The International Cessna 170 Association

Thank you George for the advice. I will talk to my mechanic today and have him go that route. I forgot to go through the logbooks last night to see if when this happened previously whether they used a rebuilt / original or if they had gone with the Niagra part. It is odd that it's happened twice in ...

Hi all, On Sunday, after a fantastic fly-in weekend where I was admiring how well my plane was performing and how well the weekend had gone, my starter failed after landing and fueling up. Luckily, I was back at my home airport and not stranded somewhere far from home, especially at a fly-in in the ...

Thanks Bruce, I'll give that a try soon. Yes Richard, I live in Round Rock and have my 170 based at Taylor. I have known Ken for years from when I bought my 140A and was looking for an instructor. He wasn't instructing at the time, but we kept in touch over the years and occasionally run into each o...

Thank you all for the feedback. For now, I think I'll stick with the single weight oil to take advantage of the 15 degrees higher temp until I'm comfortable that the high temp issue is resolved. After the last couple flights not having issues despite the 100 degree weather in Texas, I am leaning tow...

After actively searching the first half of the year, I finally settled on a 170A in June. It has been a CRAZY summer with deaths in the family, lots of travel, work, and etc so I have not been able to fly as much as I had hoped. However, things seem to be settling down (knock on wood) and I've been ...

No, I bought it from a guy in South Carolina back in 2014 and have been flying it since. He had purchased it from Dave a few years prior to that. It's a great flying plane though and the only reason I'm selling is to go to 4 seats. The guy that is currently planning to buy it lives in Washington DC,...