There is a picture of me, about 5 years old with a sippy cup next to dad's cutlass with that EXACT paint job
Do you have it?! Would love to see it. I would have loved updated paint, but the classic look is okay too, a straight airframe is more important, and this original paint is actually in pretty good condition being in that dry climate and always hangared. I was showing my youngest daughter our "paint schemes we like" folder of pictures, and she said "yeah, but that classic brown and orange is awesome... maybe you could do the modern scheme with the classic colors..." Hmm. I haven't seen anybody do that! Interesting idea.
Beautiful plane. Congrats!
Thanks Jordan!
Very cool plane! Where will it be based, so I can keep an eye out for it?
You're exactly right about how the Cessna RGs look when they are retracting, but I do think they look great when they get up.
Eventually (maybe even intially, if I can find space) at KFTW Fort Worth Meacham (10 minutes from my house). Hangar space (shared or individual) is at a premium in the DFW metroplex--long waiting lists at the major airports. That said, KFTW has plans to build 180 new city-owned T-hangars, but that will be several years away. I'm on several waiting lists there already. KDTO might be an option; I was on their waiting list before, and an individual T-hangar opened up reasonably quick through Nebrig (several months, but less than a year). Hicks (T67) or NW Regional (52F) are also options. I haven't yet looked at Spinks (KFWS) or Grand Prairie (KGPM), but I did get an offer through Angel Flight's new home airport, Dallas Executive (Redbird-KRBD) that they will make room for me in a shared hangar there if I can't find any other place before 2/16. So at least she'll be under cover!
Thanks!
Troy, congrats! I really like the look of the 182 retracts, very pretty and clean. Very nice choice of a ride.
Combines those nice qualities of all 182s with "get up and go fast(er) and high(er)" for the longer trips.
Nicely done, friend! I cannot wait to ride in her.
Thanks Spike! And you will. In fact, you might have to be the first one other than us to see it (returning the favor, as you did with your Bonanza, my friend!).
Very nice. Living the dream.
Finally! ;-) My nightmare the past few years has been the rental market. Drove me to insanity. And buying my own.
We're excited! We do have plans for upgrades (paint and avionics) over the next few years. I have had reserved for some time an N-number, for just this day (N855WH), a tribute to my step-grandfather, who is no longer with us, but the "WH" works for my last name too.
Eventually she'll get some updated radios, an Aspen (or whatever is around at the time that makes sense) and an autopilot upgrade (System 55X or something similar--maybe Garmin will have something like the
Avidyne DFC90 by that time).
I've sometimes had to be the luggage nazzi, "No, still too heavy, take our more stuff".
