A C170B gets some national air time
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A C170B gets some national air time
I just caught part of an episode of "Wings at Work" on the Discovery Wings Channel and lo' and behold - the was a C170B! The episode is called "Classroom in the Sky" and talks about flight instruction of various types - mountain flying, seplane, etc. The C170B (N1881C) is featured in the mountain flying segment and appears to be a '53 or '54 given the cowl, rounded rear windows, and tailwheel steering arrangement. Soooo, check your schedules and pop a tape in the vcr if you are interested...
Doug.
Doug.
Re: N1881C
Yep it is a 1953 C170B located in California
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A friend of mine,Andy Troia, is a former owner of N1881C. He bought it back around 1998 from longtime Association member Bob Schroers (of glareshield fame) who owned it for years. Alas,Andy ended up selling it just a couple years later after he moved to Colorado and started working as a CFI. I hope whoever owns it now is having fun with it......
We called it "the dinner mint" around the airport because it was painted pistachio ice-cream green with chocolate brown trim.
Eric
We called it "the dinner mint" around the airport because it was painted pistachio ice-cream green with chocolate brown trim.
Eric
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Yeah,that's him--dark hair,beard,glasses. He ended up working as a CFI for Strand there in Grand Junction. I've lost touch with him,at least for the time being,but the last I heard he had gone back to making a living as a merchant sailor and had bought himself an 85-horse Luscombe. I don't have cable or dish TV,but maybe I can get one of my friends who do to tape the show for me. Do Andy & his 170 get much screen time?
Eric
Eric
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