Why no name?

Iceman07 · Post by **Iceman07** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:28 am

Yes, Iv'e got way too much time on my hands...

Why didn't Cessna ever give a name to the C-170?

Thanks
Rich

4-Shipp · Post by **4-Shipp** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:00 pm

Isn't it called the Businessliner?

doug8082a · Post by **doug8082a** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:12 pm

Not exclusively. That moniker was also applied to the C-190 & C-195

Post by **GAHorn** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:11 pm

Cessna referred to many of their smaller aircraft as "The Businessliner" and the 170 (and others) was also sometimes referred to as "The Family Car of the Air". This was in an age where the very idea of a family car was somewhat new. Only one-generation earlier the most common form of family transportation was still the wooden-wheeled wagon, and most people who could afford an airplane still recalled the newest modern improvements: electrification of homes and, in some big-cities, direct-dialing telephones (instead of going thru an operator.)

1SeventyZ · Post by **1SeventyZ** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:50 pm

I call mine the Skychicken.

doug8082a · Post by **doug8082a** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:54 pm

Foghorn Leghorn?

Dward · Post by **Dward** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:53 pm

Mine was named "Faith" by the previous owner when she flew it to Indiana from California on a 2400hr engine.

mrpibb · Post by **mrpibb** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:16 am

Mine is nicknamed Patrick, the happy go lucky starfish from Spongebob

1SeventyZ · Post by **1SeventyZ** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:54 am

doug8082a wrote:Foghorn Leghorn?

Yeah, not quite a Skyhawk or a Skylane, so....a Skychicken.

Coincidentally I also call Ford Thunderbirds "thunderchickens"