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Price: $169.95
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Cessna 310 Songbird Model Airplane: Crafted
with Care and Precision
Our Cessna 310 Songbird Model Airplane exhibits unmatched,
unequaled quality and intricate design to achieve exactness and
accuracy of the actual model. It also comes with a sturdy, durable
base stand which comes in different colors of your choice and a
polished chrome steel support mounting rod or avail our variable
pitch wall mount accessory.
Our Songbird Cessna 310 Model Plane is made of the finest
grade materials which underwent stages of meticulous and careful
sanding, carving and modeling to its original form. Our craftsmen
and artisans ensure finely handcrafted model airplanes with precise
blueprint details of the original aircraft. The Songbird Cessna 310
Model Plane's paint scheme, markings and parts are extremely
complete, reflecting the original Cessna 310 Songbird. This
top-quality Cessna models replica will surely mesmerize anyone who
receives this elegant desktop display as a gift. This Cessna Skyking
310 model plane is definitely the ideal gift to every aviation
enthusiast and avid aircraft collector, reviving the good, old
flight memories for it displays perfect resemblance to the actual
Cessna models.
Cessna 310 Songbird History:
Songbird, The - Twin-engine Cessna airplane known as the
"Songbird," flown by Skylar J. "Sky" King (Kirby Grant), "America's
Favorite Flying Cowboy" and the proprietor of the Flying Crown Ranch
on the western adventure SKY KING/NBC/ABC/1952-59. Sky, a former
WWII naval aviator tuned rancher, used his plane to patrol his
property and fight the bad guys who messed with his ranch and nearby
neighbors. The Songbird (I.D. #N87832 later #N5248A) was a Cessna
310-B with wing-tip tanks that provided fuel for more than a
thousand miles of air travel. It cruised an average speed of 210
mph. During the first season, Sky flew a Cessna T-50 Bobcat. The
Songbird was once referred as The Flaming Arrow in the 1952 episode
"Designing Woman." Assisting Sky was his niece, Penny King (Gloria
Winters); his nephew, Clipper (Ron Hagerthy); local Bob Carey
(Norman Ollestad); Jim Bell, the Flying Crown Ranch foreman (Chubby
Johnson) and the local sheriff Mitch Hargrove (Ewing Mitchell) from
the nearby town of Grover City, Arizona. In real life, Kirby Grant
had been an aviator who spent a WWII tour of duty as an Air Force
flight instructor. Aerial footage for the series was shot by Paul
Mantz, a one time advisor to Amelia Earhart. The SKY KING program
originated on radio where it ran from 1946 to 1954. Originally a
daily fifteen minute serial, by 1947 it had become a twice-weekly
thirty minute program sponsored by Peter Pan on ABC. It aired on
Mutual from 1950-1954. For more information on the Cessna aircraft
read Jane's Book of World Aircraft.
The Cessna 310 was designed by Cessna to use in World War II. The
Cessna 310 Song bird was the first twin engine aircraft that flew on
January 3, 1953. The new Cessna 310 Song Bird has very innovative
features such as an engine exhaust thrust, augmentor tubes and the
storage if all fuel in tip tanks in early models. The naming
conventions of the Cessna model were by adding a letter and so to
identify the changes to the original design. The Cessna 310C was one
of the most powerful produced Cessna which has 195 kW Continental
IO-470-D engines. In 1960 the Cessna 310D was released which
featured swept back vertical tail surfaces. For the Cessna 310 F, an
extra cabin window was added.
Numerous adjustments were made to the Cessna 310 Song Bird over
the years. Jack Riley produced two variants of Cessna 310 such as
the Riley Rocket 310 and the Riley Turbostream 310. The Riley Rocket
is said to be the highest performance civilian piston light twin in
existence. Cessna 310 Song bird has a lot of advantages over its
competitors.
The Cessna 310 can access short fields while carrying a large
useful load of 2000 pounds at the same time. Other competitive
planes produced under Cessna 310 were the Raytheon Baron, the Piper
Seneca and some models Aero Commander. As of last year, 2006, many
Cessna 310s were in operation in air taxi service world wide.
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