Obscure planes you've flown?

[A Squared]

Do they have any left?

Yeah, I know a guy who owns one. I believe that it is the same airplane that "ClearRight" saw in Dillingham. I first saw that airplane in Pilot Point, Alaska about 15 years ago. This same guy also owns a Found Centinnial.

Other obscure aircraft I've flown:

Gavilan 358 (8 place recip utility aircraft made in Columbia)

Found Bushhawk (updated brother of the above mentioned Centennial)

Gippsland AirVan (8 place recip utility aircraft made in Australia)

 

[crash-proof]

I remember anothe one...

I flew (as pax) on the EAA Ford Trimotor at Sun n Fun. And my camcorder decided to go south just before I got onboard.

That was unforgetable. Believe it or not, they have a newer version of the trimotor called the bushmaster, I think two are left flying. Beautiful bird, I would give my left nut to own one.

http://irish5string.homestead.com/page3.html

 

[A Squared]

I remember anothe one...

Believe it or not, they have a newer version of the trimotor called the bushmaster, I think two are left flying.

Yep, a guy who is a frequent flyer on our jumpseat used to fly a Bushmaster out of Bethel, Alaska in the 1970's

 

[VNugget]

Once I was $400 away from getting a ride on the Collings Foundation B-17......

 

[skypine69]

Tiger Moth....fun plane, low and slow!

 

[empenage]

B-25...Miss Hap. It shook so much the video came out all messed up. The brakes suck on the B-25 but talk about smoke and noise! Very small cockpit.

The Brezy comes to mind too. Gotta love the QB's.

 

[Jet_Dreamer]

wasted state- multi pass!

 

[Kingairrick]

From the logbook...

3.3 hours in a Nomad N24A, basically an austrailian shorts 330 with alison 250 jetranger engines turned sidways. Still a few in SRQ at Dolphin

 

[avbug]

PB4Y-2...4, left none flying.

Right now possibly one of the most useless type ratings one can have.

 

[Kingairrick]

I thought the Hawker 1000 was the most usless type rating. I stand corrected.

 

[TurboS7]

I never got to fly the PBY but I got to ride in the jumpseat from Tipishicocha, Peru to Yarinacocha, Peru. Pretty neat...does that count?

 

[jsoceanlord]

british trislander

all the v-speeds are wither 60 or 80 mph

and a helio courier STOL plane - it can go up almost like an elevator

 

[uavchaser]

I fly from a box

M/RQ-1 Predator, MQ-9 Predator B(-10 Garret), I-Gnat

 

[Rick1128]

Try a DC-3 on Floats, only ten build by Edo during WW2. Currently one flying, but was converted from Edo engineering drawings.

A DC6 swing-tail. Only two built, dot to fly both. Currently, I believe they are both in Alaska with NAC.

DC7C at the time only 1 of about 10 flying world wide. I believe there are only 2 flying as fire bombers.

C69/L-049 one of the early Connies, an early military transport version. None flying anymore.

 

[Draginass]

PT-19 Big, Heavy, Crude, Wonderful

 

[crash-proof]

Aha, remember another one...

Got a ride in a WACO 4-seater cabin biplane. I think it was the UIC, had a continental radial, the thing shook like he11, but man what fun!!!!!! Right over the beach too...

http://www.nasm.si.edu/nasm/aero/aircraft/wacouic.htm

 

[surplus1]

DC-6 Swing tail - interesting STC

YC-125 - Very Noisy, limited use, STOL tri-motor

DO-28 - Light twin high-wing STOL w/conventional gear. Weird fuel system.

 

[bobbysamd]

C-175

Our Cessna 175 has been in my family since 1966. Many people have never even heard of one. Straight-tailed, no back window, 175 hp . . . .

We had an instructor at Riddle who owned a 175. I checked out in it. It had the geared engine, too.

This doesn't count, but I got to sit in the left seat of the CAF B-29 on the ground. This was a good sixteen years ago. The B-29 and the CAF B-24 Liberator (I think it was actually a C-87 Liberator Express) came to Wiley Post for an airshow or something, and I covered their arrival for news.

 

[troyzohner]

i once flew the obscure plane called a cessna 172

 

[bugchaser]

Avbug, you may be the only one who will know what I am talking about. We once had an S2C Snow with a D model tail group and canopy, Ag-Cat spring main and tail gear, and a BT-13 pressure cowling surrounding a 985. The thing actually flew pretty nice. Made a pretty good Boll Weavil airplane.

 

[A Squared]

A DC6 swing-tail. Only two built, dot to fly both. Currently, I believe they are both in Alaska with NAC.

One was wrecked about 2 years ago on the North Slope and the other is timed out and not flying. The tail section from the wreck is sitting in NAC's yard in FAI. I heard that NAC now owns the STC for the DC-6 swingtail. I think that it was originally engineered by SAS

 

[surplus1]

A DC6 swing-tail. Only two built, dot to fly both. Currently, I believe they are both in Alaska with NAC.

Rick,

Who'd you fly the swing tail for?

 

[TurboS7]

Greetings from Keflivik, Iceland. I am here on a 40 hour layover, everyone else went out but I stayed behind to study for a checkride in a couple of days. So much for the studying................waiting for the restraunt to open so I can go get my monk fish. Another two airplanes I have ridden in are the C-119 and the Ball Brothers C-82. They are cool airplanes especially with the J-83 on top. Nothing like having your own little piston C-130. Got an 18 hour ride home tomorrow. Seeya.

 

[pilotyip]

how about the B-17

B-17G with working auto throttle system

 

[njcapt]

Got typed in the BAe ATP flying for doofuss (United Feeder Service) in Chicago. Only 55 (I think) of them built with just 54 of them delivered to customers. The last one was the prototype Jetstream 60, which was only demoed before being parked at Prestwick.

By the way, it's not s Saab 340 on steroids, it's a Hawker Siddeley 748 on steroids and mescaline.

 

[Typhoon1244]

By the way, [the BAe ATP is] not a Saab 340 on steroids, it's a Hawker Siddeley 748 on steroids and mescaline.

I once heard an instructor say "they called it the JetStream 61...as if they were fooling anybody."

A Saab 340 on steroids would be a Saab 2000...just as a SR-71 on qualudes would be a Brasilia.

 

[RightBettor]

"Breezy"... like sitting on top of a high-dive board, on a bar stool, with a stick and rudder pedals in front of you. Very weird to land as you have no forward reference point besides your feet! Fun though!!

 

[LR25]

ATL-98 Carviar.

Converted DC-4 for hualing cars. (Polish 747).

Fuji, Basically a T-34 with a 5 place cabin.

 

[dh82dvr]

I flew a Jabiru ST In Australia. Composite airframe designed and built in Bundagerg, Australia. @ place side by side. It looked like the the interior components were put in a box shaken up and tossed in. Where it landed was were it was attached. I centre stick and a throttle under each seat. Not bad to fly once you got the hang of it. The original 54 hp engine wasn't really cut out for flying training though.

 

[crash-proof]

ATL-98 Carviar.

Converted DC-4 for hualing cars. (Polish 747).

Fuji, Basically a T-34 with a 5 place cabin.

That Fuji thing, does it fly pretty good? As I recall it has a 340hp geared Lycs, so i bet it has good climbing power. (gas guzzler too!)


I have a thing for odd planes, if i had the $$$ i'd have the wierdest collection out there of em all.

One plane that comes to mind is the Piaggio Portofino, would loved to own that thing!!!
http://www.p166.com