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| Joined: May 2009 Posts: 4,512 Likes: 355 Member/2500+posts | Member/2500+posts Joined: May 2009 Posts: 4,512 Likes: 355 | My seats need reupholstering, and I'd like to avoid the considerable down time it would entail. If anyone has an old but serviceable seat I could buy, I could send one of mine out at a time and use the purchased one in the interim. Or, if I can get one with a good frame but shot upholstery, I could send it out for reupholstering and replace one of mine with it.
Thanks,
Roy
States where I've landed my 150 | | | | Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 5,173 Likes: 242 Member/5000+posts! | Member/5000+posts! Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 5,173 Likes: 242 | Roy, Can you use the co-pilot seat out of a C150M? I bought one to keep flying when I sent my seats out. Took a few landings to get use to the co=pilot side.
Terry
Good wife, good friends & a Cessna 150. Life is good. Terry Monday 1976 C150M N9463U Greenville, NC
| | | | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 1,246 Likes: 179 Member/1000+posts | Member/1000+posts Joined: May 2004 Posts: 1,246 Likes: 179 | Would anyone on your field be willing to lend you one of their seats while yours are being redone? Many either don’t fly this time of year or they don’t have the time.
Eric Olson Portland, OR N7165F 1966 Cessna C-150F Troutdale, OR (KTTD) Hangar C1 John 14:21
| | | | Joined: May 2009 Posts: 4,512 Likes: 355 Member/2500+posts | Member/2500+posts Joined: May 2009 Posts: 4,512 Likes: 355 | Thanks for the responses. I apologize for not doing my homework before posting.
The first thing I discovered (by my belated research, and inferred from Terry's response) is that the right and left seats are somehow different. And the second is that the seats used in my G model have the same part number as several earlier models but different from ones starting just one or two models later. So what I really need is a seat (preferably left side) from something with S/N 15060773 - 15067198. Left seat is P/N 0400118-65 and right seat is -66.
Thanks for the suggestion, Eric. Although I've kept my plane at the same field for about 15 years, I know only a few other pilots there, none of which fly a 150, and the rentals are later models. But I have seen a couple of other 150s there, so I'll ask around.
Roy
States where I've landed my 150 | | | | Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 5,173 Likes: 242 Member/5000+posts! | Member/5000+posts! Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 5,173 Likes: 242 | I looked online and call parts shops for about two months before I was able to find a co-pilot seat. I found two different co-pilot seats. One was in very bad shape and the one I ended up buying is in ok but not great shape. I could not find a pilot seat anywhere.
To be honest I probably overpaid for the seat, $475 plus shipping. But it let me fly the 7 months while my seats were being re-upholstered.
I would be glad to loan anyone the seat who needs it while their seats are being done. But it is a CO-PILOT seat. Would just ask freight there and back.
And yep there is a difference. And I am not sure it will fit earlier models. Don't know if the bowing out of the cabin made a difference.
Terry
PS: New seats are great. Much much better. Tennessee Wings.
Last edited by Terry Monday; 01/03/25 10:32 PM.
Good wife, good friends & a Cessna 150. Life is good. Terry Monday 1976 C150M N9463U Greenville, NC
| | | | Joined: May 2009 Posts: 4,512 Likes: 355 Member/2500+posts | Member/2500+posts Joined: May 2009 Posts: 4,512 Likes: 355 | The G model is the first one with the bowed out cabin, so that's not the reason for the difference in part numbers between our models. Maybe my mechanic or the one on my field might know what the difference is between the G seats and ones for later models.
Roy
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