Hangar Flying

[K7RQ]

I know from previous posts that a lot of us are past or present aircraft owner/pilots. How about listing aircraft you have owned and enjoyed flying?
My five were a 1946 Taylorcraft BC12D (bought in 1954 for $650!, a 1951 Tri-Pacer 125, a 1948 Cessna 140A, a 1964 Cherokee 140 and a 1960 Cessna 182Skylane. Tell us about yours!
Hal, K7RQ

[ac4r]

I know from previous posts that a lot of us are past or present aircraft owner/pilots. How about listing aircraft you have owned and enjoyed flying?
My five were a 1946 Taylorcraft BC12D (bought in 1954 for $650!, a 1951 Tri-Pacer 125, a 1948 Cessna 140A, a 1964 Cherokee 140 and a 1960 Cessna 182Skylane. Tell us about yours!
Hal, K7RQ


1948 Stinson 108-1 with a big lycoming .

[K9STH]

The only full-sized aircraft that I have owned was a 1959 Cessna 150 (tail number N5572E). 1959 was the first year of the 150. Basically, it was a Cessna 140 with tricycle landing gear, very simple flaps, and a simple electrical system.

Bought it in 1973 and sold it in 1974. The aircraft is still registered but no longer in the State of Texas.

Glen, K9STH

[KG4CGC]

Those Stinsons look like cool little planes. Seems like I saw them everywhere when I was growing up.
http://www.hangar9aeroworks.com/StinsonGallery/108gallery.html

[w4sul]

'76 Piper Aztec twin, sold in '80 and didn't fly for a couple of years. Then I started building experimental aircraft in my garage. My last aircraft was a gyroplane (N8163X) which was the most fun to fly of anything. I sold it and stopped flying in 2003.:)

[ac4r]

My dad and uncle both had Cessna 210's. Fast plane but the landing gear was a piece of junk. Many times he had to hand pump the gear and pray that it was locked.

[ad5mb]

Forgive me, Instructor, for I have sinned... I have not flown since 1985...

Cessna 152 IIs, rented. PPSEL.

100 hour incident at 98.6 hours: Strapped in the back seat of a 2 seat Beaver ( ultralight ). 92 Hp - it was a very hairy Beaver. Engine faded, then died. Ultralight "instructor" tried to turn back to the runway. Spin entry training at 400 feet. Recovery by impact with the ground. It was a crash course....

Ultralight ended up between 2 boxcars. Guys from the private railcar repair company said the car that was there was moved a couple of days before.

Found out later that this was the 4th crash for the ultralight instructor, all due to the same cause. He didn't know to start the engine up, warm it up and retorque the heads before flight, after a top end job.

[w7lpn]

PACAF(Pacific Air Forces)
UH-1N -Huey(Iroquois single engine) (Bell-412) 2 engine Navy version used by the USAF for air rescue Clark/ Korat/ Mountain Home AFB ID
C-130 -Troop & cargo- Clark Air Base Philippines/Korat Thailand
O-2A Skymaster- Forward Air Controllers- Korat Thailand

[WF7A]

As a CFII I flew quite a few planes, but didn't own one.

As for building and flying one, I helped build a BD-5 back in the mid-1970s. In 2000, I built my own powered parachute (Paladin Golden Eagle Mark IV) but had to sell it because of AIDS. (Aviation-Induced Divorce Syndrome.) However, I just came back from flying a powered paraglider (PPG) and it was a blast! If some $$$ comes my way from selling my aircraft/pilot logging software in the summer I'll be sure to buy one of those! (Here's a shot of me on a takeoff run.)

[ac4r]

PACAF(Pacific Air Forces)
UH-1N -Huey(Iroquois single engine) (Bell-412) 2 engine Navy version used by the USAF for air rescue Clark/ Korat/ Mountain Home AFB ID
C-130 -Troop & cargo- Clark Air Base Philippines/Korat Thailand
O-2A Skymaster- Forward Air Controllers- Korat Thailand


I bet it was fun hot rodding the mixmaster around

[AG3Y]

I don't fly full-sized planes, but really have fun with the R/C stuff! I did want to tell you'all, though, that if you ever get near the D.C. area, by all means go to the Dulles Airport, and be SURE to visit the new Air and Space Museum there ! It is better than the downtown facility, and there are SO MANY planes to see that your head will swim ! I just visited it this last Friday with my Son and Grandson. What a place!

73, Jim

[wa8rti]

I had about 45 hrs on a student ticket and needed one more solo cross country before going for my exam. I last flew in 1968 and never finished to get my license. I'll bet I have more aircraft on my ticket than about 99% of student pilots. They include Cessna 120, Cessna 150 and Cessna 172. Also Piper Cherokee 140 and Cherokee 180. One of my great regrets is that in 1966 there was a Taylorcraft for sale for $1000 at one of the fields I flew from . It had a new airworthiness cert and a wind driven generator and a radio. I didn't buy it because I was getting ready to go to Germany to work for the government. My first instructor started me in the Cessna 120 because he said he had seen students who started in nose wheel planes first and never could learn to land a tail dragger. He said starting in the 120 first would allow easy transfer to his 172. So my first solo flight was in the 120.

[K3UD]

I was licensed as a private pilot in 1972 and managed to fly a number of aircraft since then. After badgering my father to allow me to to take a ride in an airplane We went to Wings Field outside of Philadelphia and my father and I got a sightseeing ride around Philadelphia in Cessna 172. This was in 1964 and I was hooked. I wanted to be a pilot and it would be 7 years before I set foot in an airplane again. I took my lessons at a local Cessna Flight Center and soloed in 10 hours, in, you guessed it.... a Cessna 150.

Presently I have about 400+ hours in my log book and the last time I flew was in 2000 when I flew a 1948 Aeronca Champion.

I have flown the following: Cessna 150, 152, 172 and the Cessna 152 Aerobat. I also flew the Grumman American Yankee (a rather hot aircraft with a somewhat hight stall speed). The Citabra and Decathlon, Several Switizer sailplanes, The Piper Cherokee 6 and the Cherokee Arrow. The Piper Cub and The Piper Tri Pacer.

I never owned any of them but knew people who did and I spent a lot of money renting them. I have heard that being a Private Pilot is really a rich person's addiction. At one time I was very close to being a partner in a group owned piper Cherokee. We could have had it for about $14,000 or so. In the end we could not agree on whether or not to do it. This was probably the best thing that could have happened to us.

73
George
K3UD

[w7lpn]

I bet it was fun hot rodding the mixmaster around
It climbed faster than anything I personally had ever been in at the time.

P.S. After a rapid descent and hard landing in a Huey I can no longer fly in unpressurized cabins without getting a migraine.