Cessna 206 vs Cessna 207

[Say Again Over]

it would do anything the 206 would

Except climb out of the Grand Canyon airport, although I love the T206 (truck), the T210 was one hell of an airplane, have had that airplane at very high altitudes with supplental O's, stable and had a descent a/p.

 

[Lead Sled]

Except climb out of the Grand Canyon airport, although I love the T206 (truck), the T210 was one hell of an airplane, have had that airplane at very high altitudes with supplental O's, stable and had a descent a/p.

I stand by my statement that a 207 would do anything that a 206 would - including climb out of the Grand Canyon airport. My first flying job was flying 207s out of LAS and VGT to the canyon and back. I did it for 3 years and I've got several hundred (close to 1000 hrs each) in both the 207 (normally aspirated) and 206 (turbo and non-turbo) flying out of the GCN airport and never had any problems and we seldom flew Asians. (Mostly lard arse Americans and Germans ) About the only concession we made was we carried one-way fuel. I preferred the 207 as a canyon airplane because back then, we got paid by the seat and the 207 had an extra seat so I made extra $$$. Loaded to the same weights, I really couldn't tell too much difference between them. The 206 is a great utility airplane. The 207 was a niche airplane and if you needed the extra seat it was tough to beat.

LS

 

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Flew for Air Vegas (Green weenie T207) and Omni Airlines, CE-206.

 

[Lead Sled]

Flew for Air Vegas (Green weenie T207) and Omni Airlines, CE-206.

You and I may have been in Las Vegas at the same time - was was there from 1977 through 1979. I got my start flying the Grand Canyon in a C207 (N1551U) that I leased from Chuck Horne and Larry Seglecow (spelling?) I flew overflow for Omni, Air Vegas, and Scenic. Later on, I took a position with Omni Airlines (Kay and Ray Snider) and later on with Air Vegas (Sid Petty and "Bogie") While at Omni I flew their C206 (N3910G) - which if I remember correctly was leased from Air Vegas; their ratty Mooney M20C (6511U); and all three of their C411s. The only Omni airplane that I didn't fly was their Twin Commanche.

When I worked for Air Vegas I also flew the Green Weenie (N91038/Air Vegas 16 if I remember correctly); the C336 fixed gear Skymaster (N3854U); and their 206 (N3927G). It's been 30 years, but I didn't think that their 208 was turbocharged and not listed as a T208 on my logbook.

When were you down there?

LS

 

[SSDD]

Flew for Hughes Aviation in Las Vegas in the late 70's. They were a full Cessna dealership, and Cessna did market a Turbo 207 with an extra seat in the back and called it the C208. Hard to keep it in CG unless you had real heavies up front and children in the last two seats.

Also did the Canyon thing in the late 70's and early 80's...


51U
72H
80H

Can't remember the full N numbers and that was too many logbooks ago to dig up.

 

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Was 51U a red 207?

 

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SSDD, you didn't fly the metro for Sid did you?

 

[SSDD]

Yeah, 51U was a red 207. No, I never worked for Sid. I was already gone by the time he got the Metros. When I was there all he had was Chieftains.

 

[mcjohn]

Doh...urrrmm...:nuts:.....OVER.

 

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When I worked for Air Vegas I also flew the Green Weenie (N91038/Air Vegas 16 if I remember correctly); the C336 fixed gear Skymaster (N3854U); and their 206 (N3927G). It's been 30 years, but I didn't think that their 208 was turbocharged and not listed as a T208 on my logbook

I'm not positive but I think I had an engine failure in 27G, wasn't that Jerry Garrison's airplane? Is this Paul?