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Cessna Cardinal C-177B C-GWNT C-GWNT is our aircraft. This 180hp ship is an excellent platform for our present business needs. The 2500lb gross weight--4 seat aircraft has cantilever wings (strutless), a constant speed prop, cowl flaps, wide-easy entry doors, as well as a sexy 45 degree windshield rake. C-GWNT is equipped with a Colour Skymap IIIC panel gps, an Apollo IFR GX-55 gps, a KI-209A indicator, a KX-155 nav/com, a KY-97 com, a KR-87 ADF, a GTX-327 transponder, Davtron M877 clock and a NAT AA0085 intercom. C-GWNT has flown across much of Canada, the United States including across the Rockies and Sierra Nevada's to Sacramento down to Florida, the Bahamas, over Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico to St. Martin in the Caribbean and back. It serves as an excellent platform in air search and rescue work for visual detection, electronic homing, communication air platform and air drops. It also serves as an excellent target aircraft in its work with the CC-130 Hercules aircraft out of 417 SQ out of Winnipeg in simulated intercept work.
C-GWNT at Grand Turk Roy Sobchuk--Friend/Speed Inventor/Designer
My friend Roy Sobchuk, a former college instructor and inventor, also flies a C177B. Roy originally introduced me to the Cardinal ship and sold me on the relative economy and design of the model. Roy is a generous and most knowledgeable pilot/owner of this aircraft--I call him one of the "3 kings" of the Cardinal in the world. His C-GRUD is absolutely pristine with full IFR avionics, HSI and a Strikefinder. Roy is the founder and designer of numerous approved speed mods including fancy pants, cowl mods, exhaust mods, tail mods and beautiful and unique NASA tested wingtips. These mods improve not only speed, but cooling efficiency and stability as well as make the Cardinal even more sleek. He works with Maple Leaf Aviation of Brandon (CYBR). The mods on C-GWNT have made the ship run cooler, more efficient and fly at greater speed without any compromises. Roy helps me tremendously in improving our GWNT. Truly, all dedicated owners become one with their airplanes and all strive to make improvements to their ship. It actually becomes more and more interesting as one works in the wee hours of the night to make an aircraft better. We are both lifetime members of the Brandon Flying Club. |
Contact Us at
c177b@mts.net
or call 204.759.2627
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