The International Cessna 170 Association

George wrote "Unfair as it may seem.... FAR's give right-of-way to aircraft on final." I was number 2 flying on Hawkeye's left wing. Here is a question. The FAR's give the right-of-way to the aircraft on final, but, who was on final first? The guy landing with a tailwind in the C210 had no...

KJGG Williamsburg VA. "Charlies" Great $100 burger (lots of great sandwichs) Eat inside or outside under umbrellas about 50 yards from the runway and watch the planes land and take off.

The flying yesterday was much more fun that sitting on the couch and watching college football (that's much more fun when the snow flys and the weather is not conducive to flying). Yesterday was sure a fun day to fly in the Suffolk area with unlimited visibility and reasonably smooth air. Glad to ha...

The 170 is a great plane. On September 28th this year we will have owned ours for 4 years. N1909C. I keep it hangered at SFQ (Suffolk Executive) and enjoy showing it. If you would like a tour, let me know and we can meet at the hanger. I will be going out this Saturday (1 September) from about 12 to...

Chris, Congradulations on your purchase. I have a 170B in the area at SFQ (Suffolk Executive) . Would love to see your bird and well as show you N1909C. We have owned our plane for almost 4 years and have flown to Oshkosh 3 times. We fly over to PVG for a $100 hamburger once in awhile. Will have to ...

George, which PS Engineering intercom do you have? I just purchased a PA 6000MC audio panel at OSH and am waiting to have it installed. Would be interesting to know if you had that unit. I now have an older PS 1000 intercom and separate marker beacon mounted below the panel that I will replace with ...

The pilots seat is does not have the vertical position problem as it is a different part number and has a threaded rod with a crank handle to adjust the vertical position and another crank for the height adjustment. It doesn't have the same latch and ratchet system as does the co-pilots seat that fa...

George, if I read the AD correctly, it states "The NPRm proposed to require you to install a modification kit on both crew seat back cylinder lock assemblies, which replaces the cylinder lock with a new model cylinder lock, OR install a steel lock rod/bar on both crew seat back cylinder lock as...

When I bought my 170 3.5 years ago, it had non-original seats installed. In 1982 an A&P installed used, serviceable seats Part # 0515001-20 (pilots) and Part # 0500210-130 (co-pilots). My wrench guy found the paper work lacking on the installation and did some research. He submitted a 337 and wr...

Gary Wiley
1954 170B SN 26054
Avcon 180

As I said in my original post on December 7th. " I have an Avcon conversion 360 A1A 180 Hp Lycoming with the CS prop. Does anyone know why there are two Avcon STCs? Mine is SA806CE. It calls for a 74" prop. The other Avcon STC conversion is SA749CE and is for the 360-A1A or the 360-A1B and...

Thanks Steve, I did look at the springs and they seem to be just fine. Maybe they are weak? I dressed the ratchet with a file to make it square and that seemed to work for several months. But it is slipping out again. Can't keep filing it. I had even tried to safety wire it in the notch but didn't h...

My 170b had Cessna series 100 seats installed when I purchased it. The copilot’s seat back has had several sudden collapses while in flight (the first being on my bi-annual review with a CFI! In my investigations of fixes, I found on the Cessna owner’s site an AD for some of the 172 fleet. It ca...

The one Watkins is selling is the 76" so that wouldn't work and the price I was quoted from Hartzel was cheaper. I will have to take a look at the over haul record of my prop, but I don't think it has been done for a long time. It is in good shape without any nicks. What does an ECI test run? I...

This AD just dropped a huge hole in the family budget. I have an Avcon conversion 360 A1A 180 Hp Lycoming with the CS prop and the bad hub. Does anyone know why there are two Avcon STCs? Mine is SA806CE. It calls for a 74" prop. The other Avcon STC conversion is SA749CE and is for the 360-A1A o...