Restoring Ag-Cat #1 with Toby McPherson

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@RadioHamGuy Жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks for this video. I am familiar with this plane since my dad and other farmers had one and hired the pilots rom Hayti, MO. Sorry spelling might be wrong. I have a lot of stories from the 70s and 80s as a kid growing up around this plane and going out to flag for crop dusting and being all over this plane. Used to hear it every calm morning in the summer taking off and you could hear that engine for miles away when it took off. Lot of stories I could tell and them pilots were excellent some out of wwii. One crack up and one land down the hwy from mechanical problems.

@tgh223 6 ай бұрын

sad them old radials bout thing of the past

@juice1893 2 жыл бұрын

Great, very informative video. Makes it extra special, being the history behind it and the fact that this Ag-Cat is serial number #1. Would like to see the plane start-up and fly after the restoration is complete.

@oneninerniner3427 Жыл бұрын

Very nice! My Dad started out with Super Cubs then bought an early model open cockpit Agcat, not sure the exact model year it was, I want to say sixties. If I remember correctly he later put a cabin on it and it had a 275hp Jacobs. No idea why he got rid of it, but he was a Cessna dealer at the time and got a brand new Agwagon which a hired pilot promptly wrecked! He finished out his career with Pawnee's.

@martygallaher3365 Жыл бұрын

My grandparents farm was just a couple of miles from Dick Reade's MidContinent Aircraft Corp. Dad would hire Dick from time to time to spray our cotton or beans. So, it's possible this Ag-Cat flew over our farm. Once I asked Dick why he located in Hayti, MO. He said because a lot of cotton was grown around Hayti, and cotton needed to be sprayed a lot more than corn and he liked to fly. RIP my friend Dick Reade.

@tgh223 6 ай бұрын

i knew dick for many years me and a friend of mine flew a super cup to nebraska to pick up a pawnee for him back in the 80s