If they only knew

[Flying_Nun]

“The pilot of a more than 60-year-old plane successfully landed the vintage aircraft onto a southern Illinois highway’s median”

https://www.wave3.com/2021/01/15/pilot-makes-emergency-landing-illinois-highways-median/


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[timrb]

If they only knew what?

Tim

 

[L.C. Gray]

Vintage... just doesn't have the same meaning with planes as it does with cars, boats, etc...

I call mine a classic because its a first year model that changed a lot from it's early version to become its more modern version, but even at it being 66 years old I don't see it as vintage...

 

[NealRomeoGolf]

I don't personally know the pilot but he's well known around here. He is based out of the airport to the north of me and I'm pretty sure he now owns the small training outfit that is at our airport.

 

[455 Bravo Uniform]

The first Cirrus will become a Classic this year, and an antique in 5 years.

 

[Wagondriver]

Cirrus and classic do not belong in the same sentence!

 

[strangebird]

I don't personally know the pilot but he's well known around here. He is based out of the airport to the north of me and I'm pretty sure he now owns the small training outfit that is at our airport.

Isn't the pilot an airplane broker, used to be out of Peoria., ?

 

[NealRomeoGolf]

Isn't the pilot an airplane broker, used to be out of Peoria., ?

Yes. It is out of Lacon which is just north of Peoria.

 

[bflynn]

I dunno - I think a ‘58 Cessna 175 deserves the term vintage. It might have been well cared for, but the emergency landing suggests otherwise.