Hello All.

[markc]

I am new to this site, but not to the 337. I grew up flying 3rd row in the 70's.

Now thinking about getting one myself, or perhaps a Beech Duke. Not sure yet.

During this exercise of making up my mind, I've made a few maps -- as thats what I do for my other hobby. Hoping that the distribution by year would perhaps show a method to the madness.

I used the FAA aircraft registration db to make a map of 337's -- I've not shown the few that are in Europe with N numbers, and for some reason about 25 would not georegister. My apologies to those in Puerto Rico, who made up the majority of this number.

Hopefully this might be of interest to others, but as for myself I see no pattern outside of Florida -- excepting for registration addresses being concentrated in metropolitan areas.

Cheers,

Mark

[WebMaster]

Mark,
I think this is way cool.
Could you give us a list of owners around Chicago, for instance?

[SteveG]

It appears that Mark has just volunteered to be this site's Geographic Information System technician. In a GIS environment this entire data set could be queried by any field or combination of fields as in: List all owners located in the State of Florida having an aircraft of model year 1975 and newer or click on any state or zip code polygon to list all registrations within or better yet make the data interactive as well such that mousing over a registration point would display the entire data subset. Solicit pictures from the owners and hot link them to the registration data. Mine TAP, Controller, etc. for aircraft for sale allowing the query "list all aircraft for sale within 500 miles of Memphis". The possibilities are almost endless. I'll await further development, nice job so far.

[gkey]

Hi Mark,

I see your map spreads high enough to include the most populated part of Canada. I also see that your index on the side read "Skymasters" and not "US Skymasters".

Now, if you look at the border between Alberta and Saskatchewan, Cold Lake to be precise, please make a little red dot, just for me. ;>)

Thanks!

[markc]

If I could find the CA registration database I would plunk that in too. Wonder if thats public info ??

Cheers,

Mark

[gkey]

Yes, there is a register on the internet. Here is the link:
http://www.tc.gc.ca/aviation/activep...uicksearch.asp

All you gotta do, is to fill in the following:
Common Name: CESSNA
Model Name: 337
Leave the other fields open.

There are 83 337's active in Canada. In my view enough to warrant a fly-in somewhere picturesque (oh, the choices!) north of the border one day...just a suggestion (not a vote).

Oh, by the way, my 337 is a 1976, I guess that would make it a green dot, eh?