Happy birthday Ol' Paint

I would assume it flew for the first time out of KCEA but I looked up former names of that airport and surrounding ones and came up with nothing. :dunno:
 
Two things came to mind when I read your first post on this thread...

1) Could that be a private Cessna runway/airport identifier from that era?
2) How is it possible that @Pilawt of all people wouldn't know the answer to this question? o_O :eek::D
 
Too bad they didn't type it. Is it Sierra Zero Romeo or Five Zero Romeo, Lockhart, TX?
 
I've never used the ICAO letters for my log entries, ever since I learned to fly in the early '70s. Always abbreviations ..."AUB" instead of "S50", "Arl" instead of "AWO," etc. Don't think it made a whole of of difference back then. Flight plans were something you told the FSS operator, not something you typed into three or four letter fields on a computer.

"SOR" is probably an internal company designator, like South Operations Ramp.

Ron Wanttaja
 
Pilawt said:
My trusty 172N took flight for the first time 43 years ago tomorrow. :)



Anybody know what the "SOR" refers to? I can't find an airport with that identifier. I thought 172s were built at Independence KS?
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Mines a Christmas baby! First flight shows 12-23-77.
 
Pilawt said:
Mystery solved. A poster on the Cessna 172 Club message board said “SOR” was the old identifier for Strother Field (now WLD), where Skyhawks were hatched in those days.
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I'll bet that information gets archived on one of the upper, ladder-access-only shelves in the library. ;)
 
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