Considering a 337

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Before you get too far down this road you should thoroughly investigate what you are up against in insurance. A couple of Summers ago I let my daughter and son-in-law, both ATP's and airline pilots, have the Skymaster for several months.
Because my daughter has a few hundred hours in my airplane she was no problem

For my son-in-law, however, it was a different story. Despite his ATP, 14,000 hours TT including 2500 hours in a C-210, no violations and 4 stripes on his shoulders in the uniform of a major airline, the insurance company wanted him to have 25 hours dual in the Skymaster from an instructor who had 50 hours of dual given in the Skymaster. Totally ludicrous.

So please avoid disappointment and investigate this.

As an aside, I soloed at KOWD on Jan 22, 1956. But I managed to escape about a year-and-a-half later so can't provide any local knowledge.

Finally, while some aspects of the maintenance of the airplane are difficult it is NOT a "high maintenance" airplane.

Good luck.