The International Cessna^® 170 Association

Yes, Iv'e got way too much time on my hands...

Why didn't Cessna ever give a name to the C-170?

Thanks
Rich

Isn't it called the Businessliner?

Not exclusively. That moniker was also applied to the C-190 & C-195

Cessna referred to many of their smaller aircraft as "The Businessliner" and the 170 (and others) was also sometimes referred to as "The Family Car of the Air". This was in an age where the very idea of a family car was somewhat new. Only one-generation earlier the most common form of family transportation was still the wooden-wheeled wagon, and most people who could afford an airplane still recalled the newest modern improvements: electrification of homes and, in some big-cities, direct-dialing telephones (instead of going thru an operator.)

I call mine the Skychicken.

Foghorn Leghorn?

Mine was named "Faith" by the previous owner when she flew it to Indiana from California on a 2400hr engine.

Mine is nicknamed Patrick, the happy go lucky starfish from Spongebob

doug8082a wrote:Foghorn Leghorn?

Yeah, not quite a Skyhawk or a Skylane, so....a Skychicken.

Coincidentally I also call Ford Thunderbirds "thunderchickens"