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Anyone know anything about this? What makes a swept tail 182 with an O-470 converted to a tail wheel a 185?

I love the idea of one of the "widebody" Cessna converted to a taildragger, anybody know how it was done?

Experimental? What kind of experimental?

Sam


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It was involved in an incident and converted to taildrager during repairs. Changed to experimental at that time. I guess they decided on their own it is a 185, go figure. My opinion is that it is not that appealing when standing next to it.

In that case I'm going to call this a Cessna 196.

I just looked up the tail number and it's in the experimental exhibition category

The 196 name is already taken, it is a Cessna 195 with a P&W 985. More than one converted.

Tim

bat443 wrote:The 196 name is already taken, it is a Cessna 195 with a P&W 985. More than one converted.

Tim

I want one of those

bat443 wrote:The 196 name is already taken, it is a Cessna 195 with a P&W 985. More than one converted.

Tim

I met this guy at Sun n Fun 2016. Jetblue Pilot out of MCO if I remember right. We chatted for quite a while. He said these were done for high altitude aerial photography many years ago. I think he said it would get into the mid 20's without any problem.

IMG_3353 by AEROPOD, on Flickr

IMG_3354 by AEROPOD, on Flickr

AEROPOD wrote:

bat443 wrote:The 196 name is already taken, it is a Cessna 195 with a P&W 985. More than one converted.

Tim

I met this guy at Sun n Fun 2016. Jetblue Pilot out of MCO if I remember right. We chatted for quite a while. He said these were done for high altitude aerial photography many years ago. I think he said it would get into the mid 20's without any problem.

IMG_3353 by AEROPOD, on Flickr

IMG_3354 by AEROPOD, on Flickr

Hey thats a nice ship!!

Bhawk wrote:I just looked up the tail number and it's in the experimental exhibition category

That can be a VERY restrictive category, depends on the restrictions the FAA or DAR put on it when issuing the airworthiness certificate.

G44 wrote:

Bhawk wrote:I just looked up the tail number and it's in the experimental exhibition category

That can be a VERY restrictive category, depends on the restrictions the FAA or DAR put on it when issuing the airworthiness certificate.

My understanding is that it's so restrictive that for all practical purposes, it'll take all the fun out of owning an airplane. From the FAA website:

Exhibition: to exhibit an aircraft’s flight capabilities, performance, or unusual characteristics for air shows, motion pictures, television, and similar productions, and for the maintenance of exhibition flight proficiency.

Just flying around, using it like any ordinary airplane, flying into the back country to camp, etc., would likely not pass the smell test for "the maintenance of exhibition flight proficiency" provision.

Cary

To be fair, I believe a lot of airplanes are registered experimental-exhibition:
Yak 52, Nanchang, AN-2, etc.
Legal or not, it doesn't seem to stop their owners from flying them around a lot.
Might be pretty tough to explain away going camping with one in the back country though.