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I like aviation babble...this last weekend I actually pushed the 170 out of the hangar, washed it, and pulled out the seats in preparation for installing the new carpet. The battery was dead, but I hand-propped it and it fired up on the second blade, after sitting for a year. Airplane engines are amazing.
The C-145 runs on mogas, and I fuel it by hand with cans when it's at the home airport, then get 100LL when I stop elsewhere for fuel. The few times I've seen mogas for sale at an airport, it's been about the same price as 100LL. It seems like the engine runs a little cooler on 100LL.
I pencilled it out, and it looks like it's going to cost me $1 a mile to run the 170 this year, so I probably won't be putting on a lot of hours. I've been considering putting on a pitchier prop and some fairings to see if I can get a little better economy out of it, but I'm not sure coroplast and duct tape would hold up very well.
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