The International Cessna 170 Association

170 A elevtaor dissassembeled.jpg It will not come apart without disassembly. This is a picture of the inside of a customers 170A elevator I took apart for repair of wind damage and Corrosion control, the 170A and 170B are similar in this particular area. This had both upper and lower skins replace...

I am planning to go with a NAV Worx ADS B in and out. In reviewing what I needed and talking to Sandia the manufactures of the STX 165 combination Transponder and Mode C encoder I am now running in the 170A. They are recommending the Nav Worx. I will be able to have traffic shown on my I fly 700 for...

Congratulations,
I really like the way Dave Stoots nose bowl for the cowl looks better than the other 180 HP STC's I have seen. I also like the clean look without the Carb fairing installed.
Jim

If you were a member you could look him up in the membership book from the members only page.

Defecting to another type. Well I would if someone else would buy it. I got to fly my customers 180 HP Cub Crafters Carbon Cub Solo Yesterday afternoon. It had 29 inch Alaska Bush Wheel tires and he wanted me to change them out to 8:50 X 6 inch tires so that he would not wear out the $2,000 a piece ...

Ford & 170 Dark.JPG I hauled the 170A home to Washington from Greely Colorado on a flat bed trailer. Later after completing repairs I hauled the fuselage with the gear and wheels on sitting on the back of the pick up with the Tail forward over the cab and the main gear sitting on the tail gate....

To further muddy the waters! What an “STC” is and what it is not: STC is not a word it is an acronym: Supplemental Type Certificate It supplements the original Type Certificate. It is not an approval for manufacturing Parts. That is a PMA another acronym: Parts Manufacturing Authority. A replacement...

Here is a link to the whole story from Mike Busch. And while I do not always agree with Mike Busch he is right on this one. Be sure to read the whole article or you will get the wrong impression of your compression. http://www.avweb.com/news/savvyaviator/188758-1.html. The bottom line is that as lon...

Well the AOPA fly-in at Bremerton Washington is over. AOPA has Written up a pretty good report: https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2016/august/21/aopa-fly-in-at-bremerton-awesome I do not take a lot of pictures. We were able to count about 5 170's parked around the Fly-In. I only recognize...

counsellj wrote:Metal Masher

I plan to be there with my brother in N4497B. Give me a call when you land, I would love to look at your bird and meet you.

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Jughead

Will Do!

Anyone flying in or driving into The AOPA Bremerton Fly-in this week end?
I am planning to fly over today some time after noon. See special NOTAM on arrival procedures.
Jim

Thanks for the write-up! Brought back memories from 2009 when my father and I flew up there with a couple of other friends. Must go back again... A 170A a 170B and a Citabria. The Citabria looks exactly like the one I learned to Fly Tail Draggers in and got my TW endorsement in. That is exactly whe...

hilltop170 wrote:Jim-
Would you mind if this story is put into the 170News? We are always looking for new material and it would make a good article.

That would be fine with me
Jim

The Flying Trip From???? To ???? We just finished our trip to Cavanaugh Bay (Coolin Idaho). It was the first out of state trip over the Cascades for the TCM IO-360 powered Cessna 170A/210 and the first time fully loaded with camping equipment. We had initially planned to fly into Schafer Meadows Mon...

Here at Boeing head injuries are one of the big items causing loss of work. As a result everyone now has to were a bump cap anytime they are in the "shadow of the aircraft. My group maintains all of the little airplanes the Cessna C-206 the Caravan and until recently the Helio Courier (it was d...