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An interesting article in Kitplanes I just read today...a nice story about two strangers meeting at some airshow and after some chit chat found out that one had flown the other's plane some time before.

Got me to thinking.... I have a list of the aircraft I've flown. Mostly old ones, so likely have changed hands a few times, and rentals so a lot of pilots have flown them... I wonder if any of you are now the proud owners...or have otherwise had the opportunity to fly any of them....
sort of a "degrees of Kevin Bacon" thing I suppose....
This came up about one of the planes on my list a couple years ago.... maybe it won't, but I just thought it may turn out to be interesting.

Many of you probably have a list too long to post or even know, but post yours if you want!

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Brad W said:
An interesting article in Kitplanes I just read today...a nice story about two strangers meeting at some airshow and after some chit chat found out that one had flown the other's plane some time before.

Got me to thinking.... I have a list of the aircraft I've flown. Mostly old ones, so likely have changed hands a few times, and rentals so a lot of pilots have flown them... I wonder if any of you are now the proud owners...or have otherwise had the opportunity to fly any of them....
sort of a "degrees of Kevin Bacon" thing I suppose....
This came up about one of the planes on my list a couple years ago.... maybe it won't, but I just thought it may turn out to be interesting.

Many of you probably have a list too long to post or even know, but post yours if you want!

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This could be a fun thread! I haven’t flown it, but I recognize N54448. It used to be a trainer at Superior Flight School in Kennesaw. Where did you fly it?
 
This is fun. I see a172 that is one S/N off of one in which I did a bunch of training for my private and IR. Geek out!
 
I haven't flown all that many planes. Looks like 14. None on your list.
 
Meh....I never thought to figure this out. Is it really that important? o_O
 
I’ll bite. Nothing on your list but I’m more middle based. Perhaps some of the Midwest folks have flown these.

I have 25 tail numbers, in order by most type hours:

C172
- N1242U
- N12442
- N12657
- N1590V
- N172SS
- N20095
- N20437
- N2122M
- N2441D
- N4397Q
- N5367H
- N738HA
- N7669G
- N8398L
- N9622Q
P28R
- N8414C
- N5094S
DA40 - N171SF
P32R - N549WS
S22T - N910SG
DA42 - N985JA
J3
- N32530
- N41301
C170 - N4165V
C182 - N304DB
 
RyanB said:
This could be a fun thread! I haven’t flown it, but I recognize N54448. It used to be a trainer at Superior Flight School in Kennesaw. Where did you fly it?
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Rented from a school at RYY back in April 1999, I don't recognize the name Superior Flight School...but don't recall what it was called then. Looks like I only flew it one time. Mostly rented a pair of 172RG's they had....

Checkout_my_Six said:
Meh....I never thought to figure this out. Is it really that important? o_O
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No

Pilawt said:
I have flown two of the airplanes on your list, N704XA and N12573. At the time (late 1990s) both were rentals at Pearson Field, Vancouver WA.
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Cool, and thanks for the pictures! That's where I rented them...was there on business trips and went up for some of my more memorable flights in them. Only one dual fun flight each
N12573 was May 1996, a nice lap around Mt St Helens on an unusually clear and beautiful day.
N704XA was April 1997, a nice flight up the Columbia River Gorge up to about the dam if I recall correctly.
 
RyanB said:
This could be a fun thread! I haven’t flown it, but I recognize N54448. It used to be a trainer at Superior Flight School in Kennesaw. Where did you fly it?
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Brad W said:
Rented from a school at RYY back in April 1999, I don't recognize the name Superior Flight School...but don't recall what it was called then. Looks like I only flew it one time. Mostly rented a pair of 172RG's they had....
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In 1999, you would have been renting from Atlanta Northside. N54448 moved to the Superior fleet when they opened in 2021 along with some of the others on your list. I have a lot of time in that airplane. I also flew the two 172RG’s and N9139C, the 182RG. I didn’t check them all, but i may have a couple of others on your list.

N54448 was based at RYY since brand new in 1981, but finally left the field when it was sold two years ago.
 
Dave Theisen said:
In 1999, you would have been renting from Atlanta Northside. N54448 moved to the Superior fleet when they opened in 2021 along with some of the others on your list. I have a lot of time in that airplane. I also flew the two 172RG’s and N9139C, the 182RG. I didn’t check them all, but i may have a couple of others on your list.

N54448 was based at RYY since brand new in 1981, but finally left the field when it was sold two years ago.
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YES, Northside Aviation! Thank you!!
I was only there in Kennesaw about 10 months, but was taking that time to knock the rust off after a rusty period by working towards my Commercial rating. Sadly never finished it because my job situation had me relocate again back down to Florida....and I got rusty again. Anyway, my last flight out of RYY was a dual in that 182RG.... kind of a farewell flight so she (my CFII) suggested we do a approach for the "option" at Dobbins. We had the wheels sucked up and the throttle wide open...that 'low pass' felt fast to us but it was not lost on me that to the folks in the tower we probably looked like we were walking.....
I wish that I'd have kept some of the receipts or information from Northside.... I've tried to remember what I paid for those rentals several times, because rental rates in my new city were much higher...seemed like something changed in the industry about that time and rental rates started outpacing inflation big time....

Salty said:
https://myflightbook.com/
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I've seen how that database shares aircraft info but I have not seen where it lets you connect with other pilots that have flown it, how many others, etc...
So yeah, unless I missed something about myflightbook, I think your database would be cool, @SixPapaCharlie !
A few years back I spent some time over several evenings while watching TV or whatever, entering my logbook into a spreadsheet so that I could get all these meaningless but interesting statistics and knowledge. It was great for reminiscing! Later I learned about myflightbook and entered my stuff there. It was interesting when the database kicked back some info I didn't have about some of the aircraft, photos and such....
 
I doubt I'll find any overlap with the few I've flown.
N512PG Aeronca 7AC
N79501 Cessna C-172 H
N5380N Cessna C-182 Q
N15321 Piper PA-28-140
N459FL Piper PA-28-140
N5533F Piper PA-28-140
N6842J Piper PA-28-140
N9TA Piper PA-28-140
N698FL Piper PA-28-160
N55826 Piper PA-28-180
N48ZG Vans RV-12
N980KM Vans RV-12
 
kaiser said:
Does it connect socially to other pilots (or better yet, PoA) who have flown that same airframe? Like a Facebook friend request?
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You can’t contact or see the other pilots as far as I can tell.
 
kaiser said:
Does it connect socially to other pilots (or better yet, PoA) who have flown that same airframe? Like a Facebook friend request?
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It does tell you how many other users have used that aircraft and the total number of flights, but no user data is shared.

I have 52 different tails in my logbook. A while back while bored I decided to look some of them up to see what ever became of them. I was surprised to see several were crashed, damaged by storms, or exported from the US.
 
I understand all the reasons why, but myflightbook says one other user has flown my plane and I would just love to send them a message about it. It was owned by the State of Illinois for most of it's life and it'd be cool to know its story. They took incredible care of it.

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kaiser said:
I’ll bite. Nothing on your list but I’m more middle based. Perhaps some of the Midwest folks have flown these.

I have 25 tail numbers, in order by most type hours:

C172
- N1242U
- N12442
- N12657
- N1590V
- N172SS
- N20095
- N20437
- N2122M
- N2441D
- N4397Q
- N5367H
- N738HA
- N7669G
- N8398L
- N9622Q
P28R
- N8414C
- N5094S
DA40 - N171SF
P32R - N549WS
S22T - N910SG
DA42 - N985JA
J3
- N32530
- N41301
C170 - N4165V
C182 - N304DB
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Highlighted ones I have some time in.
Also,
2553Y- PA28-161 The one that I got my PPL in
6026E- Bo K35
53AF- 172
8059R- Pa28-181
 
charheep said:
Highlighted ones I have some time in.
Also,
2553Y- PA28-161 The one that I got my PPL in
6026E- Bo K35
53AF- 172
8059R- Pa28-181
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Awesome! So with time in 8HA and 14C, we've run in very similar circles as these are both club planes.
 
ServoB17 said:
I understand all the reasons why, but myflightbook says one other user has flown my plane and I would just love to send them a message about it. It was owned by the State of Illinois for most of it's life and it'd be cool to know its story. They took incredible care of it.

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I think you mean my taxes took incredible care of it. ;)
 
My point about My Flight Book is there is already a large crowd sourced database. Whether Eric would write us something to use it or not would be up to him.
 
midwestpa24 said:
It does tell you how many other users have used that aircraft and the total number of flights, but no user data is shared.

I have 52 different tails in my logbook. A while back while bored I decided to look some of them up to see what ever became of them. I was surprised to see several were crashed, damaged by storms, or exported from the US.
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not exactly...I found one hole in this idea....
N2260P was an Apache PA-23-150 when I flew it.
When I entered it into myflightbook, it came up with larger engines...apparently somebody put larger engines in it at some point...180HP it seems....so the myflightbook developer set up a second aircraft with the same tail number for me. The N2260P in my flightbook database has me as the only user, but I know that's not the case for the airframe....
I've often thought that I would love to have that old aircraft but with much larger engines. Large, stable, and comfortable airframe for sure. I sure do hope they were able to do it while keeping the round nose and round tail. I don't like the look of the geronimo STC. That sure would be a nice plane now, if they fixed the leaking fuel bladders and the door! (and spruced up the interior/avionics)
 
Here is my list.

N1115U C-172 M
N1954T PA-28
N35683 C-172 I
N40ER C-172 N
N4141L C-172 G
N46203 C-172 I
N469CT CT-SW
N5208W PA-28-150
N5400J C-172 N
N5414L AA-5
N5452D C-172 N
N5904U PA-28-140
N6315M C-152U
N6585L C-152
N68204 C-172 N
N7524R PA-28-140
N93124 C-152
 
NealRomeoGolf said:
My point about My Flight Book is there is already a large crowd sourced database. Whether Eric would write us something to use it or not would be up to him.
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Could be easily done with an opt in check mark.
 
Someone needs to set this up as a website to upload all the N numbers than spit out a list of ones others have flown that you have flown. And allow updates
 
Pilawt said:
I have flown two of the airplanes on your list, N704XA and N12573. At the time (late 1990s) both were rentals at Pearson Field, Vancouver WA.
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Jeff
Do you by chance have any idea what year N12573 was manufactured?
It really does not matter, just that I hate having holes in my data.... interesting that the FAA database leaves that out of so many...and I couldn't find it in another database I'd found online either.
 
My past tail numbers include:

N2172W - currently identifies as a 182 but was a 172 when I flew it. Maybe the 172 crashed
N25053 - a 152 that is now registered in Florida (was in Texas when I flew it)
N2667Q - a cherokee 140 that I don't think is active anymore
N28024 - Boeing Stearman owned by Tim Preston in Winter Haven
N6595H - Piper Cub - also Tim's
N343AT - a 172 that seems to have been exported to Denmark
N44960 - a Piper Archer that I did most of my training in the second time around; my instructor closed shop 7 years ago and this plane seems to have ended up in New York
N561SP - a 172SP that got repossessed from the flight school at KADS; it is now registered in Maryland
N576SP - another 172SP that got repossessed from the flight school; it is now registered in San Diego, CA
N618SP - these SP's really got the flight school bankrupt :) ; it is now registered in Iowa; maybe I should go find it; I think I had 1 flight in it I mainly stuck to....
N9635H - the 172 I mostly used during my first round of training; it was the cheapest on the flight line; it is now in Arizona
N84699 - my first owned airplane; a 1982 Piper Archer that now belongs to a flying club in Kentucky
 
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Where does it tell you how / how many have flown your plane? I don't see it.
 
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Brad W said:
Anyway, my last flight out of RYY was a dual in that 182RG.... kind of a farewell flight so she (my CFII) suggested we do a approach for the "option" at Dobbins. We had the wheels sucked up and the throttle wide open...that 'low pass' felt fast to us but it was not lost on me that to the folks in the tower we probably looked like we were walking.....
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Wow - this comment just brought back a flood of memories. Early/Mid 80’s, flying with my Dad out of RYY. No intercom in those days. He’s descending for what I thought was landing on 9 at RYY, but the mountain was on the wrong side of the plane. What the heck is going on? As we cross the threshold, two F-15’s were holding short. Dad puts the throttle to the wall and climbs out and heads over to RYY with me wondering if the ‘old guy’ (remember when early 40’s seemed old?) was losing his mind. After we land, he explained that they would give you the approach for option if not too busy. Have not thought about that in forever. Thanks for bringing it back!
 
Brad W said:
Jeff
Do you by chance have any idea what year N12573 was manufactured?
It really does not matter, just that I hate having holes in my data.... interesting that the FAA database leaves that out of so many...and I couldn't find it in another database I'd found online either.
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By serial number it's right in the middle of the 1974 model year.
 
One time I sat in the pilot seat of a DC-6 that was previously owned and flown by Howard Hughes.
 
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