Mr. Originality Nut?

[Ryan Smith]

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George has gone off the deep end. See for yourself. He's exported his airplane back to El Salvador and ruined it. At least it's still RED!

Kind of eerie that there another 1953 Cessna 170 down there with such a similar registration to George's airplane in its original form AND has a baggage door.

[johneeb]

Ryan,
Did you notice it has a Cessna 170 Association decal in the rear window?
Johneb

[DaveF]

Drooped leading edges and wing tips? George, tell us it ain't so!

[Bruce Fenstermacher]

One piece windshield modified nose bowl probably for a vacuum pump, later interior wing route vents, strut fairings, longer exhaust stacks. More and more modifications found, more and more just like George's Original Not '53.

[Ryan Smith]

At least it doesn't have a God-forsaken heated pitot, nor does it have exhaust extensions or a different engine.

Come to think of it, when was the last time anyone saw George's airplane? I say he's guilty until proven innocent. Picture of himself holding today's paper under the right wing (to confirm additional light) of his airplane is what we'll need to settle this mess and make this little embarrassment go away.

[johneeb]

Nice hangar floor!

[Ryan Smith]

Nice hangar floor!

Too bad the rest of the structure looks like it's inside of a prison yard. You guys at Skyhaven have hands down the nicest hangars I've been in.

[Ryan Smith]

Ryan,
Did you notice it has a Cessna 170 Association decal in the rear window?
Johneb

Missed that! The owner doesn't appear to be a current member, however. Unless it's George...

[KS170A]

This one is also missing the R/H landing light.

[wingnut]

That baggage door looks different too. Maybe I'm not seeing right, or could be poor photo. When I try to zoom in it gets blurry It looks like it is installed an inch lower than where it should be, which is impossible

[170C]

That bird has what appears to be a '59 C-172 cowling like I have. What country uses the YS registration?

[Ryan Smith]

That bird has what appears to be a '59 C-172 cowling like I have. What country uses the YS registration?

El Salvador. George's airplane was exported there directly from the factory as YS-146. This is also a 1953 model, and YS-146P. Not sure if a batch of them were exported down or what.

[cessna170bdriver]

... What country uses the YS registration?

This is my source when I have similar questions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_registration

[GAHorn]

A couple years ago I trained the President of El Salvador's pilot in the simulator at DFW. We had an interesting discussion about what it might take to obtain the original documents my airplane carried when exported to El Salvador by Cessna. (That country retains original documents when/if the airplane is ever exported from El Salvador. They provide microfiche copies of the documents but the actual paper is retained by them.... or at least, that used to be the case. I have the microfiche but would love to have the original equip list, etc etc.)

It's interesting to see another 170B down there with such a closely matched number.

Thanks for posting!

[DaveF]

Is the tailwheel free-castering? Are there chains from the rudder?