We leveled off at 5,500 feet, I set the power, and we watched the Texas Hill Country slide by below us. The three of us, Tom Canavera and Gary Buchanan from Sierra Industries and I, were heading over to Gillespie County Airport in Fredericksburg to grab a bite to eat at the regionally famous and ubiquitously named Airport Diner. It was a relatively short jaunt from Sierra Industries’ headquarters in Uvalde, Texas, but it was long enough to let us get up to altitude and see the old 210 do what it does best: cruise in high style.
Except this felt more like a new 210 than an old one, if new 210s existed. With Sierra’s modification, which it calls the Super Centurion, you get to enjoy that style with many of the safety features and amenities that pilots today have come to expect, as well as some improvements to the original design that Cessna either never offered or never got quite right.
