Cessna 180 For Sale

Alongside the amazingly durable and highly dependable Super Club and the Cessna 206 is the Cessna 180 and that completes the list of some of the best bush planes in the world. In fact, in Alaska, the Cessna 180 is considered as part of the vital backbone of a pilot’s bush equipment list. And one of the main advantages offered in the Cessna 180 series is the option to choose a small or large engine but using the same fundamental airframe, just like when one goes to Detroit (considered as the Motor City but sad to say, the car factories have now been transferred to China obviously due to the cheaper labor cost there)and chooses an automobile with the same body but with a different-sized engine. Some of the most basic parts of the Cessna 180 include the engine, fuselage, wings, control surfaces, the horizontal stabilizer, and the Cessna locking tailwheel as its main landing gear. Aside from all these, the Cessna 180 is designed with a carburetor Continental O-470-U engine running at an amazingly powerful 230 horsepower. But unlike the Cessna 180, the Cessna 185, an offshoot of the former, is powered by a fuel-injected Continental IO-520-D engine that has the force of 285 horsepower with an additional 300 roughly five minutes just after takeoff.

However, since the Cessna 180 has a well-built but small engine compared to the Cessna 185, it is more economical in terms of fuel burn and consumption.

So how does this figure in your flying aside form the obvious savings? Well, if you figure on a flight where refueling is simply impossible and unavailable and you would not be able to land to lift gallons of fuel as buffer and there are flights that may present this exact scenario like for instance the Canadian North west Territories, the Cessna 180 would be the most appropriate plane to fly because of its meager fuel consumption yet powerful engine. Or if the region that you will be flying into has low instrument meteorological conditions like for example Northern Canada and Alaska and in these kinds of flights, the Cessna 180 auxiliary fuel tank which adds 23 usable gallons of fuel will really play a very important role.

And it has been proven for so long that on the economical side, the Cessna 180 always wins and this is based on local area trips where the entire journey does not go over two hundred miles. Assuming that the Cessna 180 is flying with the standard weights including cabin volume and fuel weight which is by computation pegged at 180 pounds or less, the plane will consume fuel that will run $15 cheaper than other planes including the Cessna 185.

By: A. James David

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James David teaches people how to buy single engine airplanes & has a passion for the Cessna 180 For Sale