11-pound transponder, only $19,000

[Pilawt]

1965 list price $2,400 -- equivalent to $19,000 in today's money.

 

[kgruber]

My 135 King Air BE-A90 had one of those........plus one of these:

Dual transponders in 1967!

 

[bnt83]

Note: these require a separate control head on top of the remote units.

 

[Pilawt]

In 1971 the code "7500" didn't mean what it does today ... but this is still funny. $399 in 1971, by the way, would be about $2,470 today.

(I have a vague recollection that in the early days '3100' was the hijack code. Anybody remember?)

 

[dmcummins]

I had a early narco, not sure of the age, but it was serviced in 71. It was about the size as the one above and then had a normal looking control head. I gained several #s of useful load when it crapped out and I had a garmin 327 installed.

The guys at Sarasota Avionics had never seen one like it.

 

[Pilawt]

I had a early narco, not sure of the age, but it was serviced in 71. It was about the size as the one above and then had a normal looking control head. I gained several #s of useful load when it crapped out and I had a garmin 327 installed.

The guys at Sarasota Avionics had never seen one like it.

Possibly a UAT-1? That was the only transponder Narco sold in 1968. 7.6 pounds, $1,975 -- roughly $14,000 in today's money.

 

[dmcummins]

It looked something like that, but I was thinking AT-5. Next time I’m at the hangar I’ll take a look. I never tossed it out.

There was definatly a sticker on it that said it was seviced in 71, I remember that much.

 

[dmcummins]

I looked it up, AT-5A. I replaced it in 2016. I gained 3.4lbs useful.

 

[dmcummins]

For sale, cheap.

 

[flyingcheesehead]

What did a transponder even get you in 1965? Mode C rings didn't appear until 1988-ish...

 

[benyflyguy]

1965 list price $2,400 -- equivalent to $19,000 in today's money.

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TRhink of the time it took to build one of those... a lot of that work was done manually!!

 

[Pilawt]

What did a transponder even get you in 1965? Mode C rings didn't appear until 1988-ish...

You were one of the cool kids and got deluxe handling from ATC. You didn’t hear, “Bugsmasher 123, for radar identification turn left heading 120.”

 

[weilke]

Funny how many avionics manufacturers were around back in those days.

 

[Pilawt]

I looked it up, AT-5A. I replaced it in 2016. I gained 3.4lbs useful.

1968:


$1,295 ($9,325 in today's money), 7.0 pounds, two units.

 

[Velocity173]

APX-100. Archaic. Think it was around 15 lbs or so.

 

[blueskyMD]

So flying has always been an expensive thing. Lets stop complaining and enjoy what we do