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Interior Design Schemes Wanted
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 4:43 am
by pojawis
Looking for original upholstery patterns for seats and interior. Anyone have good resources for this?
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 12:38 pm
by Bruce Fenstermacher
What year?
We have a member in northern NJ that has an original interior in a '54 that might be photographed and measured.
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:49 pm
by GAHorn
My '53 interior is in compliance with it's original interior.
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:11 am
by pojawis
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.
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:29 am
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?
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:58 am
by pojawis
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...
Re: Interior Design Schemes Wanted
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 12:48 pm
by gfeher
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