#Cessna 185

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[thestonecuttersguild]

Shiny Skywagon. Oshkosh 2024

[malbecmusings]

You drive a station wagon?

That threw me for a second lol When I said wagon in the other post I was referring to the (Sky)Wagon.

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Cessna A185F leaving Renton Municipal Airport, WA

[rabbitcruiser]

Schwatka Lake, Whitehorse

Schwatka Lake is a reservoir created by the damming of the Yukon River in Whitehorse, Yukon, completed in 1958. The dam provides electrical power generation and is operated by the Yukon Energy Corporation. The White Horse Rapids, which gave the city its name, are now under the lake. The lake was named after Frederick Schwatka, a US Army Lieutenant who was first to explore the total length of the Yukon River.

A fish ladder has been constructed around the hydroelectric dam to allow the passage of Chinook salmon to their spawning grounds upstream of Whitehorse. The Chinook salmon that pass the dam have the longest freshwater migration route of any salmon, over 3,000 kilometres to the mouth of the Yukon River in the Bering Sea.

Whitehorse Water Aerodrome, a float plane base, is located on the lake. The lake has been the city's water supply for some years, but the city is now converting to relying entirely on aquifers, partly due to the threat of pollution from fuel spills and other activities by people in the watershed of the lake. Previously, there had been talk of moving the float plane base or the water supply to Fish Lake, which is impractically located to the west over a winding, steep road.

Source: Wikipedia

[specter-177]

Specter's Flying Year In Review 2023

Total Hours: 51.3

Total Flights: 43

Total Landings: 60

Total Miles Flown: 4397 NM

Longest Flight: 5.0 hrs/675.3 NM

KOSH - GA2 (Griffin, GA)

Planes Flown: 2

Planes Bought: 1

Internet Friends Flown: 1

[pirozhok-artist]

Meet Chloe, main OC.

She is Cessna-185 skywagon, painted in indigo and some art on her fuselage and wing.

(other shipping their OC's with canon characters so why couldn't I create a pair for this charismatic fighter?)

[nimbushobby]

Cessna 185 Skywagon

[rainbowriderjt]

Cessna 185 Alaska

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I wanted to try out a poll

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Cessna 185 Skywagon

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FSTC Flying School's comprehensive aviation training program includes ground classes for DGCA papers, as well as 185 hours of single-engine flying on either the Cessna 172 or Tecnam P2008.

[thestonecuttersguild]

Canadian 185 on floats. TONS of Canadian tail numbers this year.

Oshkosh 2024

[malbecmusings]

Departure Day

Hey Siri, play North To Alaska by Johnny Horton.

July 24, 2023: We left the desert for Alaska's Last Frontier this morning. Flying with a group of friends, the plan is to cover roughly 6,500 miles over the next 3 weeks. I'm not sure if I'll post all or some of my travel notes here or not, but I'll post updates and thoughts as time and a connection allows. I didn't take time to load the queue so this might be all that gets posted until we get home.

Nowhere is it hotter, or colder, than your local airfield. The thermometer hanging on the wall confirmed what the beads of sweat that fell off my face already told me. It was stupid hot at 5:49AM. 96° in the shade. Gooood fuck morning.

Our steed for this trip is Isa's sister from another mister, 1 Tango Sierra, a Cessna 185 we bought to explore off the grid locations that would be hard or next to impossible to access with anything else. She's a few years older than the last 185 Cessna produced in 1985. Thanks to the tender loving care taken by the former owners and significant upgrades we've made, she still turns heads everywhere we go. With continued regular maintenance she could easily still be airworthy long after we're not.

What took weeks to itemize, organize, and pack into totes in the garage was packed into the back of 1TS Tetris-style and secured in what felt like minutes. The Boy Scout def earned his organization and preparedness merit badges for this trip. Bags and totes loaded and the walk around complete, we pulled 1TS out and brought her to life. Like all Continental engines she doesn't have an inside voice. Instead she bellowed her distinctive, unapologetic good morning across the east ramp. A sound that never fails to put a smile on my face.

Friends flying 3CM, a spit polished C180 based in Phoenix, and 7NZ, an Aviat Husky based in Texas that flew in a couple of days ago, made the first leg to the remote hamlet of Winnemucca Nevada with us. Leaving PHX was a little bumpy until we got above 8,500' where the air was like glass. The tradeoff to being that high is, despite what the instruments say, it feels like you're standing still. We took turns monitoring the panel and the sky while the other rested or read. By a little after 11 we had covered nearly 600 miles and were entering the pattern for WMC.

The rest of 'the squadron' for this trip, 721, another C185, and 66E, an experimental, both based in Southern California, were already on the ground when we arrived. After refueling and stretching our legs for a few minutes, we departed north toward Bellingham. The ride for the second leg was a little more turbulent than from PHX to WMC but not terrible. We also had a dry ride until eastern, central Washington where, surprise, surprise, we ran into light rain that turned into not so light rain almost all the way into Bellingham.

By the time we were tied up on the ramp at BLI we were starving, and after nearly 10 hours of being still, felt like running to the hotel instead of riding in the 4 Ubers we needed to haul us to it. Except for two nights in transit and nights in Juneau, Fairbanks, Anchorage, and Seward we'll be "roughing it" on a gravel bar or an unimproved backcountry strip rather than staying in a hotel. What did I sign up for again? After 9 hours in the air today covering 1,236 miles I'm too tired to think about it.

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Cessna 185 floatplane flying over the Alaska Range with Mt. McKinley in the background.

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Maryland man survives emergency landing in seaplane, ends up in cornfield

A Leonardtown man and a pilot from Florida survived an unexpected emergency landing after their seaplane stalled in the air on Thursday, according to the Maryland State Police, according to CBS. Charles O’Brien IV, 335, of Leonardtown, Md., and Anthony Copozzi, 63, of Venice, Florida, were traveling in a Cessna 185 equipped with pontoons when they had to make an emergency landing in St. Mary’s…