I love hearing all the little details like the trim or the handles. Its information like that which keeps me coming back here! So many other videos just do basic walkarounds and production history, but don't give you all the tiny details like this that can have potentially big impacts on day-to-day use. Keep up the great work!
Never enough Geekiness! If someone wants less go to another channel! You have such a wealth of knowledge and making sharing that your CZcams niche is great!!
@@skywagonuniversity5023 Bro…you do realize the industry and the clientele you are speaking to, right? I read your mini-bio on your website. You’ve been at this longer than I was wearing combat boots, and I’m fully retired for the past 3 years. If you don’t know that we are nerds-by-design by now, you’ve got a blind spot. I bet everyone reading this comment is knowingly nodding their heads. I’m being straight honest when I say that the first time I saw your site and watched your tempo and tenor and level of detail, and then saw it mixed in with “regular guy” personable conversation with the owners or fellow pilots, I thought to myself…”this cat is really on to something. He’s got the accent … that he’s probably about to school me is actually an anti-accent … … (as he reminds ME the actual name of the language that I speak, and then asks me a geography question, possibly referencing the originating epicenter of “Zulu Time - to remind me just exactly which of our two “accents” is uniquely native) But that sets him apart from the crowd. He isn’t a young hustler, unrelatable to most customers in the socio-economic demographic that can usually enter this market. He isn’t an old crusty fella that sneers at tech in the cockpit. But he seems more at home with a Scott 3200 and steam gauges than excited at an Avidyne or Garmin glass stack, and is the first guy at PVF I’d be likely to ask to give me a hand throw to fire up my Continental A-65 hanging wood on her nose. And he doesn’t gloss over the little things that make an inherently frugal and detail oriented customer realize inherent value at a premium to what we see while cruising Trade-a-Plane or Barnstormers (My Champ was restored using PK screws to the ribs vs Rivets…you are the one fella I’d vote most likely to highlight that quality level of detail in an ad) And most importantly of all, he takes us FLYING with every ad. And there are pilots reading this comment of mine that are only now reminding themselves that it was actually an advertisement (oftentimes) because it doesn’t feel like an ad. It ain’t a Cal Worthington commercial. It’s not a deep dive full length documentary. It’s just right. Multiple times I’ve watched them and thought to myself “how can I pivot his approach slightly and massively extend his reach…this has got to be easier than it seems, because NOBODY else is doing it as right as this guy.” That’s the real reason I mentioned taking you out for chow when I come back to Hangtown. I see some real brilliance in how you approach this and look forward to every notification I get when you upload content. I’m gonna guess I’m far from the only one that thinks that. Kudos on all that you do, Brother. This is precisely how we keep GA and antique birds relevant and intriguing to the next generation and beyond. TL/DR: No. Not too geeky.
I was fortunate enough to fly a new (at the time) 1978 Cessna 180 with the Robertson drooped aileron system for six years with the Department of Interior. An extremely capable airplane that served us well. Thank you Mark for an excellent video.
The tail is flying in the propwash and steering is with brakes. You should see some of the real STOL planes flying off-airport. They never put their tails down.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 I’ve always wanted to get my tail wheel endorsement but then you see all the fabulous videos of people ground looping their birds and I just never got around to it.
@@robertd4468 It’s worth it. It opens a whole other world. I took primary in a Champ at LVK and my checkride in a Citabria on a max crosswind component gusty day at RHV. It’s akin to my dad forcing me to drive stick and learn a 3-on-the-tree non synchro clutch, and spending a full day with that van in San Francisco before I took my driver’s test. I never have to question my “law of primacy” inherent core skill level. You won’t regret the time invested to make it happen. I promise.
The extra notch in the 40 degree flaps is often added at 5 degrees. It helps during climbout with heavy loads at low speeds. You can check it with a protractor against the bottom of wing with flaps extended.
This brings back memories of my 1955 Cessna 180, it[s been 32 years since I sold it, ( had it 10 years ) and I still miss it and the fun I had with it!
1645C brings back lots of memories!! I believe this is Zip Franklins 180 that I flew quite a bit ranching out of it in New Mexico. First notch of flaps was cut in at approximately 5 degrees to help when circling the ranch looking at water tanks, coyotes, etc. Zip had the 180, 3-182’s, Super Viking, Aerostar, 2-Waco’s, And 2-Buckers….also something to fly.
Zip had removed every thing that wasn’t necessary to lighten the aircraft and we used it as a ranch “pickup”. I had a controller in Midland, Texas gripe at me one time on final approach when he asked me to do a 360 as I was getting too close to a C-150 in front of me….I told him I would “stop right here for a minute” to give them 150 more room! He chewed me out for not telling him I was a “helicopter”……..I replied that I was a C-180 with a Horton STOL kit not a Helicopter…..Lots of good memories in that bird. Zip last flew it to Ruidoso, New Mexico in Sept. 1991 to pickup the Aerostar to fly it to Reno for Jimmy’s airshow. I was asked to go with him on that flight but but I couldn’t make it. The pilot Jimmy hired to fly the “star” crashed right after Takeoff killing Zip and himself……pilot error! I wished for years that I had gone with him as the crash would have never happened! Those were the days…..
@edblevins8754 I came here to leave the same comment about the first notch of flaps. My Dad, Andy Clayton is familiar with the airplane and explained that to me.
What a beautiful plane - my kind of plane.. .... I am always impressed by your level of knowledge regarding various makes and models of aeroplanes and it is easy to see that it is not Google knowledge, but knowledge gained over a lifetime of aviation experience...... greased the landing, showboated the taxi - excellent video, once again...
As kid growing up in the 70's, my dad owned a 1953 C-180 !! It was N2238C. Did several long cross country trips in it. It was based at a grass airport near Winchester Virginia.
Great airplane, my Dad had a 1955 180, actually a pair of them, ser. 31920 and earlier ser. 32005 if I recall correctly up in western Canada in the 1960's & 70's. Those old 180's gotta love em
@@dwaynemcallister7231 My dad sold that airplane a long time ago and like 20 years later I get these pictures in the mail. It was a totally reconditioned N2238C !! Some guy in Minnesota bought it and he used it for business. He literally {and I mean LITERALLY} flew N2238C from Minnesota to California and back and to the East Coast and back, and everywhere else in between. I'm not sure what kind of business he had, but I just thought it was great the airplane was being used for something useful.
Thank you, Tony! We got a new camera mount that makes it possible to mount (on some aircraft) to the outside of the plane. We'll keep using it in future videos. - Don the Camera Guy
I love your videos, and your knowledge is amazing. I would love to go to air shoes with you and walk up to random people with their Cessna’s and just watch you tell them more about their planes then they ever knew lol .
Beautiful plane Mark. Thankyou for your very interesting and informative tour. Nice wheeler landing too. I hear the solid gear makes landing without bouncing very difficult. Very impressed with your landing and taxiing skills.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 Those Rockwell Commanders are the coolest looking small airplane ever built. They have some front seat room too which is nice because I'm 6'4" and 270lbs. I'm looking forward to the video. I tried to buy a 112A when I was in college. N1355J. It was abandoned for a few years on the airport I worked at. It had been repo'd and I think that PNC Bank didn't know what to do with it. I made them an "as-is" offer, but they ended up putting it through the shop to get it to pass annual. It was in good shape minus some "lawn mower rash" on an aileron. I think the repair for the aileron was the most expensive thing we did to it, but all the little things it needed from sitting around really added up.
Yet another great informative video Mark! This 180 is just beautiful. I would buy it today if I had the money and lived in the US, lol. The modernisation with the new panel is realy tastefully done, and the handling in the pattern shows how good this big engined outstanding aircraft is with manual flaps as "big as barn doors". I'd be itching to fly this to Idaho for some airstrip happiness. There are plenty of 180/185s down here in NZL too due to our mountainous terrain, glacial fed shingle fan rivers and bush hide-aways. Makes me itchy for getting in tail draggers again!, Cheers, David.
Hi Mark, this is a great video! some really great insights, and a good laugh haha. In New Zealand we love or Skywagons! hopefully get to own one some day myself, will keep the circuits going in the Super Cub which is lots of fun. Thanks for the videos!
Who needs Navaids? I bet I can see that signal mirror’esque glint flash all the way from Mount Diablo. Like a miniature little sun hovering over Hangtown.
You should park the 180 next to Jimmys World's 310 Silver Bullet! I was in a 180 floatplane once, the noise was defeaning!! I had to yell for another person to hear me, no headphones.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 - Great stuff, we generally mixed ours 50/50 with Absinthe, mainly for the 'Harvey Wallclinger' or 'Scrumpy Surprise'. Oddly, the SU bar would never serve it pre-mixed. Good for the odd paintwork job too : )
What is youngest age of pilot ever to have regularly flown one of these early 180's, back when they were still factory new?? Is five years old mature enough do you think?? Every time we went 54 nautical miles out to sea from Ardmore (a former USAF WW11 Corsair Base) over the Pacific Ocean and out to the Great Barrier Island on regular commercial freight and passenger operations with ZK-BUF my father would say to me after reaching altitude on the empty return flight, "You have control. Fly straight and level 180 degrees" (from the top of the instrument cowling liquid-filled binnacle compass) Twenty minutes at a stretch at around 140 knots, not trying to save fuel particularly . . My feet could reach the rudder pedals..just I flew it. My father oversaw the engine management. As the mainland shore came into obvious closer view he would take back control . .
@@skywagonuniversity5023Yes, but I had been practising steering, madly pedalling everywhere like crazy, in a blue, pin-wheeled, 16 gauge steel Mk1 Zephyr pedalcar, since at least 3.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 Well, apparently she flew herself anyway.. lol Here is an excerpt from the '3rd level NZ' link.. "Cessna 180, ZK-BUF (c/n 180-32935). The Auckland Star, carrying a promotional article on the Club’s activities, reported that “The Cessnas ‘fly themselves’ once they are at the required height and on a steady course. The pilot just relaxes and, if he wishes, smokes.” While regular flights were made, the Great Barrier service tended to operate on an air taxi basis."
@@skywagonuniversity5023 Yeah, I've owned two Cessna 140s and they both had bolts. I was told it wasn't legal and had to replace them. You're also not allowed to replace windshield rivets with screws, but it's a common practice. Not hurting anything, just an FYI!
Mark, I’m curious if you ever watched a show called “Victory by Design”. Hosted by Alain de Cadenet? Your videos are the aviation version of that show. Great information, fun to watch, very relaxing to watch. I sometimes fall asleep and have to watch again but please believe me, that is my highest compliment! All my favorite shows put me in a state of zen which causes me to sleep 😂
Ohhhh... My all-time dream plane. The only topper to this one is a Cessna C188 (Ag Truck), armed with rocket and 30mm cannon pods (LoL). This could still carry that load easily
Enjoyed this immensely. Especially the show-off ground handling after the nice wheel landing. Wish you'd done some commentary on 3 points v wheelies in these. Got a job once when the boss of a little bush op fired a guy for landing his 180 3 point. How many gallons of fuel? I think the '53 I owned years ago only carried 48. Is there an STC to put a 260 hp 470 in in a '53 180? Does anybody still have the RayJay turbo? Mine had an A engine, which I found sorely lacking with 3 pax and DAs above 14K. Anyway, nice video, nice flying, pretty airplane.
I would love to have a "special edition" regarding skywagon orgional paint schemes. How to tell if the paint job is the original design or not, regardless if it's fresh paint etc.
I have been a fan of the Cessna 180 since I was ten years old. This one is beautiful with its polished surface. Is it legal to operate without the registration number displayed?
I’m not saying that flipping the yoke isn’t a good idea, but seriously doubt it is kosher with the FAA. They are just very particular about any mods to the flight controls.
Hello, sir. I'm here because I'm building a model of this plane. Thank you for straightening out all of the different things about the 180. I hate to ask, but are you able to do a 170?
The overlay is created from GPS data. I knew it wasn't great when I saw the turn coordinator acting like it had just spiked an 8 ball of crack. The better the GPS data, the better the overlay. It's just a representation. - Don the Camera Guy
I love hearing all the little details like the trim or the handles. Its information like that which keeps me coming back here! So many other videos just do basic walkarounds and production history, but don't give you all the tiny details like this that can have potentially big impacts on day-to-day use.
Keep up the great work!
Good, not too much "geekiness" then?
Never enough Geekiness! If someone wants less go to another channel! You have such a wealth of knowledge and making sharing that your CZcams niche is great!!
@@skywagonuniversity5023 Bro…you do realize the industry and the clientele you are speaking to, right?
I read your mini-bio on your website. You’ve been at this longer than I was wearing combat boots, and I’m fully retired for the past 3 years. If you don’t know that we are nerds-by-design by now, you’ve got a blind spot.
I bet everyone reading this comment is knowingly nodding their heads.
I’m being straight honest when I say that the first time I saw your site and watched your tempo and tenor and level of detail, and then saw it mixed in with “regular guy” personable conversation with the owners or fellow pilots, I thought to myself…”this cat is really on to something.
He’s got the accent … that he’s probably about to school me is actually an anti-accent …
… (as he reminds ME the actual name of the language that I speak, and then asks me a geography question, possibly referencing the originating epicenter of “Zulu Time - to remind me just exactly which of our two “accents” is uniquely native)
But that sets him apart from the crowd.
He isn’t a young hustler, unrelatable to most customers in the socio-economic demographic that can usually enter this market.
He isn’t an old crusty fella that sneers at tech in the cockpit.
But he seems more at home with a Scott 3200 and steam gauges than excited at an Avidyne or Garmin glass stack, and is the first guy at PVF I’d be likely to ask to give me a hand throw to fire up my Continental A-65 hanging wood on her nose.
And he doesn’t gloss over the little things that make an inherently frugal and detail oriented customer realize inherent value at a premium to what we see while cruising Trade-a-Plane or Barnstormers
(My Champ was restored using PK screws to the ribs vs Rivets…you are the one fella I’d vote most likely to highlight that quality level of detail in an ad)
And most importantly of all, he takes us FLYING with every ad.
And there are pilots reading this comment of mine that are only now reminding themselves that it was actually an advertisement (oftentimes) because it doesn’t feel like an ad.
It ain’t a Cal Worthington commercial.
It’s not a deep dive full length documentary.
It’s just right.
Multiple times I’ve watched them and thought to myself “how can I pivot his approach slightly and massively extend his reach…this has got to be easier than it seems, because NOBODY else is doing it as right as this guy.”
That’s the real reason I mentioned taking you out for chow when I come back to Hangtown.
I see some real brilliance in how you approach this and look forward to every notification I get when you upload content.
I’m gonna guess I’m far from the only one that thinks that.
Kudos on all that you do, Brother.
This is precisely how we keep GA and antique birds relevant and intriguing to the next generation and beyond.
TL/DR: No. Not too geeky.
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@@SnoopDougieDoug Thank you very much for this.
I was fortunate enough to fly a new (at the time) 1978 Cessna 180 with the Robertson drooped aileron system for six years with the Department of Interior. An extremely capable airplane that served us well. Thank you Mark for an excellent video.
The polished interior panel was a nice touch. 👌
Beautiful - and informative and entertaining as ever. Thanks Mark!
The control wheels have been unbolted and bolted on "upside down" for more knee clearance! 🤠
This is brilliant. Phenomenal aircraft and presentation!
I’ve never seen a tail dragger taxi and make turns with the tail wheel still up. That’s crazy.
The tail is flying in the propwash and steering is with brakes. You should see some of the real STOL planes flying off-airport. They never put their tails down.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 I’ve always wanted to get my tail wheel endorsement but then you see all the fabulous videos of people ground looping their birds and I just never got around to it.
@@robertd4468 It’s worth it. It opens a whole other world.
I took primary in a Champ at LVK and my checkride in a Citabria on a max crosswind component gusty day at RHV.
It’s akin to my dad forcing me to drive stick and learn a 3-on-the-tree non synchro clutch, and spending a full day with that van in San Francisco before I took my driver’s test.
I never have to question my “law of primacy” inherent core skill level.
You won’t regret the time invested to make it happen. I promise.
gorgeous and you do a great job of flying her,
Thank you very much!
I love the look of polished aluminum airplanes! They look so 1930s Art Deco. Love it!
You have to live in a dry place to have one.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 darn corrosion!
@@garyowen9044Just put a coat of wax on it after you polish it and it will be fine
Such a pretty plane. Interior is well maintained as well. Leather looks near new.
Thank you Mark and camera man Don!
You are welcome, David! - Don the Camera Guy
The labor required was worth it...simply, beautiful
The extra notch in the 40 degree flaps is often added at 5 degrees. It helps during climbout with heavy loads at low speeds. You can check it with a protractor against the bottom of wing with flaps extended.
It's a very good idea. Than ks for responding.
Love it. When I’m ready to buy a plane I’m driving up to see this guy.
Thanks. Come on up.
Mark took me on my first ride in a 180 in May of 2000. It was a 1955. I liked it so much I bought it.
I remember. Going for a first ride in a 180 can be very expensive.
This brings back memories of my 1955 Cessna 180, it[s been 32 years since I sold it, ( had it 10 years ) and I still miss it and the fun I had with it!
Great old planes. No-one knew that they would be "generational"
1645C brings back lots of memories!! I believe this is Zip Franklins 180 that I flew quite a bit ranching out of it in New Mexico. First notch of flaps was cut in at approximately 5 degrees to help when circling the ranch looking at water tanks, coyotes, etc. Zip had the 180, 3-182’s, Super Viking, Aerostar, 2-Waco’s, And 2-Buckers….also something to fly.
That's the one. 70 years of history in it.
Zip had removed every thing that wasn’t necessary to lighten the aircraft and we used it as a ranch “pickup”. I had a controller in Midland, Texas gripe at me one time on final approach when he asked me to do a 360 as I was getting too close to a C-150 in front of me….I told him I would “stop right here for a minute” to give them 150 more room! He chewed me out for not telling him I was a “helicopter”……..I replied that I was a C-180 with a Horton STOL kit not a Helicopter…..Lots of good memories in that bird. Zip last flew it to Ruidoso, New Mexico in Sept. 1991 to pickup the Aerostar to fly it to Reno for Jimmy’s airshow. I was asked to go with him on that flight but but I couldn’t make it. The pilot Jimmy hired to fly the “star” crashed right after Takeoff killing Zip and himself……pilot error! I wished for years that I had gone with him as the crash would have never happened! Those were the days…..
@@edblevins8764 Interesting about the slow flight in the 180. Fun doing that. Sad about the crash in the Astar.
@edblevins8754 I came here to leave the same comment about the first notch of flaps. My Dad, Andy Clayton is familiar with the airplane and explained that to me.
What a beautiful plane - my kind of plane.. .... I am always impressed by your level of knowledge regarding various makes and models of aeroplanes and it is easy to see that it is not Google knowledge, but knowledge gained over a lifetime of aviation experience...... greased the landing, showboated the taxi - excellent video, once again...
300 landings to get that one. Ha ha, no, got lucky.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 it was a textbook landing nonetheless Mark.. well done.
Great looking plane, great video!
Thanks.
301th like now. Nice taxiing with the tail up. Great skills maneuvering it. An old friend, huh? Nice camera show, Don!
Thank you for the praise, Tomasnock! - Don the Camera Guy
Another fantastic video, thanks Mark!
As kid growing up in the 70's, my dad owned a 1953 C-180 !! It was N2238C. Did several long cross country trips in it. It was based at a grass airport near Winchester Virginia.
Great airplane, my Dad had a 1955 180, actually a pair of them, ser. 31920 and earlier ser. 32005 if I recall correctly up in western Canada in the 1960's & 70's. Those old 180's gotta love em
@@dwaynemcallister7231 My dad sold that airplane a long time ago and like 20 years later I get these pictures in the mail. It was a totally reconditioned N2238C !! Some guy in Minnesota bought it and he used it for business. He literally {and I mean LITERALLY} flew N2238C from Minnesota to California and back and to the East Coast and back, and everywhere else in between. I'm not sure what kind of business he had, but I just thought it was great the airplane was being used for something useful.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing the little details
Love all the detailed information. You have definitely done the research. Keep it up!
Damn that's a beautiful plane!
i like the 360 camera views 👍
Thank you, Tony! We got a new camera mount that makes it possible to mount (on some aircraft) to the outside of the plane. We'll keep using it in future videos. - Don the Camera Guy
I love your videos, and your knowledge is amazing.
I would love to go to air shoes with you and walk up to random people with their Cessna’s and just watch you tell them more about their planes then they ever knew lol .
that airfield is great. bet challenging in a wind too
It can have a burble over the approach end of 23 in a wind.
Beautiful plane Mark. Thankyou for your very interesting and informative tour. Nice wheeler landing too. I hear the solid gear makes landing without bouncing very difficult. Very impressed with your landing and taxiing skills.
Thank you.
Fantastic airplane . . . now I want one just like it. Thanks for the ride.
I can help......
Thanks for another great video Mark. I look forward to each of your amazing videos!
An Aero Commander 112 next.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 Those Rockwell Commanders are the coolest looking small airplane ever built. They have some front seat room too which is nice because I'm 6'4" and 270lbs. I'm looking forward to the video.
I tried to buy a 112A when I was in college. N1355J. It was abandoned for a few years on the airport I worked at. It had been repo'd and I think that PNC Bank didn't know what to do with it. I made them an "as-is" offer, but they ended up putting it through the shop to get it to pass annual. It was in good shape minus some "lawn mower rash" on an aileron. I think the repair for the aileron was the most expensive thing we did to it, but all the little things it needed from sitting around really added up.
Fantastic video. Thx! The inscreen instruments are a very good idea!
Nice Landing Mark ...Tail draggers forever !
I get away with it sometimes.
Yet another great informative video Mark! This 180 is just beautiful. I would buy it today if I had the money and lived in the US, lol. The modernisation with the new panel is realy tastefully done, and the handling in the pattern shows how good this big engined outstanding aircraft is with manual flaps as "big as barn doors". I'd be itching to fly this to Idaho for some airstrip happiness. There are plenty of 180/185s down here in NZL too due to our mountainous terrain, glacial fed shingle fan rivers and bush hide-aways. Makes me itchy for getting in tail draggers again!, Cheers, David.
This is a very nice looking Aircraft 🧐👌👍Cheers 🍻🍻
Gorgeous bird! and LOVE the sound of that engine. Wish I had the $200k!
Wow! 70-years old!
Awesome BIRD! Dream machine. Good luck with her.
You really know your stuff
That was lovely. The video, and the plane.
Thanks.
Hi Mark, this is a great video! some really great insights, and a good laugh haha. In New Zealand we love or Skywagons! hopefully get to own one some day myself, will keep the circuits going in the Super Cub which is lots of fun. Thanks for the videos!
Glad you enjoyed the video, Cameron!
Mark this is one Cessna 180 that I would love to fly and to owning and operate for my business
First plane ride I got as a kid was in a 180, back about 1970.
Back when cars were made of steel and you could ride in the back of your drunk uncle's pickup truck.
Great looking airplane!
Beautiful Wheel landing Mark is the best way
Thanks.
18:51 I like that turn coordinator... haha
Phone rings AND there is an actual skywagon on screne, I really am watching Skywagon University right now!
Also, love the shiny plane.
It looked staged, but that was a real call. Sorry. Ha ha ha
@@skywagonuniversity5023 The calls being real is why we know we are watching Skywagon University
Damn, that's a beauty. Makes me want to get my tail endorsement.
You can audibly hear it corroding while you watch⁉️😂🤣 Being from the Wet Coast of BC I know what you mean.👍🏻💸
Your videos are so entertaining. Please keep making them!
I will . Thanks.
Who needs Navaids? I bet I can see that signal mirror’esque glint flash all the way from Mount Diablo.
Like a miniature little sun hovering over Hangtown.
Shades required.
Absolutely beautiful legacy aircraft...thx
I love the upside-down yokes. I don't use a kneeboard because I'm tall and can't use a kneeboard without it getting in the way of the yoke.
Very Nice. Love the polished look but I would have a couple red stripes to break it up. :)
Like the one that taxi-ed by after I landed?
Show off. Great job on that taxi, tailwheel up. Mark.
Ha , sorry. Couldn't resist.
Beautiful little airplane.
G,day Mark at Skywagon University.
I appreciate the panel instruments from the plane, on video.
🌏🇭🇲
Thank you, John! The overlay is just a representation of the panel, using GPS data to create it. Not perfect, but still useful! - Don the Camera Guy
I was just looking at this on Controller. I can't afford it, but I was still looking at it. Haha
Gorgeous aircraft.
Wings aren’t ‘53 unless someone moved the vents out. Beautiful plane!
Even with rear seat vents?
from Alaska! the wettest state in the union what a beauty👍
Wet on the coast in the panhandle. Desert dry in the interior and all moisture is frozen all winter. Alaska is mostly very dry.
You should park the 180 next to Jimmys World's 310 Silver Bullet! I was in a 180 floatplane once, the noise was defeaning!! I had to yell for another person to hear me, no headphones.
What a beautiful airplane!
And it is 70 years old.
A great short field airplane! Same with the 182 ! They can carry a lot of weight and land very short! I have a bunch of hours in one !
What a beauty 👍👍
what a dream machine!
"Use enough T-cut there Butch?" - Lovely machine, much envy : )
You must be in England. I used T-cut on my old cars back when I was at college.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 - Great stuff, we generally mixed ours 50/50 with Absinthe, mainly for the 'Harvey Wallclinger' or 'Scrumpy Surprise'. Oddly, the SU bar would never serve it pre-mixed. Good for the odd paintwork job too : )
What is youngest age of pilot ever to have regularly flown one of these early 180's, back when they were still factory new??
Is five years old mature enough do you think??
Every time we went 54 nautical miles out to sea from Ardmore (a former USAF WW11 Corsair Base) over the Pacific Ocean and out to the Great Barrier Island on regular commercial freight and passenger operations with ZK-BUF my father would say to me after reaching altitude on the empty return flight, "You have control. Fly straight and level 180 degrees" (from the top of the instrument cowling liquid-filled binnacle compass)
Twenty minutes at a stretch at around 140 knots, not trying to save fuel particularly . .
My feet could reach the rudder pedals..just
I flew it. My father oversaw the engine management.
As the mainland shore came into obvious closer view he would take back control . .
I could not steer my pedal tricycle at 5.
@@skywagonuniversity5023Yes, but I had been practising steering, madly pedalling everywhere like crazy, in a blue, pin-wheeled, 16 gauge steel Mk1 Zephyr pedalcar, since at least 3.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 Well, apparently she flew herself anyway.. lol
Here is an excerpt from the '3rd level NZ' link.. "Cessna 180, ZK-BUF (c/n 180-32935). The Auckland Star, carrying a promotional article on the Club’s activities, reported that “The Cessnas ‘fly themselves’ once they are at the required height and on a steady course. The pilot just relaxes and, if he wishes, smokes.” While regular flights were made, the Great Barrier service tended to operate on an air taxi basis."
Check into the bolts on the yoke. Pretty sure they're illegal. Should be rivets. As always great video!
Even if they are not turned over, worn rivets are replaced by bolts on many planes.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 Yeah, I've owned two Cessna 140s and they both had bolts. I was told it wasn't legal and had to replace them. You're also not allowed to replace windshield rivets with screws, but it's a common practice. Not hurting anything, just an FYI!
Mark, I’m curious if you ever watched a show called “Victory by Design”. Hosted by Alain de Cadenet? Your videos are the aviation version of that show. Great information, fun to watch, very relaxing to watch. I sometimes fall asleep and have to watch again but please believe me, that is my highest compliment! All my favorite shows put me in a state of zen which causes me to sleep 😂
I've talked to Alain De Cadenet a few years ago. He is famous for being buzzed by that Spitfire too. I have not seen the show but will look it up.
❤ loved it more skywagons!
Ohhhh... My all-time dream plane. The only topper to this one is a Cessna C188 (Ag Truck), armed with rocket and 30mm cannon pods (LoL). This could still carry that load easily
Enjoyed this immensely. Especially the show-off ground handling after the nice wheel landing. Wish you'd done some commentary on 3 points v wheelies in these. Got a job once when the boss of a little bush op fired a guy for landing his 180 3 point. How many gallons of fuel? I think the '53 I owned years ago only carried 48. Is there an STC to put a 260 hp 470 in in a '53 180? Does anybody still have the RayJay turbo? Mine had an A engine, which I found sorely lacking with 3 pax and DAs above 14K. Anyway, nice video, nice flying, pretty airplane.
Yes, you can put an injected IO-470 in it.
Great bush plane.
Loved it!
I would love to have a "special edition" regarding skywagon orgional paint schemes. How to tell if the paint job is the original design or not, regardless if it's fresh paint etc.
But I'd have to have a lot of wagons here to go over the schemes.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 Fair enough, that would be a lot of work. 😁
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Beautiful airplane!! I would set it down in the grass every chance I got. The Alaska Bush tires are $$$$!!!! 8) --gary
I could have sworn I'd flown '53 180s with the pushbutton baggage door. I guess they must not have been stock. 🤔
I have been a fan of the Cessna 180 since I was ten years old. This one is beautiful with its polished surface. Is it legal to operate without the registration number displayed?
It is 70 years old. They have a lot of fans over the years. Thanks.
I’m not saying that flipping the yoke isn’t a good idea, but seriously doubt it is kosher with the FAA. They are just very particular about any mods to the flight controls.
The extra knee clearance makes it far safer but I know what you mean.
First thing I thought, and if anything happened, they’d screw the mechanic who signed that off/signed that annual
Yep, it’s so shiny. I can see all your fingerprints from you tapping away at it
She's a working girl.
Very nice.
Simply Irresistible - 🎙🎼🎼🎵she's so fine 🎶
You got that S.S.S. shiny skywagon syndrome. 2:31 YEEESSSSSSSSSS
Very true.
Hello, sir. I'm here because I'm building a model of this plane. Thank you for straightening out all of the different things about the 180.
I hate to ask, but are you able to do a 170?
Look on the channel there are three videos about 170's
czcams.com/video/CTKXTRe8xMU/video.html
As shiny as a quarter.
I’m going to fly my luscombe out there sometime soon so you’ll be can fly it and give me a review
Let me know when.
Deal or no deal
It's a deal.
:bow: so nice!
Is that a McCauley c223 prop? Any good?
Yes very good, no AD's
*_Dig the side by side seating. The interior paint color however makes me want to berf............._*
Nice
This guy needs to do this while using a tobacco pipe
I'm ready to BUY ! How much Mark?
It’s on his web site for a cool $199K
Sharp looker, but why were the gauges all over the place?
The gauges take info from the Go Pro GPS info. The Go Pro must have been confused.
The overlay is created from GPS data. I knew it wasn't great when I saw the turn coordinator acting like it had just spiked an 8 ball of crack. The better the GPS data, the better the overlay. It's just a representation. - Don the Camera Guy
@@skywagonuniversity5023 Thanks, I was worried about you guys for a minute there.
Beautiful bird. 👍
What bugger of a job …! Do you pay yourself well ! Bugger off for a weekend in the bosses plane ..? Hope he fills it up before hand …..👍
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Mr. Mckenna
Nearly like his.
In fact it was his. ;-)
i believe Mr. Mckenna has a 170B polished, don't see the 180 anymore up here.
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