Memories

Memories
Club Members Share Their Cessna 195 Memories


Benton, Kansas or Bust!

Lloyd Sorensen writes "This is the story of a perfect flying vacation. That is no weather, no hurry, no problems ... experienced in our 1948 Cessna 195 Businessliner jokingly crowned “The KING of IZA”."

When You Fly a Cessna 195
You Meet the Nicest People

Mike Larson writes "Since I have retired, Charmian and I have flown over a hundred hours around the country exercising the privileges of American life to it’s fullest."

One Golden Moment

Mal Shipton writes "Behind me to the west lay almost a thousand track miles already covered in the day...Ahead the last of the mountains surrendered to the coastal plain which in turn slid into the inky sea."

On the Way...

Mike and Charmian Larson's flying trip through Monument Valley, Zion National Park, the Reno Air Races, down the California coastline and ending at our Club's 2006 Fly-in in Santa Ynez, CA.

Tales of the 195

Mike Larson writes "I’ll never forget Bob Haskins throwing the keys to N3451V and telling me how much I was going to like this airplane. It didn’t start out that way!".

Around the USA in a Cessna 195

Jeff, Kathryn, Emily and Sarah Ward spent seven weeks flying their Cessna 195 across and around the USA visiting the Midwest, Dakotas, Big Sky Country, Yellowstone, Pacific Northwest, California, Grand Canyon, New Mexico, Kentucky and many stops between.

Mike and Charmian Larson's N8266R A 195 Story

Mike Larson writes "We would wander around the airport before class started and look at the Super Cub sprayers standing on their noses in the Quonset hangar...A little further down the line though, someone had parked a Cessna 195..."

View from Stillwater, OK Tower When Did You First Fall in Love...With the Cessna 190/195?

Coyle Schwab writes "The swooping tail, the blistered cowling. That tiny little windshield...That step that swung down when the door was opened...The sounds and sights of their startups. Well, these 195s just looked and sounded and smelled (and oozed) like real airplanes!"

Mac and Crew An Uncle's Gift Acknowledged

Mike Larson writes "I remember that cool fall day back in 1952 in Wichita, Kansas like it was yesterday. I was 6 years old and I had just been told I was going for my first ride in an airplane..."

N8266R Mike and Charmian Larson's N8266R

It was late in 1998 and things were going pretty well at the Larson household. I was talking to a friend who was looking for his own airplane. Tom wanted a Bonanza but I casually made the statement that I would rather have a Cessna 195.

Over Lake Champlain St. John's to Cabo San Lucas

Occasionally life presents the opportunity to do something very special. For Ron Gruner that opportunity came in the summer of 1991 when he flew his Cessna 195 from St.John's, Newfoundland, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

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