BeechTalk - BT - Cessna 206 -- I want to know

Username Protected · **Posted:** 09 Jul 2020, 23:19

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You should consider an A36. If you try one you might like it.

You might talk him into one

But I think he's already owned Two :thumbup:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 09 Jul 2020, 23:25

find one with Robertson STOL, cuffs & tips, sporting an IO550 and 2 elk, guns & 3 buddies can go anywhere.

Doing my commercial sea on amphibs in one ... challenging!

Username Protected · **Posted:** 09 Jul 2020, 23:30

Major Chnages for the TU206
1966: gross increased from 3300 to 3600.
1968: larger horizontal stab.
1975: R lower cowl access panel. Seems like nothing, but when I told my mechanic I bought a T206 he was happy it had this access panel. Easier access to the turbo.
1977: HP increase. 285 to 310 (available of 5 minutes)
1978: Introduced 24 volt electrics. Last year of fuel bladders (76 useable fuel).
1979: Wet wing fuel tanks 88 gal useable.
1986: last year of G model and Continental 520. Cessna took a hiatus from the 206 for 12 years.
1998: restarted the 206 line. Lycoming 540 powered. Smooth, nice AC, but about 150# heavier than previous G model (still with 3600# GW). Heavy weight and seat design is a disadvantage to utility. No individual 3rd row seats and they are a pain to remove vs the older style rail system.

77-79 looks like good years

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Jul 2020, 01:00

How far are your flights? Assuming these are 30min - 1hr, is flying twice (shuttling stuff) an acceptable alternative? 2 times a 182 is greater then a one times a 206.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Jul 2020, 04:52

Username Protected wrote:

How far are your flights? Assuming these are 30min - 1hr, is flying twice (shuttling stuff) an acceptable alternative? 2 times a 182 is greater then a one times a 206.

Darn BT’r. :crazy:

Logic has nothing to do with this.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Jul 2020, 07:05

Username Protected wrote:

How far are your flights? Assuming these are 30min - 1hr, is flying twice (shuttling stuff) an acceptable alternative? 2 times a 182 is greater then a one times a 206.

Funny you should say that. We do that all the time.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Jul 2020, 07:06

Username Protected wrote:

How far are your flights? Assuming these are 30min - 1hr, is flying twice (shuttling stuff) an acceptable alternative? 2 times a 182 is greater then a one times a 206.

Darn BT’r. :crazy:

Logic has nothing to do with this.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Jul 2020, 07:52

Username Protected wrote:

Major Chnages for the TU206
1966: gross increased from 3300 to 3600.
1968: larger horizontal stab.
1975: R lower cowl access panel. Seems like nothing, but when I told my mechanic I bought a T206 he was happy it had this access panel. Easier access to the turbo.
1977: HP increase. 285 to 310 (available of 5 minutes)
1978: Introduced 24 volt electrics. Last year of fuel bladders (76 useable fuel).
1979: Wet wing fuel tanks 88 gal useable.
1986: last year of G model and Continental 520. Cessna took a hiatus from the 206 for 12 years.
1998: restarted the 206 line. Lycoming 540 powered. Smooth, nice AC, but about 150# heavier than previous G model (still with 3600# GW). Heavy weight and seat design is a disadvantage to utility. No individual 3rd row seats and they are a pain to remove vs the older style rail system.

77-79 looks like good years

Ours was an '84, & at first glance it had all the advantages of your list (above) without the UL decrease of 1998. Just curious, do you know of some negatives from '79 to '86?

Gary S.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Jul 2020, 08:00

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I thoroughly endorse Toms decision to get a 206.
That’s 2 dead elk baggage baby.

Anything for a friend. :cheers:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Jul 2020, 08:01

Username Protected wrote:

You should consider an A36. If you try one you might like it.

You might talk him into one

But I think he's already owned Two :thumbup:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Jul 2020, 08:19

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She helps me dismember them and carry them off the mountain. You’ll get nothin there.

I'm gonna reel her in. Kids are gonna make her do it. Within one year, she'll be vegan. I'll be coming up to fly the cub and the new 206

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Jul 2020, 08:43

Tom

One other option, if you like the plane you have.

There are 2 STC options to increase gross on a earlier 182 like yours and mine. One is a set of Wing-X extensions:

https://www.wingxstol.com/html/products.html

Get you up to 29850, relatively simply, remove wingtips, add the extensions, tips back on, paint. Dunno the going price these days, 20K or so is memory. I am sure someone in your NW part of the world does it, there is also a company near NOLA that does it. Much loved by the Seaplane folks.

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Second option, perhaps a bit more invasive but wings remain same length, is an STC held by an engineer from Kansas. I have the record somewhere, I talked to him a couple of years ago. Legit engineer, had a low UL 182, got an STC that as I recall adds some material to the ribs in the area of the strut attach points, took it up to 2950.

If you look at the parts manual, other than the gear change, that strut area is the only other real structural change when Cessna went from 2800 to 2950. I can dig up the STC info & probably the contact info for the 2nd STC if interested. I suspect Del could do it easily...

Like I said, if you like what you have...

RAS

Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Jul 2020, 08:47

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Elk eats grass, leaves, and bark. People eat elk. It's basically the same thing.

I tell people I'm a "Second Order Vegetarian" since I mostly eat vegetarians.

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Username Protected · **Posted:** 10 Jul 2020, 09:18

Tom, I just met a Fellow this winter, his Name is Mark
He just built a Brand new Hangar.......Stunning :bugeye:

I got to look at his Birds Up close a Month ago or so, and He has a Beautiful 210, a 182 skylane and a 206..............all of them are Pristine and all 1978 Models

Looked over the 206 pretty close, has some nice Garmin stuff, plane is Polished and Clean as a whistle :drool:

It's not turboed.

He also owns half a Citation, and just went partners with another fellow on a Carbon Cub :bugeye:

I asked him about the 206, if he'd sell it? He paused and said he might

Muttered something about Wifey :eek:

I asked him if he new what it was worth, and he said he had turned down over 200K for it :eek:

Checking on the Prices of the Newer ones...............Just Like Bonanzas.............I can see why they hold their Value.

If you'd like Me to I'll ask him again, I know these 206s are considered the workhorse (actually I think will haul a Horse :eek:

) of the Back country :clap: