The International Cessna^® 170 Association

My wife, at Crate & Barrel, saw a framed, old b&w picture featuring a woman standing in front of a 170 on floats, possibly in a New York harbor.
She's upset that she didn't buy it and hoped that one of you knows of the photographer or its title? I'm assuming I'll be unwrapping it for Christmas.

Thanks, Bill

The same photo is in a store called "Fly Baby" inside the nashville airport.

Sounds like a cool Christmas present, I'm pulling for you Bill.

That photo is now missing from the fly baby store in BNA. The store clerk said that they have had many pilots try to buy it over the years. In the last few months there was a remodel and nobody can find the pic.

The Fly Baby store in Minneapolis had large framed B&W pictures of the era, but not the 170. I tried looking through all the B&Ws on art.com, too many. Thanks for keeping an eye out for it.

is this the picture you are looking for? It is in the library here

http://cessna170.org/photoLib/1949Cessna170A/N41693.jpg??

You could down load it and take it somewhere and have it blown up then framed

I was quite shocked when I pulled up the picture of the lady on the C-170 float plane. She looked incredably like my late wife at that age when we got married in 1951, especially the hair do.
Tha plane looked like a 1951 "A" model to me.

You were a lucky guy, Dick

That's a great picture. The one we're talking about has a women standing on the float of a 170, she's facing the camera [resembles Audrey Hepburn], the 170 is pointed to the right. You can see the One-Seventy script on the cowl. The location appears to be a big city harbor in the 1950's. It was commercially produced.

Here it is. I originally obtained it from a Cessna sales brochure:
(That may be bluEldr in the pilot's seat)

You can bet your sweet patootie that it wasn't me in the pilot seat. I had a Stinson L-5G in those days and I never could afford a set of floats on a Master Sargeants pay.
You have to understand that a Stinson L-5G wasn't a "War Bird" in those days. It was just a real cheap old surplus peice of junk. I sold it for $900 to a patroller company. I was flying as a flight engineer instructor on B29s seven hours a day, six days a week, and flying lost a hell of a lot of its luster so I sold the airplane.

Dick, I've never doubted your ability to slip into someone else's plaything.

I really like this picture. Downloaded to the PC. Hope to use it.

Maybe a framed 8x10 in the man cave or hanger.

Sit with a hot beverage and just study every detail of the photo intently as you are grounded by the Blizzard of 2015!

Regards

gahorn wrote:Dick, I've never doubted your ability to slip into someone else's plaything.

So George, how did you find out about my courtship?

Yeah...but that photo is after the little shore-side picnic Dick had with her ...

( transitional paint scheme...)