While it worked a treat it was a massive overkill...

We have had nearly 3 weeks of constant rain and yesterday blue sky. A friend and myself decided to go for a couple of hours flying. Nil wind , some clouds at 6,000 ft nothing to worry about. Temperature on ground 95deg F ,humidity was 97%. We were in a Cessna 172 [his]. we had 120 liters in tanks . ...

While there was a heap of thread drift the subject matter i was referring to was about the repair of the undersurface of a 172 C wing, We were using 6061 T6 alloy . But the next size up from standard and dimpled with a press. Our instructions came from Cessna engineering. why Cessna wanted counter s...