Cessna 196

[piper17 1]

Finally started going through my thousands of slides of the "old days" and came across these from Z-Hills and the Cessna 196

"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"...Rudyard Kipling

[riggerrob 643]

IIRC, that was modified with a Pratt & Whitney R985 engine out of a Beaver ... maybe Beech 18.

[poppenhager 1]

Howard DGA fire wall forward except the prop!

[ss89 0]

[poppenhager 1]

Note the RESTRICTED sign on the RH rear side window! Was to be used for aerial maping only!
POP

[3331 137]

In the usual suspects picture, the guy on the far left kneeling with no shirt looks like Dave Bellak.

I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

[RogerRamjet 0]

That plane had three paint jobs, two of which were while I was jumping at Z-Hills. The original paint scheme was a two color (blue and white I think, but I can't really remember). Then one day I arrived at the DZ and they were stripping the plane with paint stripper. Afterwards, they polished the skin and that's the "color" it was until after I left. Later it got the rainbow scheme (and the C-47 too) you see in your picture. Not sure if they clear coated the polished plane or not, maybe Hooper will remember.

I remember Jeff Searles initiating Lou Howell on flying the 196. "Take her to the back runway and do some taxiing to get a feel for her. Takeoff is just a fast taxi." Not long after Lou starting flying the plane, it lost oil pressure just after dropping a load and he dead sticked it perfectly right in front of the center.

As I recall, it also had two different wings during it's career at Z-Hills. There is another thread on this aircraft in this forum somehere.

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Roger "Ramjet" Clark
FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

[Mountainsky1 0]

Actually the restricted certificate still says aerial photography and parachute jumping. We actually won a court case againts the FAA on this issue.

MJ

[ss89 0]

1st 8-Man Waunakee, Wi 6/14/73 " The Usual Suspects " L-R: G Larson,B. Zimmerman,J "FUBAR" Battalio, D."SHAKEY" Bulin, D Patterson, J. Konicek, J " Smitty" Schmidt, J. Severson, S. "SS" Schimming 1st of many with C196. Mandatory manifest scratch any individual with possibility of flatulence.

[lodestar 0]

I probably have over a thousand hours in this aircraft....you may know me as Tuna..back in those days...when i flew her, she was red and white, still had wintip tanks and an aux tank behind the back firewall...\
I still remember that aircraft and it is now somewhere in south florida.
Thanks for the pictures....wow...
Bill

[itllclear 1]

Is it the same one that was at Rainbow? I think Frank Younquist was the pilot.

"Harry, why did you land all the way out there? Nobody else landed out there."

"Your statement answered your question."

[lodestar 0]

I believe it was, I have a picture (which i will soon scan and post) of jeff, bonnie and frank standing in front of the aircraft down in florida when he brought it in.....
I flew at rainbow from 62-69 when I moved to florida to work for jeff as pilot and rigger....and worked at the hills until jeff got busted in chattanooga. The fbi had me under surveaillance for almost three years after that, making it difficult to fly anymore so I just quit.
Those days were something else!!!
Bill, Tuna, Case