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A Fascinating Oddball: The Kadey-170 Homebuilt

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A Fascinating Oddball: The Kadey-170 Homebuilt

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I was Googling for "Edo 2425 floats" and this came up. What is that aircraft? I'm always curious to inventory other 4-seat experimentals so I dug deeper. It turns out that it's a Canadian homebuilt amalgam of a Cessna 170/172 with a steel fabric-covered fuselage. Here's the website where the owner (I assume) describes it.

http://www.ranss7.com/pipcom/KADEY.htm

Notables:

  • Fabric covered steel tube fuselage same dimensions as 170/172
  • 170B wings with STOL kit and large manual flaps
  • Metal wing tanks (35 gallons, fuel gauges are mechanical with indicators in the ends of the tanks visible form the cockpit).
  • The fuel selector is Cessna but mounted on the back of the firewall with handle on the lower instrument panel beside trim wheel.
  • All control surfaces are metal.
  • 180 gear, Cleveland brakes, Scott tail wheel
  • 3 or 4 seats, huge baggage area, 6’ flat floor for camping (over 8.5’ from rudder pedals to back of baggage area).
  • Baggage door added on left,
  • Metal access panels behind cowl and at tail (I’m redoing the whole boot cowl),
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Re: A Fascinating Oddball: The Kadey-170 Homebuilt

I wanted to do this a few years ago. Like the badlands traveller it makes sense to me, Cessna wings are available and you get to sit in a chrome moly fuselage. Experimental would be nice.
But laziness continues to prevail and I would rather go flying in my really fun 170:)
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Re: A Fascinating Oddball: The Kadey-170 Homebuilt

A quick check on the Canadian registry shows that its still "in service" as well
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