>
>I spoke with the pilot of this pretty Cessna yesterday, because we have
>a mutual friend. But I didn't really look closely at the airplane until
>he was taxiing away to go home. I snapped a photo to get the
>registration number, thinking all along that it was a Cessna 180.
>
>Lo and behold, when I ran the registration, I found it to be a 1956
>Cessna 172. Apparently, at some point in its life, it was converted to
>conventional gear. It makes a very pretty configuration, quite
>different from the conventional Cessna 170 with its rounded rudder.
>
>http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/1956+Cessna.tif.html
>
Many years ago I took a rafting trip down the Middle Fork and main stem of
the Salmon River. The backcountry settlements and ranches along the way had
short airfields, and there were invariably Cessna 170s, 180s, and 182s
everywhere. Pretty durable aircraft.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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