WHEE
Was that in Pullman?
GT

yep

I always thought I kinda recognized you!!
GOOD DAY
GT

hmm... so we met??? You the guy who's seat I took on that ifr flight into Lewiston in the 207?

whee wrote:Anyone have experience with a 180/185 with a third row (6 seats)? Is the rear bench big enough for kids? I assume the rear bench takes up the baggage area so extended baggage would be necessary. Would the CG range even allow for the use of the extended baggage with all the seats full (2 adults and 4 kids)?

Dad used to fly us around in one all the time, and then our family friend who bought the plane, up until we were "tweenagers". You can certainly fit six "people" in a 185, it's the legroom that becomes the constraint.

My rule of thumb would be this: however comfortable a person is climbing through that little rear hatch, is the same level of comfort they'll enjoy in that 3rd row of seats. If they don't fit through the hatch, they wont fit in the seats.

I think the last flight I took back there I would have been about 15 years old, and I was only comfortable sitting sideways, and that was a really short flight (10 minutes).

Whee, I started flying for Doug doing some FS work, We went partners on a 337, I had the ugliest M6 Maule to ever fly and a shiny little RV6.
Doug and I flew my Beech 18 to Kalifornia and brought the 337 and Skybolt back the end of March!
I think you were still there?
GT

Well, I tried to post pictures of the three rows of seats in an M7 with 5 adults aboard but failed.
How to get the jpeg pics from an email to a BCP post?
I am computer illiterate.
I fly planes.
The rear row can accommodate two children or one adult to 170lbs ie 6 and each of the three rows has its own entry door.

Is the M6 third row the same size as the M7 third row?

GT, I don't remember Doug having a 337 while I was there.

No 3rd row in a M6.
I flew there for the season the year before we got the 337.
GT

TCDS says the third row is an option for the M6-235 S/N 7474C and up.

It was an option on the early MX7-180, the M6-235 and 180, the early MXT7-180, but not so many were ordered so not so many out there. Occasionally an M5 has the option.
Bear in mind that the floor length is 6" longer in M7 thus more legroom and M7 rear seat/baggage area is 3.5" higher than the non M7 or MT7.
Did you get pictures.

Here are the pics from maules.com

I vote picture #3.

I guess I shouldda bought a Maule....

I deliver all Maules loaded like that. Are'nt Cessnas ? This pic was landing on the beach 100 miles down coast from PV Mexico.

maules.com wrote:I deliver all Maules loaded like that. Are'nt Cessnas ? This pic was landing on the beach 100 miles down coast from PV Mexico.

Hey Jeremy,
You must have ice running through your veins.........everybody else is dressed for the beach, and you have a scarf on!!

Haha. Great photo!

Brent

Sheepskin seatbelt cover scarf. Girls melted the ice. New Maule pilot concentrated on learning Maule controls.
I'd post my beach arrival if I knew how.

It looks like the girl in the third row is a petite little spinner

Anyone ever seen a pre 1961 C180 with a third row? The Cessna parts book lists them as an option for the E and later. I read that a bulk head was changed in 1960 which have more headroom in the back seat so maybe there isn't even enough room for passengers in a third row in a pre 1960 C180?

Yes, mid and later model 180s have a more headroom in the back. If it has 3 windows, it has a taller back.

Just found out that we're having a third child. I'm thinking Bearhawk with a fifth seat and a belly pod. If I buy a flying Bearhawk is it legal for me to make major mods like adding windows, third seat, belly pod, etc, on an experimental a/c that I didn't build myself?