The International Cessna^® 170 Association

KCCR, 26 feet msl, Continental IO-360.

(I live at sea level, but there are plenty of mountain airports within an hour or two)

CYGB 340 ft. O-360.

Metal Master wrote:N1208D 60 Ft. S50 Auburn WA. I worry about the polar Ice caps and global warming

LIKE. (according to Dr. Robt Ballard discoverer of the Titanic and Oceanograher…. it’s already too late to save the ice caps. They WILL disappear within the nest 100 years regardless of what we do now. (This is according the the lecture I attended at UT/Arlington he delivered.)

HIs solution? Empower and raise women to public office. It is women who establish schools, churches, and civilize societies and the most abused drug in history is testosterone.

It was a woman who invented barb wire , found radium , electric chair . Oh by the way, my airport is 8 ft above sea level with 180hp. and still not enough ponies .

120’ MSL. With my O-300A and McCauley 76-53 cruise prop. Most days at 1900 lbs., I can take off and clear the the trees in 1800’. Just don’t ask me to climb quickly after that!

Aurora Airport KARR (Sugar Grove, IL) 710'
Lottig Field (Zenda WI) 1105'

Anyone Wyoming based?

JSwift wrote:120’ MSL. With my O-300A and McCauley 76-53 cruise prop. Most days at 1900 lbs., I can take off and clear the the trees in 1800’. Just don’t ask me to climb quickly after that!

For the C170/172 a 7653 is listed as a standard prop. The cruise prop is 7655. The climb prop is 7651. (according to most sources such as TCDS and McCauley Mx Manual)

Stock O-300A, McCauley 76/53
1982-1990, at and around KTHA, 1084 MSL
1990-1996, at and around KPCU, 65 MSL (Picayune, MS; no longer exists.)
1996-2014, KTSP, 4001MSL
2017-Present, 45G, 973 MSL

Vertical wrote:Anyone Wyoming based?

Never based there, but did depart KRKS once on an 80F day; AWOS was calling 9500 DA. About 2100lb GW, leaned to max RPM, crossed the departure end of RWY 27 at about 50-100 AGL, 30 of which was due to the downhill grade. I certainly wouldn’t want to base there with a stock 170.

cessna170bdriver wrote:

Vertical wrote:Anyone Wyoming based?

Never based there, but did depart KRKS once on an 80F day; AWOS was calling 9500 DA. About 2100lb GW, leaned to max RPM, crossed the departure end of RWY 27 at about 50-100 AGL, 30 of which was due to the downhill grade. I certainly wouldn’t want to base there with a stock 170.

Returning to Texas from the Tehachapi Convention which Miles famously-Hosted …. Jamie and I stopped for a couple of days to visit Mesa Verde… the airport being KCEZ (Cortez)…. which is at 5917’ MSL….. (I don’t recall noting that at the time and the surrounding cliffsides and mountains lead one to think of the airport as at a low elevation. …and it is… compared to those gorgeous cliffs….)

It was summer….and we had our usual overload of baggage required by my better-half….and I had not yet read the article Steve Grimsley had written about he and his father stopping there once-upon-a-time when they may have collected cactus-thorns in their butts during their take-off….

N146YS still has an O-300 with a “cruise” 7655 prop. That hot summer mid-day full-of-fuel takeoff was successful mostly due to curvature-of-the-Earth…
As Elmer Fudd might say, We saw a lot of yucca and cacti up vewwy wewwy close for a vewwy vewwy long time.
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427ft
AK28

Correcting my earlier post. Yes my 76-53 prop is the middle range, not the cruise prop.

KEVW Wyoming
7130 MSL/7300 field length
Stock O-300 (does ok but I don’t fly in the heat) it also helps that both ends of runway drop off downhill. I usually fly lightly loaded and take off in about 4500 feet.

CYLL
2200’
0-300 in CFFPR