Trick question!!!

Trick question!!!

If you have some late Cessna 210 time, the Skymaster feels like part of the family. Feels heavy compared to the Bonanza certainly, but that is the trade-off for a plane that really hauls a load.

Without any critical engine issue with the Skymaster I am sure the extra cost associated with the lower production number "CR" engine would have been hard to justify. Not even sure how those dynamics would work in practice.

I don't think the Adam A500 did any different either.

The girl I was dating said that the 337 was "like when you saw someone with their shoes on backwards"
Always wondered about them but never got the chance to fly one.

TN

Me too, Tom. I have always found them curiously good looking but have never even sat in one. I remember well as a kid when I was at the Oxnard Airport in 1965. There was a Cessna dealer there who had a brand new Super Skymaster (white with red and black trim) on the ramp. I thought it was really cool.

My first solo flight was in one, a surplus O-2. That was also my first flight being paid, but that's another story and not relevant. Anyway, I flew my first ~90 solo hours in the mix-masher doing pipeline inspection and hauling boxes into bush strips. A dumb 19 year old kid didn't know any better, just figured that's how airplanes were. But I was at the tail end of using those things, maintenance was fed up with them and the last 2 were being phased out. I moved to flying the 310's and aztecs and it was an instant epiphany as to how poor a design the 337 really was.