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5 unusual facts about Cessna 210


Bruce Dalling

He owned his own aircraft, a Cessna 210 Centurion named "Charlie" and participated in sky-diving and was instrumental in establishing the Pietermaritzburg Parachute Club.

CDF Aviation Management Program

In the mid-1970s, CAL FIRE found that the contractor-owned air tactical planes, mostly single-engine Cessna 182s and Cessna 210s, did not provide the airspeed and safety needed for the new air tanker program.

Koolan Island

On 23 December 1984, a single-engined Cessna 210 aircraft, which had just taken off from the island en route to Broome, struck power lines and somersaulted.

Mount Dom Dom

Mount Dom Dom was the site of a plane crash involving a Cessna 210 aircraft on 18 June 1974 during stormy weather.

NearMap

NearMap speeds up this process by using their own engineered camera capture equipment, named a 'HyperPod', which is attached to Cessna 210 light aircraft, which fly at a high altitude, enabling entire cities to be captured in a day or two.


Don Yenko

Yenko, along with his three passengers, died in March 1987 while bringing his Cessna 210 in for a landing near Charleston, West Virginia.

GuardAir

The airline was founded in 1992 by Einar Rønnestad, and started with a Cessna 210 that it operated for the insurance company Storebrand to find stolen cars and boats.


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