Navions, and TWIN NAVIONs, are really cool

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Something about me loves twins. Just feels the way a plane "should"

It's well known here that the top of the list for me is the Aerostar, but the Velocity Twin, Aztec, T-Bone, are all up there

Anyway, there aren't many Navion Twins out there, allegedly there are less than 5 left flying in the world, but I recently started following Alex Praglowski's aviation YouTube vids. He's got a good little Navion Twin video up and actually goes up for a ride in one

To save you from the clickbait
-no near disasters
-no flashy Insta/FB graphics
-just a basic video with shots of a Canadian Twin Navion with some polite narration describing a bit about the plane (how many built, years, facts and figures, etc)

 
I wanted to swat his hands a few times for coming off of the throttles on the roll. :D
 
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I wanted to swat his hands a few times for coming off of the throttles on the roll. :D
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I noticed that too.. just figured they did things different in Canada. I wasn't a fan of his landings, no where near the center (or is it centre?) line!

Cool plane though, I honestly didn't think there were any left flying out there
 
Less than five is an exaggeration. But there weren’t that many to begin with. Every twin Navion was converted from a single. Originally they were converted based on a page of manufacturer's instructions. This allegedly led to the STC process. However, the two twin Navion styles each has a type certificate of its own. The American Navion Society owns one of them and the other is out in lala land (thankfully the clowns who own the single-engine type certificate do not have it).

You can tell the difference between the two styles by looking at the tail. The early Riley/Temco D17 twins built the larger vertical stab/rudder by taking a horizontal stab and elevator and mounting it vertically. It's kind of shaped like a pre-swept tail 182 fin. The Camair has what just appears to be a scaled up single engine tail (more trapezoidal in shape).

There are a few pictures around of ones going through the conversion that still have the center engine mounted making what appears to be a trimotor Navion. Those never flew.
 
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^allegedly a Beech 18 will be coming on line here mid November.. the rental rate is not cheap but damn
 
Got my Multi in the one below. Was working on my MEI when it was totaled in a hangar with straight line winds, Ennis, TX around 1985. Dad also had a disassembled Swift in the hangar and we never found one of the wings, best guess is that it is in the lake next to the airport. A one gallon can of hydraulic fluid was still on the slab where we placed it.

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Navion Customs is probably the best Navion restorer in the country. That is a nice looking plane.
 
Here's your chance:
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