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Naw....it's the club. I still hang out with this bunch of hoodlums, but moved to a Cardinal, now to a Cherokee 180.

(they still let me show up at gatherings as long as I where a 150 club t-shirt and park the Cherokee behind the hangars).

"Page Traffic, flight of 8 Cessna 150's and another airplane, departing to the NE" (Quote from 2007 Page trip).

All I can say is, If you have to ask you wouldn't understand.
John KLWM

I can own it without partners, it costs way less to insure than my car. You can fill the fuel tanks and fly her around without a second morgage. Most every A&P has worked on them, so it's not a struggle to get repaired. Great folks here make it that much better.

We can afford it! That is #1. They can be inexpensive to purchase. Reliable and fairly inexpensive to maintain. Comparatively inexpensive to operate. They are an honest airplane. no handling surprises. An excellent airplane for two people. In addition, the later 150's have ample baggage room for light camping needs. They are a not too bad of a cross country airplane, if not in a hurry. Perform reasonably well at, or sometimes over, maximum gross weight.

Bill
Grants Pass, Oregon

And, when it's five degrees outside, them climb like scared cats!

Sprightly....?

It is fun to get the pilots of four seaters ranting about the price of gas! I had fun with this with the owner of a Skymaster recently.

There is a lot of snob appeal to owning and flying a 150/152. Come on guys before you split your sides laughing about 150/152 snob appeal think about it.

There are:
over 300,000,000 people in the U S A, Only 2% of them are pilots.
612,000 licensed airplane pilots.
• 244,000 have private pilot’s licenses.
• 121,000 are licensed to fly commercial aircraft.
• 145,000 are licensed to fly air transport planes.
• 34,000 are women. There
• 87,000 are student pilots.
There are:
224,000 active general aviation aircraft; one for every 1344 people
250,851,833 privet automobiles in the U S A; one for every 1.2 people

That’s pretty exclusive club isn’t it?

I don’t know the number of active 150/152 but it is a relatively small part of the total general aviation fleet. Also, another pretty exclusive group.

A 150/152 is a real airplane that does best what a pilot needs; it lets him fly. It is not real bit, it isn’t real fast, it doesn’t climb all that fast or high, it doesn’t carry all that much load but boy o boy does it fly. And, it is easy to fly. It will take you long distances; it will let you see things up close and personal. It will cleanse your soul. I won’t eat you out of house and home and it is as dependable an airplane as there is in the sky.

You can watch those guys with there 200-300 HP and many-motor airplanes go storming around with money falling out of every crack and cranny and feel sorry for them. They may be flying but in a 150/152 you are REALLY flying, as it was meant to be.

Best of all as a member of the Cessna 150-152 Club you have a big, happy, loving family. And like any other family they will share your joy and sorrow and if you are in a jam or just need some advice they will be there for you.

Hi Wayne, you really summed it up there. A few weeks ago my CFI (172 for training, Piper Archer personal airplane.) made a comment about my maybe being "stuck" flying a 150 for the rest of my life. My response, IT FLIES! And I sure wouldn't use the term stuck. It is one Sweet airplane, to me better than the 172 in nearly every way.
It really pi**es me off when people speak of "real" airplanes, meaning jets, big transport airplanes etc and "toys", meaning most general aviation aircraft. To me, and to you too obviously, flight in this type of airplane is "pure" flight, raw and real.
Joanne