The International Cessna^® 170 Association

I'm thinking about having my "alternate" '56 model painted and I'm interested in yellow. Does anyone have any colored pictures of a yellow 170? I'd really appreciate your sending anything available.
My "alternate" airplane is the spare I keep around in case I really screw up and bust my "primary", and I really, really did.
What color do the rest of you guys paint your spare airplanes?

I keep my spare/next airplane in the back of my mind--it's any color I want it to be that day!
I can barely afford the one (real) airplane I've got now! No spares for me!

Eric

My "alternate" airplane is currently owned by Avemco in the form of an insurance policy!

Nice hearing from you BL. I have seen a lot of pretty yellow airplanes. One that stands out is a 190 I sold that was just the perfect shades of yellow and a creamy off white that really looked sharp.

My spare airplane should be yellow but in fact is a green and white Cub. I think yellow could work on a 170 but I'd make it a bright or lighter yellow not the orange yellow I see on some Cubs. I'd also avoid a black lightning stripe on the side

BL... Since I am a big fan of the stock scheme on the 56... how about a overall white with a blue and yellow 56 paint scheme? My web site has pictures of my stock 56 and the paint scheme is from the factory. Just my two cents...

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Blue Skies,

BL, there are TWO yellow 170's based at my airport, GPM! Pat's is an A model, and Chuck's is a B model. They are both show stoppers! Very, Very, Very pretty airplanes. Chuck's has a Garmin 430 in the panel and he has had the plane around 40 years. Pat is a co-pilot of the local B17 and T6 over at Ft Worth and helps maintain those two aircraft. So, like Chuck's, his 170 is very well maintained. Short story - 170's look fantastic in yellow.

A buddly of mine, who flies a 182 in the Idaho backcountry painted it mustard yellow with red (ketchup) stripes. At the Smiley Creek flyin a few years ago, it stood out very visible among the 50 of so aircraft there. It looks good yellow and red and no one can miss it.

We also have a 1946 Stinson 108 with a 165 Franklin in it, white and blue strips, and a PA32-301T with a white base and blue strips. The 170 is polished aluminum with red strips. The Stinson will need the fuselage covered in a few years and we are thinking about red (base) and yellow stripes for it.

Yellow looks good but its for people who are scared of Orange!

Wait a minute... wernt you once scared of orange? And one of your airplanes you painted white/blue/yellow...

The only airplane I care for in yellow is a Cub. No offense.
There's a Canadian 170B based on the ramp at Blaine WA painted yellow,looks like it mighta been sprayed on (or rolled on?) right there on the ramp. Not enough yellow paint to quite cover the zinc chromate underneath. It used to be painted just plain old dark green zinc chromate,I was told that the owner went with the yellow just for viz in case he went down in the bush.

Eric

Yellow is for Cubs and Stearmans. Red is for Pitts Specials. Cessnas should be white or aluminum with almost any color trim.
Just my opinion-
Rudy

Hello Dick, Look on susan's website. There are several good examples of a yellow paint job especially the last one on the site. Your plane is on there as is mine with your engine. Good Luck with Yellow. Her website is:susang777.home.mindspring.com/170pics

zero.one.victor wrote:The only airplane I care for in yellow is a Cub. No offense.
There's a Canadian 170B based on the ramp at Blaine WA painted yellow,looks like it mighta been sprayed on (or rolled on?) right there on the ramp. Not enough yellow paint to quite cover the zinc chromate underneath. It used to be painted just plain old dark green zinc chromate,I was told that the owner went with the yellow just for viz in case he went down in the bush.

Eric

What for? Hoping everyone would ignore him?

Bruce, I believe that ugly-on-anything-but-a-Piper Cub yellow is called "chrome" yellow.

I agree with Rudy...and there's a 170A in my neck of the woods that someone doubtlessly is very proud of it's Christen Eagle paint scheme. I have to admit, I hope he's not reading this, that scheme is drop-dead gorgeous on a Christen, but it's possibly the ugliest paint scheme I've ever seen on a 170.

With my tan and brown colors I have thought a bit about the visibility if I went down, especially in the desert. Also the visibility of my plane flying from a plane above me. If you share these concerns think about the terrain color you'll be flying over. Yellow is pretty good overall in that regard.

According to the U. S. Army, their highest inflight collision rate was with airplanes painted up in International Orange tips and tail feathers.