well, after five months of looking for a new plane (and lurking around here - picking everyone's virtual on-line mind), I took the plunge and bought N5077D, a '58 182. P-Ponked with a 3 blade MacCauley, and a ton of other upgrades, I'll be bringing her home to Alaska this spring. Thanks to Bill Reid, who flew out from Nevada to St. Louis and then drove down to Poplar Bluff, MO to do the pre-buy and appraisal for me. The two days I spent with him were a serious education about airframes and powerplants.





See you around the loop!

Regards,

John

Very Nice...

That is one sweet looking machine! Congratulations!

Nice looking plane! Are you going to leave the wheel pants on, or remove them? The POH for my '59 172 says they only give a gain of 1 kt. airspeed. I figure they're taking almost a case of beer out of my payload, so mine grace the corner of my hangar. Of course, the drag reduction on a 182 might be quite a bit more, given the higher speed of the plane.

Congrats! Nice looking 182. One of the best nosedraggers every built IMHO.

Thanks All. kevbert, I'll probably take the pants off in the spring as a lot of the strips I go into are gravel. (On the other hand, maybe sacrificing the pants will keep the rocks from kicking up into the elevator . . . ?

Cheers,

John

Nice looking 182.

Very Nice

Who holds the STC for that panel?
I once saw a 210 that had to have its $20,000.00 panel removed before the feds would remove the red tag
For some reason they just hate it when people make there panel pretty with no STC

I seem to recall it's an Avion panel from reviewing the records . . . but its' been a couple of weeks since I was in the logs . . .

Love that straight tail. Love the old 182's.

Nice score on that plane, those old 182s are great.

Thanks John I'll be in touch -Way too pretty a airplane for me to take to the Canyon.

Good looking bird. Congrats!

very cool 182...pponks run hard....

Nice buy! Enjoy it.

That will be a winner. Put some big rubber on there and it will really look cool. Russ

I'm a '58 model too, wished I looked as good, congrats...

Wow! I missed this thread. Great looking 182!

I'm a 58 182 owner too and glad to see another on here.

Thanks. 58 Skylane, I saw a pic of your bird too, and all I can say is WOW.

Cheers,

John

Sierra Hotel wrote:Thanks. 58 Skylane, I saw a pic of your bird too, and all I can say is WOW.

Cheers,

John

I appreciate it! But, I think you have me beat! Your 58 is more Wow than