The International Cessna 170 Association

I finally checked the two Cessna 170 advertisements in my hangar this morning. (Had snow in Middle TN today!) One ad was for the Family Car of the Air and the plane was a '48 model. The other one is for the '54 model and makes no mention of either moniker. Later one just points out vrs pluses the Ce...

Too bad the Monarch caps aren't approved for C-170/172 aircraft.

Perhaps the Family Car of the Air applied to the '48 model or maybe up through the '50 model and became the Businessliner with the B model? Have to check on a couple of old framed ads in my hangar to see what they show.

Your plane is really nice! Hope to see it in person one of these days.

Just a comment Miles. When I installed my Tail Pull Handles, I did not want to lay on the control cables. I didn't have any 4-6 inch foam so I spent more time making wooden pieces from 2x4's that were contoured to the bottom of the aft fuselage with cut outs for the cables than it took to install th...

Bruce, do you still have those GREEN torque sockets you were making? Mine still works well. Doesn't get much wear so it should last forever.

Shape looking plane! Know you will enjoy it. When a shop does this extensive work to a vintage Cessna I am always curious why they didn't go ahead and change out that T-Bar control column so there wouldn't be any issues with instruments or a center stack set up.

My Sept 20 renewal with Travers (US Specialty) was $1,035. $45k hull, $1m liab with $100k per person, $5k med per person, no ded in motion or in flight. That's $135 more than expiring and they now require an annual flight review as well as an annual physical due to age and possibly tailwheel. Howeve...

A good friend of mine is using these sparkplugs in the bottom cylinder positions. He is still experiencing a lot of lead build up and as a consequence cleans and checks all of his plugs at each oil change. He asked if I would see what experience our members may have had with this particular model sp...

My Bendix mags now have just over 500 hrs since their last inspection by Aaron Williams at Select Aircraft Services in Lancaster, TX. Aaron has closed his shop and gave me, some months ago, a recommendation for a shop in Honey Grove, TX. Don't recall the name, but they were at Love Field in Dallas p...

Steve Grimsley did an excellent article yrs ago on replacing the old cork float on these manual gauges. I followed his instructions almost to the letter when one of mine sunk and had to be replaced. It has continued work well ever since. That has been at least 20 yrs ago.

While I haven't had the opportunity, or need for repairs, to visit Del's shop, I have seen a lot of his work on others planes and its always top notch. The thing that nailed his skills for me was his rebuild of Miles Bowen's '55 170. It was truly the rise of the Phoenix

George, you bring up an interesting point. Each time there is to be a new membership directory printed (and I do like the printed version) we are supposed to check our listing to see if its correct. I do so, but obviously failed to catch the deletion of my aircraft type in at least the past three re...

Don't feel bad about ATC thinking you are a 172. So many of them have no idea what a 170 is. When they ask what type Cessna I am, I just say 172 and most times they then refer to me as a Skyhawk. The Skyhawk name didn't get on 172"s until well after mine was mfg'd and if I tell them its a 172TD...