New press release this morning…

Who DOESN’T want a dope set of polished ti gear??? BCP sponsor McFarlane Aviation is now the exclusive distributor for The Landing Gear Works (TLGW) whose products include Cessna tail cone angle kit, trim wheel, titanium axles, tailwheel fork bearings and seal kits.

Any updates on installing the LD 180 ti gear on a 170B? Already have steel 180 gear with the TIC170A STC. Also have Pponk beef-up kit installed. Seems to me Tom was developing ti gear for the 170 a couple years ago, or maybe getting approvals to install the light 180 gear on 170s.

Thanks,

-DP

Talked to them today at the PNW Aviation Conference.
You can put the180 non heavy duty titanium gear on the 170B, its approved for that.

I was at the NW Aviation show today also.
TLGW & McFarlane booths were right across from each other.
I asked McF about ordering direct from TLGW,
they said TLGW would just refer you to McF for the actual purchase.

BTW Tom Anderson had his turboprop-powered 180 project on display again.
This year it had a very nice looking aluminum cowl mounted.
Nice to see, the other turbine skywagon(s) I've seen had a horribly ugly cowl.
I guess the other engine had a tall reduction-drive gearbox that Tom's engine doesn't.
Of course, it was fitted with his ti gear legs and his 14" (500x5) tailwheel.
Also with a ti tailspring which was quite large in diameter,
I guess it's 1-1/4" so a matching t/w head is required.

When he finally gets it finished, it's really gonna be something.

Any photo's of the turbine 180 ?

motoadve wrote:Talked to them today at the PNW Aviation Conference.
You can put the180 non heavy duty titanium gear on the 170B, its approved for that.

Straight from the source- thanks Moto!

-DP

Mapleflt wrote:Any photo's of the turbine 180 ?

Unfortunately I didn't take one..
Looked on TLGW's website & FB page, no pics either place.
But it looked way sleeker than this one.

My friend was selling that for a widow and I seriously thought about buying it and going back to a Lycoming as it was registered as an experimental. I chickened out.
Had some cool mods and I thought an experimental Cessna would be the bomb.

He had actually owned it in the past and left it crashed in the bush. The guy who developed the Soloy salvaged it to develop the conversion. It sold to a lodge in the north and was for sale again last year.

Almost as ugly as the soloy 207 ouch painflul.