Each day, the team at Aircraft For Sale picks an airplane that catches our attention because it is unique, represents a good deal, or has other interesting qualities. You can read Aircraft For Sale: Today’s Top Pick at FLYINGMag.com daily.
Today’s Top Pick is a 1970 Cessna 337E Skymaster.
For generations, pilots who want an upgrade in performance and utility have turned to light twins. Compared with piston singles, twins often give the impression of much higher speeds and nearly unlimited load-lifting capacity.
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While these impressions may be more psychological than factual, it is true that twins generally do more of everything than singles.
The potential downside with twins is symmetric thrust during engine-out scenarios. Pilots train intensely for this possible emergency, but we are never sure how we will respond until it happens.
The aircraft for sale today was Cessna’s effort to ease pilots’ apprehension about getting into light twins. The 337 Skymaster series of aircraft are well known for their novel centerline thrust design, which eliminates the asymmetric thrust problem altogether. Pilots, meanwhile, can still enjoy the security of a second engine when flying long distances at night, over water or in other situations when decent options for a forced landing are few.
This 1970 Cessna Skymaster has 1,995 hours on the airframe with 257 hours since top overhaul on its front engine and 305 hours since top overhaul on the rear. The aircraft’s engines are 210 hp Continental IO-360s with 1,995 hours since new. Upgrades include MT three-blade propellers with 203 hours since new, manual cowl flap conversion, Horton STOL kit, and 128-gallon fuel capacity.
The panel includes a Garmin GMA 345 audio panel, GNS 420 GPS/nav/com, King KX 125 nav/com, and GTX 345 transponder with ADS-B In and Out.
Pilots looking for a long-distance, six-seat traveling aircraft with the added performance and redundancy of two engines should consider this 1970 Cessna 337E Skymaster, which is available for $105,000 on AircraftForSale.
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