1959 Cessna -- 2002 Oshkosh award winner. Asking $70,000
180 HP Lycoming, 710 since new, constant speed prop, STOL, gap seals, larger fuel tanks,
new paint & glass, clean mostly original interior, modern gyros, Clevelands, amazing avionics, etc.
For the past month, I've been flying it nearly every day, practicing under the hood. It's stable,
very easy to fly on instruments, even in turbulence, and the avionics do everything you want!
Ed Wischmeyer, 928 533-9351 edwisch@alum.mit.edu. Now based at Cedar Rapids, IA.
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Flies like a baby 182 but with lighter controls and less fuel burn
This beautiful straight-tail Cessna has everything you'd want:
Engine and Airframe |
Avionics & Cabin |
Trips Made |
| 180 HP Lycoming, about 600 hours since new |
IFR GPS with moving map |
Seattle - Oshkosh, 3 x |
| Constant speed prop |
UPSAT (nee Garmin) avionics |
Arizona to Michigan, 3 x |
| Horton STOL kit |
Comm tuning from GPS database |
Arizona to Houston, 2x |
| Gap seals |
Automatic Morse ID on VOR/ILS |
And lots of short, fun hops! |
| Cleveland wheels and brakes |
Four place autosquelch intercomm |
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| 52 gallon fuel tanks, 10 more than a 172's |
Modern gyros, custom panel |
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| New paint, and it looks that good in the flesh! |
Heated pitot tube |
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| New glass, including one piece windshield |
Shoulder harnesses |
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Opening windows on both sides |
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Very clean, mostly original interior |
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The "Bumblebee" in its new paint, the day we picked it up from the paint shop. This is much the same as the original factory paint scheme if you take the yellow to bare metal. Bob Fitts of Independence, Oregon, did the paint for us. Thanks, Bob! This won us an Oshkosh award in the Contemporary class, "Outstanding Cessna 170/172/175," in 2002. |
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Note the STOL kit fences on top of the wing. Not visible are the gap seals for the flaps and ailerons. At 6,500', with less than full power, we've recorded a two way average of 117 kt. With the STOL kit, a comfortable takeoff is 20 degrees of flaps, a sea level ground roll of about 600 feet, liftoff and climb at 65 MPH. Density altitude is much less noticeable because of the extra takeoff thrust generated by the constant speed prop. Stalls are benign. Fuel tanks are 52 gallons (48 usable), ten gallons more than a C172, and this imakes a big difference with a 180HP engine. |
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Here's the panel, with the left side custom made to make the instruments more readable, especially at night. The UPSAT radios include an IFR GPS/COMM and a NAV/COMM. The GPS includes a moving map, handy for avoiding airspaces. Once you access an airport on the GPS, you can get all its frequencies on the comms. Each comm can have an active frequency plus a frequency that's monitored when there is no action on the active frequency. Also, the VOR/ILS can be tuned to one frequency while getting cross bearings from another VOR simultaneously. And, it will check the Morse ID and display it. The transponder has pushbutton setting of the code, much easier and faster than knobs, plus it has timers for flight time, and counting up and down. And, the audio panel has fully automatic squelch on the 4 place intercomm. |
And what would it cost to duplicate what you'll get? These numbers are probably way conservative:
$25,000 Cessna 175 airframe
$5,000 First annual to fix things (we spent half again this much, even though the plane had a fresh annual when we bought it).
$30,000+ 180 HP Lycoming, constant speed prop, prop governor, motor mount, STC
$5,000+ STOL kit, gap seals, and installation
$10,000 Paint
$30,000 Avionics, gyros, and new panel
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one piece windshield, new glass all around, Cleveland wheels and brakes, shoulder harness, heated pitot tube
$100,000+ total cost to duplicate
We've got over $75,000 in ours -- at prices seven years ago -- and need to get most of that out. You'll enjoy this plane, just as we have!
Ed Wischmeyer, 928 533-9351 edwisch@alum.mit.edu
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