Mine don't go back that far. When I sold my 180, the sons of the long time (45 year) owner saw the ad and reached out to me about it's history which I was thankful for. This is not the person I bought from, it's about 3 owners back, but was the person who really spent the most time with the plane.

Sometime in the 90's in California, the day Vernal Turnquist (what a name!) sold 12B and sent it to the East Coast. Notice how both stripes are blue.



The day Matt (mountainmatt) and I picked her up in West Virginia to bring her back to her rightful place in the mountain west. Bank account lost $75,000.


The essence of my airplane ownership. Skipping interstate traffic and flying into totality for the Solar Eclipse, and then camping at Mack Mesa:



The day I dropped her off at the new owner's house and left with $98,765.43 in my pocket.




I always thought this was the ugliest 185 paint scheme but it has grown on me to be my favorite. So unique compared to other classic Cessnas.

pilotryan wrote:

Imported from the US to Canada in 1977. Wish I had the US log book. Original Canadian owner sold the plane in the late eighties to a group of three guys. The group then sold it to the guy i bought it from. One of the group has the log book, but none of them strangely would talk to me - wouldn't return my phone messages or facebook messages so i gave up. Plane had a nose over when they owned it and they took over 2 years to fix it - I imagine there was some hard feelings there.

I did talked to the original owners widow who said her husband loved the plane, best plane he ever owned. She sent me the old pics.

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