Worked,at Midway Airport,Chicago,from 1970,thru 2016! Early,70s,a dozen or so,came in every night,with mail!They,we’re beat up,check the gas,and fill the oil,wing and a prayer!The guys,flying them,were all,trying to get time!Brave souls!
The model 18 was a great aircraft. They were manufactured in Wichita, Kansas for more than thirty (30) years. Not many planes have such a long production history.
CAP Squadron 612, Chicago Heights, Illinois, had an event there in summer of 1954. Flew there as passenger with CAP pilot Howard Smith in his Aeronca Chief from Governor's Airpark in Matteson, Illinois. Grass strip in those days.
Those round engines drink oil by the gallon. How do I know? Worked at the local FBO in the summer during my college years in the early 70s and they were a popular mail plane at that time. And the local FBO still used one for air taxi work.
Not really. A high time 985 MIGHT use two quarts an hour, but that was very uncommon. It has an eight gallon tank. "If there ain't no oil on it THERE AIN'T NO OIL IN IT!" 😂
Larger and faster than her Lockheed This is the E Model 18 with three-blade Hartzell props and more cabin head room than the D. 9600 pound max gross weight.
Worked,at Midway Airport,Chicago,from 1970,thru 2016! Early,70s,a dozen or so,came in every night,with mail!They,we’re beat up,check the gas,and fill the oil,wing and a prayer!The guys,flying them,were all,trying to get time!Brave souls!
The model 18 was a great aircraft. They were manufactured in Wichita, Kansas for more than thirty (30) years. Not many planes have such a long production history.
CAP Squadron 612, Chicago Heights, Illinois, had an event there in summer of 1954. Flew there as passenger with CAP pilot Howard Smith in his Aeronca Chief from Governor's Airpark in Matteson, Illinois. Grass strip in those days.
What a real plane sounds like and looks !!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️
I worked on this aircraft for years! It was very well taken care of.
What a gorgeous airplane
The D model is a bit faster.
We had one in the early seventies at Glasgow airport in Scotland it was flown by Loganair G-ASUG…..Now in a museum..Great aircraft..
Music by Prayt & Whitney. 💥❤️
I flew in one of these to Milwaukee as "unlicensed" copilot back in 1959. No approach radar then. Great fun!
Did touch-and-goes there in a Cessna 175 in the early '70s, when it was just a grass field.
Got some time in an 18S on straight floats (wheels too)... enjoyed it a lot.
Gorgeous
What a beautifully redone aircraft.
Lovely bird. Thank goodness somebody didn't replace the original engines with turboprops. Reminds me a lot of Sky King's first plane.
Precioso y magnífico avión👏👏👏👏
In my very brief skydiving career, there was one at the jump center. Never got to jump from it though.
Has H model main landing gear forks.
got a few thousand hours in this bird. Needs lots of respect it will kill you if you're not careful
Sweet flying airplane, but evil on the ground. Sneaky little beast. Flew 18 months of airmail in northern Michigan.🙂
“ Mix me an Old Fashioned”!!
great aeroplane
Those round engines drink oil by the gallon. How do I know? Worked at the local FBO in the summer during my college years in the early 70s and they were a popular mail plane at that time. And the local FBO still used one for air taxi work.
Some do indeed. The bigger they are , the more typically they use especially compared to a flat engine.
Not really.
A high time 985 MIGHT use two quarts an hour, but that was very uncommon.
It has an eight gallon tank.
"If there ain't no oil on it THERE AIN'T NO OIL IN IT!" 😂
Looks like the tires are flat?
They do look a little low, but the ship may have been fully loaded.
@@flyingboballenthat's just how the small tire 18s look.
I truly loved flying the 18. Just don’t land it while eating a sandwich.
It looks like a Lockheed Electra 10. The Amelia Earhart airplane.
Larger and faster than her Lockheed
This is the E Model 18 with three-blade Hartzell props and more cabin head room than the D.
9600 pound max gross weight.
Morris, Il?
Yes
Roberto Carlos