"What is that?" one of my students asked as we stood in front of a tailwheel-equipped red, white and blue two-place Cessna at this summer's Arlington Fly-in in Washington state. It wasn't a Cessna 120. It wasn't a 140. Did Cessna make other two-place tailwheel designs? "It looks like a Cessna 150 — did they have tailwheels?" another student asked. Cellphones were deployed and Google search applied. Apparently Cessna did, as one of the hundreds of modifications the Cessna 150 series has. We hunkered down in the grass for a closer inspection. On the belly is a metal patch where the main landing gear had been attached, leading us to surmise that the airplane had been nosewheel-equipped at one point in time. The checkerboard pattern on the tail told us it was an Aerobat. Continue Reading »

===> Posted on October 12th, 2011 by Meg Godlewski. No comments. © GAN 2011.