The International Cessna^® 170 Association

Okay, A guy walks up to you and says "Lets make your 170 jealous. I will give you up to $100,000 to spend on another aircraft".
I would be able to narrow it to three right away.
Bell-47
Piper Supercub
Cessna 195
Bell 47 would cost to much to operate.
Supercub is kinda hard to get in and out of.
195 sure is a beautiful plane but you can't "jink" it around the sky
The winner would be a Supercub. Its just so much fun to fly!
What would you choose (and why)

Cessna 170's are never jealous. They also have no reason ever to be embarrassed, except when their owners make fools of themselves.

But I'd like to have an affair with a C190/195 sometime.

I would love to own one of those OVERPRICED Super Cubs. But I'm like you guys...always loved the looks of the 195 Cessna. I have a buddy that has several C-37's which is the predessesor to the 195. They are in various stages of restoration.

Cessna 180, up to about 1963 or so. With an original paint job!

I love my 170, but the extra power and range (and baggage door starting in 1954) would sure be nice. And I could still use auto-fuel (sorry George!)

Russ Farris

A couple of weeks ago I was introduced to a new Italian love affair, although a short-lived one.

She was somewhat familiar but with an ungainly look that takes a while to get used to. A high spirited old bird with a distinctly different smell about her, and a high pitched whiney voice that was not very flattering but told you she could get the job done.

After taking her around the patch a time or two I was definitely in love all over again. She's way too rich for my blood, $200,000, so I could only hold her for a few minutes then I had to let her go, but if I could get away with a long term affair I would.







Siai Marchetti SM1019; 317hp, @ 80knots and 80% power = 2500fpm climb rate, 18gph in cruise. It is the best flying "Cessna" I've ever flown.

Interesting article about them, http://www.warbirds-eaa.org/articles/04_02_featue.pdf.

Luckily my buddy did buy her so if he doesn't mind sharing every once in a while................

Hmmm.... 100 grand, eh? I could buy Dad's Colemill 310J and have enough left over to train, insure, maintain, hangar, and fuel it for a year or two.

Miles

hilltop170 wrote:A couple of weeks ago I was introduced to a new love affair, although a short-lived one.

She was somewhat familiar but with an ungainly look that takes a while to get used to. A high spirited old bird with a distinctly different smell about her, and a high pitched whiney voice that was not very flattering but told you she could get the job done.



Siai Marchetti SM1019; 317hp, @ 80knots and 80% power = 2500fpm climb rate, 18gph in cruise. It is the best flying "Cessna" I've ever flown.

Interesting article about them, http://www.warbirds-eaa.org/articles/04_02_featue.pdf.

OK..I have to ask..is this a Bird Dago? Is this he one based here in Anchorage? This gets my vote.

Well I'm so glad you included a real aircraft if your narrowed down selection. But I'm sure $100g's wouldn't buy and keep the Bell 47 running for very long.

I've never flown in a Cessna 190/195 but when I want to go faster in a classic airplane which is nearly all the time, the 190/195 is at the top of the list. Like the Bell 47 I'm not sure I could buy a 190/195 and keep it airworthy for very long with $100g.

The SuperCub is a great aircraft. It is the only one of the three that you listed that you could buy and keep flying for a time worth while with a $100g's.

Many of us already have a super Cub. Mine is a Clipped wing J3. At some point when I have to sell either my Cub or the 170 it will be a very difficult decision. The 170 is not a Cub and the Cub obviously can't do things the 170 can do because of size, but there are many things both can do like fly real slow and get into and out of pretty small places.

Now if I really had $100g's I'd buy/build a Mustang II (not an RVx because I like to be different) to travel to those places just bit to far for the 170 in the time I have available.

I like my 170 , but I could go for the Super Cub. Bruce, one of our chapter members is about finished with a Mustang.

John

Beech Staggerwing (would $100,000 be enough?) Had a ride in one back in '53. Really new as the owners had picked it up at the factory and flown it to the Flying L ranch in Texas where we were staying at the time. What a flyin' machine!
Otherwise, I would like my Dad's 1940 Taylorcraft back. Yellow and black, big pants, pretty wood prop, chrome grills and emblems, cork & wire fuel gage - the whole thing just like it was.

Is this the Flying L you visited?

Then:



And Now:



The Lodges Then/Now:




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

Seeing the "tuna tanks" I thought that might have been Sky King in Songbird, but the paint scheme is different. That airplane(s?) has and interesting and convoluted history.



Miles

The Flying L used to be a fly-in Dude Ranch/Resort. Nowdays it's runway is obviously destroyed, and it's a time-share property.

100K?

Probably a Decathalon. (Or a Citabria if 100K was not enough)

If money wasn't an issue I'd own a Howard.