I just fulfilled a dream come true. I bought an airplane! It's a 1953 C170B! Also, relatively new to BP forums and this is my first post.

That's a nice lookin 170. Welcome!

akschu wrote:That's a nice lookin 170. Welcome!

Thanks! Yes, she's a beauty. I had to constantly tell myself during prebuy to not get emotionally attached. But she came out really clean!

Welcome aboard and congrats!

That’s a very nice looking 170B! The ‘54 model year paint scheme is one of my favorites.

Although yours was built and registered in ‘53, it’s a ‘54 model by serial number. I only know this because I saw the SN in the advertisements for this plane when it was for sale.

SN 26122 is a 1954 model year 170B



My ‘55 170B is the same (built and registered in ‘54).

I bet you’re pretty jazzed up from the excitement of owning your first plane, so maybe you’ll enjoy some photos of literature from my library for your 170B.

I’m still just as excited about mine as the first day I saw it 30 years ago at an airshow. I was 13 years old at the time and in CAP working the flight line. I had no idea I would eventually solo and get my PPL in that plane and also own it!



1954 Sales brochure

Price list (late in ‘53 they were already building ‘54 model year aircraft)

1954 Spec sheet

1954 owners manual for the 170B “Businessliner”

Next time ATC asks you what type of Cessna you are, reply with that [emoji16]

And why not throw in the C-145/O-300 operators handbook too



Approximately 1.22 quarts per hour oil consumption at cruise! LOL

Congrats on a great looking airplane! Enjoy!

Beautiful 170!

Welcome. What year did that Cessna Manual start giving some really good advise for inadvertent IMC? It said to take your hands off the yoke and use rudder to get/maintain a slight deflection on the turn needle until course reversal.

Thanks for posting the manuals, Aryana! That in itself was a pleasant trip back in time!

Very nice looking plane!!

On another note...has anyone ever seen a 170 that will go over 140 mph with the 145 HP engine? I'm saying without a tailwind or it's nose pointed towards the earth! LOL

Congratulations Ironcondor! Very exciting and that is a great looking airplane? It looks familiar to me and I'm wondering if it used to be based in Nampa, ID?

Congrats! The airplane only gets more exciting, and you'll only get more poor. Ownership is the best!

Beautiful bird!

Great title, I think you'll fit in just fine.

Congratulations, and welcome to BCP.

Cheers...Rob

That's a sweet looking airplane, well done. I could not be happier with my 170, you will love it.

I got a chuckle over looking at the avionics options in the spec sheets. Years ago, in the summer of 1974, I think, I started regularly flying into "Sundance International", a ranch strip owned by Lee Schloredt located just west of Sundance, WY. He showed me his airplane, a pristine 1953 180 that he'd bought new, complete with the little wheel spats that Cessna offered then. It had the original Narco Superhomer radio in it, with no other avionics. His normal flying routine was to just fly around Crook County, keeping track of his cattle and making sure the fences were all OK. Then once a year, he'd fly over to Spearfish, SD, to have the airplane annualed.

The Superhomer came with only 3 crystals, one of them 122.8, although more could be added--I think a total of 10. Fortunately, 122.8 was also the unicom for Spearfish. So Lee never updated his radio--didn't need to.

When Lee died in a freak incident (he was struck by lightning while waiting by his car for his wife and daughter to say goodbye to one another after a Friday night dinner in 1993), his wife Millie didn't clear the estate for quite awhile. When she did, though, somebody got a really nice 180. Lee's airplane was always hangared at his strip, it was never damaged, he took good care of it, and when I last saw it, it looked factory-new, both inside and out.

Cary