Cessna 152 [Filler]

ID’ed by a former student* (from a 100-level economics course for non-majors) who is now married to an American Airlines pilot (who just made captain👍).

This display is at the airport (MDH) where SIU trains its Aviation Flight students and where Clare and I had our late lunch recently.

I contacted my former student for an ID because I was curious how much the plane might weigh, to be mounted on a post like this. Empty weight: 1,081 lb. Perhaps for display the engine has been removed?
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Converted to black-and-white as it was a very dreary day and the January garden didn’t add any color.

My former student followed up: her husband “pointed out that the tail number is no longer allowed due to the I and 1 being too easily confused.” Makes sense. On that topic, I greatly appreciate that my password manager has a password generator with a box to tick for “Avoid ambiguous characters”!

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* My favorite former student.

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Looking back
  1 year ago: “The thoughtfulness of friends”
 2 years ago: No post
 3 years ago: No post
 4 years ago: No post
 5 years ago: “Golden Barrel”
 6 years ago: “Another ice storm shot [Filler #30]”
 7 years ago: “Expected time for a home repair? Multiply by 4.”
 8 years ago: “Plant genus Musa”
 9 years ago: “Phalaenopsis ‘Brandy Parfait’”
10 years ago: “Sunset [SOOC]”
11 years ago: “Thank you, Shells!”
12 years ago: “A ‘Stro-burst’?”

[GaryW]

Really neat display!

[Danette Thompson]

Cool display

[Mags]

Turned out to be a great conversion!

[Thom Mitchell]

@thewatersphotos @danette @marlboromaam My former student saw the post and replied that her husband “pointed out that the tail number is no longer allowed due to the I and 1 being too easily confused.”