The International Cessna^® 170 Association

Robert Eilers wrote:If money wasn't an issue I'd own a Howard.

If money wasn't an issue I'd own a P-51 or a P-38. Fully armed.

With $100K I would pay off the note on mine and fly it for a while like the gas was free.

Well if money is no object, you guys have your dreams and I have mine!!!!!

I too would pick the Howard. Classic aircraft, great sound. And I'll never forget Becky's comment when she saw her first Howard at their flyin just prior to Oshkosh in Cable WI. "Gee, you could get the dogs and a FULL size cooler in the back of that airplane!" Gotta love a woman who thinks like that!

For now, we can't beat the 170. Sure I wish it had a bit more power once in awhile, and we'd love another 20 knots, but for our budget and use it's pretty darn practical. We still pinch ourselves and consider us lucky to be able to enjoy what we have.....

Well now if money was no object I certianly wouldn't stop at ONE plane after I bought a few helicopters.

I've flown a Howard. I'd much rather have a nice C-170 with a continental IO-360 engine and a CS prop. They fly much nicer.

gahorn wrote:Is this the Flying L you visited?

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And... (I wasn't going to post this one.... but ....just for Miles....) "A flight into YesterYear.....!"

That's the one! We were there in the 'then', 1952. Stayed a whole week. Rode horses, swam in the pool, ate in the mess hall with the cowboys, went to a REAL rodao, and to a sawdust floor western bar/niteclub. Pretty neat stuff for a 13 year old boy that loved the west. It was a real working ranch then. The owner, Col. Lapthem, flew in in his Beech 18 and sat around the pool with the rest of us, drink in hand.
Now the ranch is gone and as said, it's just a time share/condo place with a golf course. Loved it better in the old days.
Oh ya, we were there with the same 170 I have now.

Bruce,
I am a pretty slow learner but this summer I figured out that my dream machine (Bell 47) had to go due to the cost of ownership. I kept one after selling out my cropdusting business in 2000 and had plans for a lot of retirement fun.(Still 10 years away) When I projected into the future the cost of time life parts even though I tried I couldn't justify the cost. Don't feel too bad though I traded it for a Supercub. If I have to pick which one I keep in the future, my 170 after 28 years is part of the family so its going to be a hard decision which I hope I don't have to make either. I love them both!

There was a similar thread on the Supercub.org site a while back. The general consensus was a 180 and a Supercub was the optium combination. Speed, Load and utility of a 180 and still a taildragger and fun, performance and open cockpit, of sorts, of a Supercub. Or maybe a 170B and a Supercub. Thats where I'm at anyway. Fun to think about. So many airplanes, so little time....


Bill

Robert Eilers wrote:If money wasn't an issue I'd own a Howard.

My choice "If money wasn't an issue- - -" would be

1. A Spartan Executive.
2. A Beech Stagger Wing
3. A DGA Howard D5
4. A Cabin Waco
5. A Cessna 195 --
6. etc. etc etc. etc. etc .etc Oh hell! one of every plane ever made:lol:

How's this for the ultimate performer for the back country and the paved jungle. A turbine Goose with a lounge and sleeping quarters for those trips to Alaska, S America any where any time.

The Staggerwing Beech tops my list followed by a P47, Beech 18 and a T6 on the unlimitted funds side. On the Less than $100k side I like Great Lakes or an older Huskey if you can still get one for less than $100K If you look at the less than $50 I am happy with my 170 and it will probably be the only plane I will ever own as it does more for my needs than anything else in that price range. Bill K

Under $100k:
Fairchild 24-W
C-195

If money were no object:
Waco UBF-2/QCF-2
Laird Commercial
Grumman Goose
Fleetwing Seabird
Stinson SR-8, 9, 10
T-6
P-47
Corsair

I'd just get a nicer 170.......oh and a swift with what was left over.

I had to make the choice about five years ago between our “55 B model with a 180 Lyc and Sportsman etc. etc. and a “53 160hp PA-18 which had been in the family for over thirty years…….if you consider my original partner in the airplane I (we) were the second owner(s). To be honest there was no contest. I really hated to get rid of the Cub
however the 170 would do everything the Cub would do except not land or takeoff as short. My bride, Gloria, never felt woozy in the 170 and sometimes she did in the Cub. I figured if I only needed to get into and out of 600’ bars then the 170 was good enough. Since I sold the Cub I put a 80” prop on the 170 and it is a very satisfactory performer on Wipline 2100’s in the summer.

I’m 95% done with a Glastar with a Eggenfellner Subaru and have enjoyed this project immensely………so I think if I had a $100K I may just buy another kit to keep me occupied while I wasn’t flying my 170 or Glastar.

Buck……..Galena AK in three weeks………MT now