The International Cessna^® 170 Association

hilltop170 wrote:

Aryana wrote:I don't think I've seen 24 different C-195's in my entire lifetime! That's awesome Richard...

In 2007 at the 195 Club convention in Wichita for the 60 year anniversary of the 195, there were 73 195s tied down side-by-side down. There was 1/2 mile of 195s along that taxiway. It was a sight to behold!

Pictures

I do have a panoramic picture of that but have gone from PC to Mac since then and would have to find it. I tried to find it on the 195 website but was not able.

lowNslow wrote:

hilltop170 wrote:

Aryana wrote:I don't think I've seen 24 different C-195's in my entire lifetime! That's awesome Richard...

In 2007 at the 195 Club convention in Wichita for the 60 year anniversary of the 195, there were 73 195s tied down side-by-side down. There was 1/2 mile of 195s along that taxiway. It was a sight to behold!

Pictures

Aryana wrote:Richard, I would love to see that picture too. I was lucky to hook up with a friend in a nearby hangar that had a 190 & 195. I got to fly the 195 a lot and fell in love. That 300 hp "Shakey Jake" was fun to work on and always made me smile when we pulled the pins and swung the whole engine and prop over to the side.

My EAA chapter president has a really nice 195 that I have yet to go up in but it makes me lust after a round engine Cessna badly!

OK Karl and Arash, I spent several hours searching for these pictures. Like I said earlier, I switched from PC to Apple and do not have a good way to transfer pictures from one to the other so I just took screen pictures off of the PC with my iPad. Then, I had to reduce the resolution in order to upload to the this site. So, the quality is not so good but you can still get the idea of what I described. The line of 195s goes over the hill and I could not get a better angle for the picture.

The picture shows the 1/2 mile line of C-190/195s at the 2007 C-195 Club fly-in in Wichita for the 60th anniversary of the 190 series. Even with some of the planes double-stacked in the tiedowns, with 73 planes there, they stretched over 1/2 mile down the taxiway.

Also at that fly-in were several Cessna employees from the 1940s and 1950s. Mort Brown and Darrel Worley were two of the test pilots who did the production test flights on C-170s and C-190/195s. Anyone who had their original aircraft logbooks with them got them signed again by the original test pilot. My 195 was test flown by Mort Brown and since I knew he was going to be there, I took my original logbook and at 99 years old, had Mort re-sign it. Mort did not test fly my C-170 but did fly the s/n on either side of mine, bummer.

You're welcome Arash. The 2007 195 convention/fly-in had the most 190/195s of any convention anyone could remember. Every year at the convention, there are usually at least 30 190/195s. The 2015 convention will be at Chino, CA Sept. 10-13. And if you go to Oshkosh, there should be about that many there as well.

hilltop170 wrote:You're welcome Arash. The 2007 195 convention/fly-in had the most 190/195s of any convention anyone could remember. Every year at the convention, there are usually at least 30 190/195s. And if you go to Oshkosh, there should be about that many there as well.

Thanks for the pictures Richard, wish I could have seen that many 190/195 lined up at once.

You're welcome Karl.

Hello again,

How about southern California this time?

Thank you

-Greg J