what do you think of this 337 for sale?

[mshac]

Originally Posted by phlgsse

Island hopping with 2 of us and a dog or two. There's a pretty nice aztec up for sale but he wants 85k and I think insurance will be even worse on an aztec

The 337 fits your mission profile to a "T". The question is, does this 337 fit your wallet, and your expectations?

The easy entry of the clamshell door runs circles around loading women, children, and animals up over the wing! My elderly mother was badly injured when she mis-stepped coming onto the wing to board on my Bonanza! This would NEVER happen on a 337! The cabin of the 337 is the roomiest, with the best visibility, of any light twin.

Cessna actually got quite a bit right with the 337.

The new electric airplane company (I forget the name) is putting 337's into airline service between the islands - if that's not an endorsement, I don't know what is!

[phlgsse]

Originally Posted by mshac

The 337 fits your mission profile to a "T". The question is, does this 337 fit your wallet, and your expectations?

Performance and payload are fine. I can't go more than 200nm anywhere anyway unless I want to island hop to nz, which a 337 doesn't have the legs for

Maintenance is a whole other thing here. Getting parts here and the cost to get them here is unreal. Need a windscreen? Sure, $700 for the part and 1k to ship it

[phlgsse]

Oh and I haven't regularly flown a multi since about 2000. I flew a 310 once this summer. Lol

[mshac]

The Skymaster is like flying a single with two engines. If you can get over the awe factor of having six levers in your hands, you'll soon realize it responds like a big single engine. The pitch is heavy, and the aircraft is very stable. Lose an engine, lose some airspeed. Feather the inop engine, and continue your flight. In a Skymaster, an engine-out is not an "emergency", its an inconvenience.

[mshac]

The panel is state of the art - for 1985. It does have a modern Garmin transponder, but that's about it for anything on the plane made after 1990.

[phlgsse]

Originally Posted by mshac

The panel is state of the art - for 1985. It does have a modern Garmin transponder, but that's about it for anything on the plane made after 1990.

Yep. And those collins radios are junk, imo.
The bright side is I just don't fly ifr, so thank God it's got deice boots. In hawaii.

[mshac]

Originally Posted by phlgsse

Yep. And those collins radios are junk, imo.
The bright side is I just don't fly ifr, so thank God it's got deice boots. In hawaii.

Hey at least the owner paid good money for all those aircraft canopy and prop covers! That's over a $1000 worth of merch right there!

The pics from 2007 show a Magellan 5000 GPS at the top of the stack. Its obviously been removed (no great loss), but that means you should have plenty of room to add a panel mount GPS down the road, if needed. Or lose the Collins nav coms and drop in a GTN750.

EDIT: I just noticed no autopilot installed. That will help your useful load, but hurts resale value. I'd be leary of putting too much $$$ in the panel, when the engines are high-time, and there's not an autopilot. The pool of potential buyers starts to become limited. If you plan to stay VFR, I'd probably fly it exactly as-is, and use a good portable ADS-B In solution along with a quality tablet EFB like Foreflight, Wing-X, Pilot, or Avare (for the cheapos amongst us - its 100% free).

I flew a Cessna 150J all over the continental US with a flybuddy GPS (bearing, distance & groundspeed only) and an KX170B. I shot ILS and VOR approaches with ease. I filed IFR most of the time just for the experience, and this was with no moving map (except the paper one in my lap thats trying to blow out the window - LOL). So you should be golden with a good tablet based GPS.