First Start of the year after new paint Job

Just had my baby painted in Sault Ste Marie. She has been waiting for almost 7 months to run again. The plane has just come out of the paint booth and we started it up enjoying every second of it.

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[yabodmon]

whats the cost on fuel for one of these? , do they use regular gas? how many hours do you get out of a tank? thanks

[sdmcginn]

@yabodmon

I burn 76-80 litres per hour - she holds 358 litres, that would equal to 4.4 hours of flying- with half hour reserve, realistically looking at 3:50 hours:min, in which with no head wind I could approx. travel 320 kts (600km). I can burn AV Gas and Premium car gas that has no ethnol in it.

[cbarn360]

Beautiful plane! This is a 5 star video.

-cbarn360

[sdmcginn]

Thanks - be sure to see the other videos I posted. My favourite is my confined space one.

[Wateraddict1]

My favorite aircraft of all time . Beautiful airplane

[1961beaver]

Absolutely fantastic aircraft, one of the rare original non- stretched dhc-2 left. Amazing engine sound too.

[yabodmon]

@sdmcginn right on man so that plane wouldnt be all that good to go traveling with, id like to get my private pilot license and a float plane for the future! how did u manage to do it all ? thats one hell of a hobby. lucky to have !