| | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 13,969 Member/10,000+ posts! | | Member/10,000+ posts! Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 13,969 | I was just on the Micro VG site. They still have a '63 150 for sale. From the description and pictures this should be a real gem. Maybe something Steven should consider? Seriously! This aircraft sounds like it has had a thourough going over. : FOR SALE: 1963 Cessna 150C TTA: 4316 TTE: 134 Total Airframe Rebuilt May 30 1998 Annual9/1/2004 Radio - KX179B Trans - KT176A ELT New Instruments New Glass Flap Gap Seals Strobes New Interior New Paint New Tires New Battery New Mufflers Micro AeroDynamics VGs installed. $26,500 You can find pictures at http://www.microaero.com/pages/a_cub4sale.html | | | | | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 13,969 Member/10,000+ posts! | | Member/10,000+ posts! Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 13,969 | Look closely at the interior picture. Are those braces behind the windshield??????? | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 123 Member/100+posts | | Member/100+posts Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 123 | I had a look at the '63 150. Yes, those are braces behind the windscreen (unusual). Anyway, the airplane is located in Washington State and is too far away for me. Besides, I have my heart set on getting a low time Aerobat. Thanks for the suggestion just the same.
Steve | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 184 Member/100+posts | | Member/100+posts Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 184 | I had a look at the '63 150. Yes, those are braces behind the windscreen (unusual). Those are for the 'B' Float kit. It should also have lifting eyes on the wing roots, factory corrosion proofing and stainless steel control cables. Ed | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 79 Member | | Member Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 79 | Ed
That may be a float kit V-brace but the float kit was available from the factory until the 1967 G models. Anything older than a G model is not approved for floats. If someone knows differant I need the paper work.
Kenny | | | | | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 18,962 Likes: 4 Member/15,000 posts | | Member/15,000 posts Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 18,962 Likes: 4 | stainless steel control cables A plus on a float plane, for their corrosion resistant qualities! A minus on anything else, due to stiffness (which you can sometimes feel in the controls) and wear! | | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 8,433 Likes: 3 Member/7500+posts | | Member/7500+posts Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 8,433 Likes: 3 | stainless steel control cables A plus on a float plane, for their corrosion resistant qualities! A minus on anything else, due to stiffness (which you can sometimes feel in the controls) and wear! True, stainless does not like to bend. Take it around pulleys and it will break strands and fray long before carbon steel cables will. Its fine in straight runs, such as the rudder cables, and the elevator cables, both of which only make slight bends around pulleys. It is a bad thing on flap and aileron cables that make mutiple bends around pulleys on their way out to the wings. Charles | | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 8,433 Likes: 3 Member/7500+posts | | Member/7500+posts Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 8,433 Likes: 3 | I had a look at the '63 150. Yes, those are braces behind the windscreen (unusual). Those are for the 'B' Float kit. It should also have lifting eyes on the wing roots, factory corrosion proofing and stainless steel control cables. Ed What is a "B" float kit? As Kenny noted, the 1963 150C is not certified for floats. Charles | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 184 Member/100+posts | | Member/100+posts Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 184 | It's been several years since I read the Cessna manuals for a 67 150 that had the A kit installed. As I recall, the A kit got you the stainless cables, corrosion proofing, the wing root lifting eyes - and something else (I just don't remember what it was). The B kit included the winshield brace among other things. I want to say that the B kit included the floats. I don't have a way to go back and check - that plane and the manuals were sold. Ed | | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 3,062 Visit Put-In-Bay!! Member/2500+posts | | Visit Put-In-Bay!! Member/2500+posts Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 3,062 | What advantage does the windsheild brace give? Are they that "flexible" in that spot?
-Bryan
U.S.C.G. licensed captain
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