Stretcher on eBay
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Re: Stretcher on eBay
Arash, Unfortunately for that authentic C-170 air ambulance restoration project this is not the correct stretcher. What is cool is that nobody would ever know and this style doesn't take a lot of additional paraphernalia. Compare the correct stretcher in the first picture to the one used starting with the 1962 C-172.Angel Flight missions, and 3.) going for those endurance records with a buddy. If you add Flint tanks (23 gal. useable), a Javelin tank (17.5 gal. useable), and Del-Air's long range tank STC (67 gal. useable) you get a bladder-busting 107.5 gallons or 14.5 hours 'til dry @ 7.5 gal/hr.
I'm on hotel standby in OAK this week (and Christmas week) Musing too much on the many record-breaking endurance flights that originated here!
Besides the bling factor at fly-ins this would be handy to have 1.) when backcountry camping, 2.) doing I'm on hotel standby in OAK this week (and Christmas week) Musing too much on the many record-breaking endurance flights that originated here!
Gary
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Thanks for saving my day Gary and pointing out it is the wrong stretcher. I'd love to have one of these for my 170 which was once equipped. The bid would have to be 49.40 though.
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Bruce, As an air ambulance guy you need to buy it! It's got your name all over it. I won't tell anybody it's not the right model!
Gary
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For $500, see if they can at least replace the seat rollers
Unless General MaCarthur took a nap in it and signed the bottom, I'm with Bruce on the $49.95 buy it now price.
Unless General MaCarthur took a nap in it and signed the bottom, I'm with Bruce on the $49.95 buy it now price.
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Like I said maybe for $49.4 (and free shipping). It's cool but not $494 cool.
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This would be great if you had an auto-pilot, just put it in auto and roll over and take a nap.
Ed Booth, 170-B and RV-7 Driver
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Wonder where you can find the split rear seat?
Karl
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I have a split rear seat but not from a 170. I can see if it fits. You would also need an extended baggage with the old style stretcher. I have never seen one of those.
I have a new style stretcher that came with my 1958 C180. The previous owner hauled dead people for a funeral home. I have not used it for anything.
I have a new style stretcher that came with my 1958 C180. The previous owner hauled dead people for a funeral home. I have not used it for anything.
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Richard Pulley
2014-2016 TIC170A Past President
1951 170A, N1715D, s/n 20158, O-300D
Owned from 1973 to 1984.
Bought again in 2006 after 22 years.
It's not for sale!
2014-2016 TIC170A Past President
1951 170A, N1715D, s/n 20158, O-300D
Owned from 1973 to 1984.
Bought again in 2006 after 22 years.
It's not for sale!
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Ewww, creepy!!! At least that's the one type of passenger that will never complain!hilltop170 wrote: The previous owner hauled dead people for a funeral home. I have never used it for anything.
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Actually they do complain sometimes. I talked to a guy who used to do this, and he said there were instances where pressure changes would cause the "passenger" to groan.rydfly wrote:Ewww, creepy!!! At least that's the one type of passenger that will never complain!hilltop170 wrote: The previous owner hauled dead people for a funeral home. I have never used it for anything.
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After flying that plane for 32 years I hardly notice the smell anymore.
Richard Pulley
2014-2016 TIC170A Past President
1951 170A, N1715D, s/n 20158, O-300D
Owned from 1973 to 1984.
Bought again in 2006 after 22 years.
It's not for sale!
2014-2016 TIC170A Past President
1951 170A, N1715D, s/n 20158, O-300D
Owned from 1973 to 1984.
Bought again in 2006 after 22 years.
It's not for sale!
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Is there risk while taxiing a 170 with the tail low attitude that the stretcher patient's blood will all run to their head?
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Only if you put the patient in backwards!
Richard Pulley
2014-2016 TIC170A Past President
1951 170A, N1715D, s/n 20158, O-300D
Owned from 1973 to 1984.
Bought again in 2006 after 22 years.
It's not for sale!
2014-2016 TIC170A Past President
1951 170A, N1715D, s/n 20158, O-300D
Owned from 1973 to 1984.
Bought again in 2006 after 22 years.
It's not for sale!
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Arash, Now you can call them directly and offer them a realistic price. My original comment that this is not the right stretcher for the 170 was not entirely correct. This later style stretcher is an approved model according to the last Service Kit shown here.
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That diagram above shows the stretcher in a C-206 with reclining middle seats. It is eligible for 170, 172, 175, 180, 182, 185, 205, 206, and 210. Reclining rear seats are not required. It is an optional equipment Cessna Service Kit made under PMA by Custom Air Inc, Stuttgart, AR. I'm hoping those are storage stains on the canvas.
Getting the stretcher out of storage for the pictures below made me remember I had used it one time back in the early 1980s on a CAP mission. A gas fired water heater exploded and blew up and burned down a house in Iraan, TX about 200 road miles south of Lubbock. I lived in Odessa about 70 air miles north of Iraan and got the call about 1:00am that the only survivor was a 9yr old girl and she was badly burned and not expected to survive the 3+hour ambulance ride to the Lubbock burn center. So while she was getting stabilized I rushed to the airport and installed the stretcher in the CAP 182 and was on the ground at Iraan when the ambulance arrived. It was not a pleasant flight to Lubbock but luckily the air was smooth and the little girl survived. The airport closed with dense fog just after landing. I got a letter from her about two years later thanking me for flying her to the hospital.
Getting the stretcher out of storage for the pictures below made me remember I had used it one time back in the early 1980s on a CAP mission. A gas fired water heater exploded and blew up and burned down a house in Iraan, TX about 200 road miles south of Lubbock. I lived in Odessa about 70 air miles north of Iraan and got the call about 1:00am that the only survivor was a 9yr old girl and she was badly burned and not expected to survive the 3+hour ambulance ride to the Lubbock burn center. So while she was getting stabilized I rushed to the airport and installed the stretcher in the CAP 182 and was on the ground at Iraan when the ambulance arrived. It was not a pleasant flight to Lubbock but luckily the air was smooth and the little girl survived. The airport closed with dense fog just after landing. I got a letter from her about two years later thanking me for flying her to the hospital.
Richard Pulley
2014-2016 TIC170A Past President
1951 170A, N1715D, s/n 20158, O-300D
Owned from 1973 to 1984.
Bought again in 2006 after 22 years.
It's not for sale!
2014-2016 TIC170A Past President
1951 170A, N1715D, s/n 20158, O-300D
Owned from 1973 to 1984.
Bought again in 2006 after 22 years.
It's not for sale!