Hi Guys
Anyone seen a camera hatch like this in a 180/185/205/206 etc ?



Friend has bought it and this is posing a slight problem with the paperwork...
Thanks
Ian

Pretty sure its stock and if you look in the back of a parts book for that year it should show it as an option. There will be different cables and brackets for the elevator & rudder cables to go around the camera port. That should be enough proof to clear up any paperwork issues.

Dave

Thanks for that!
Cheers
Ian

Curious about the N number. I wonder if it's the one I used to fly in the late 70s

This one was in Mauritania for many years..pipeline survey, hence the camera we think. Rebuild in France in the late 1990s.
As far as we know didn't have an N reg...but going on it now [hopefully ]

Flying Kiwi wrote:This one was in Mauritania for many years..pipeline survey, hence the camera we think. Rebuild in France in the late 1990s.
As far as we know didn't have an N reg...but going on it now [hopefully ]

Thanks for that...not the same airplane.

OD - curious about what type of camera was used...

Kiwi:

I don't recall exactly - my job was to drive the airplane - but it would have been similar to this: http://arsf.nerc.ac.uk/instruments/rc-10.asp. We did mapping for the US government. My first, and last, paid flying gig. The company traded the 180 on a turbo 206. I flew for them until the crankshaft broke. Since the camera operator was the owner of the company, I resigned my position on the way down.