Editor’s note: This is part three of an ongoing series about the author’s ‘colossal mistake.’ You can read part one here and part two here.
My friend Jared bought his Cessna 170 about a year before I found mine. He purchased a truly exquisite example that he located in Missouri and now keeps in Spokane, Washington. With museum-quality paint and interior, the airplane was legitimately indistinguishable from the day it rolled out of the factory.
