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pojawis
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Interior Design Schemes Wanted

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Looking for original upholstery patterns for seats and interior. Anyone have good resources for this?
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Bruce Fenstermacher
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What year?

We have a member in northern NJ that has an original interior in a '54 that might be photographed and measured.
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My '53 interior is in compliance with it's original interior.
'53 B-model N146YS SN:25713
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons. ;)
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Mine is a '53; flight tested 01 Dec of that year. I'm in the deciding stages and am between sticking with an original pattern and "something" else. What that "something is, I have no idea as of yet. I do know that I'll be doing the seats in an original scheme. Have the wool fabric and am tanning the leather now. Not sure what the color choices of the leather was back then, but I surmise it would've been brown. It's the panels of which I'm most undecided.

At any rate, I need some ideas so if any of y'all could send pictures, post pictures, etc., I'd be appreciative.
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Post by GAHorn »

Mike, are you sure it's a '53 model, having been first flight tested in Dec '53? By that time of year, the '54 models were well into their delivery schedules. LIke automakers, Cessna produced the next year models in the fall. What serial number do you have?
'53 B-model N146YS SN:25713
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons. ;)
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S/N 26060, N1915C. It has 10, 20, 30, & 40 degree flaps. I think the '54s had no 10 deg setting. Of course, this could've been changed along the way (without a log entry). Also, it has the C-145 engine, S/N 8172-D-3-2. When did they start putting O-300's in?

In short, I'm not absolutely sure, but all the documentation I have indicates it's a '53... Unless the S/N suggests differently...
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Re: Interior Design Schemes Wanted

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While there is a real Fabric Warehouse Inc on the internet that appears to be a nice family owned business in Alabama, the above post has hallmarks of spam or worse. I would not click on the link in that post. If you want to check out Fabric Warehouse Inc on the Internet, go through this link http://warehousefabricsinc.com/ which I have just cut and paste from the actual site. Not sure if they have anything useable for a 170, but you never know. :). I'm not endorsing them in any way. Just providing what I think is a safer link.
Gene Feher
Argyle (1C3), NY
'52 170B N2315D s/n 20467 C-145-2
Experimental J3 Cub Copy N7GW O-200
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