I used to watch a Sky King every Saturday morning. Those were the days.
@slice51
3 жыл бұрын
OMG! I loved that show when I was a kid. I want one of those!!!
@harrisonchevy4452
3 жыл бұрын
I loved 🥰 Sky King and watched it everyday when I a kid 👦 too. Wish I could see her take off and fly now.
@whaheydelee
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah man, my mom would cook up a huge bacon sandwich with tons of mayo on toast with a tall glass of milk. Those were the days when that type of stuff was good for you.
@DommoPA
Жыл бұрын
A much better time
@philkearny5587
3 жыл бұрын
Sky King and Whirlybirds was my Saturday morning fare. My dad was in the Air Force and my uncle was with the FAA.
@rsprockets7846
2 жыл бұрын
RESCUE 8 MINE AND DOBIE GILLIS AND LOVE THAT BOB
@robertingram901
9 жыл бұрын
When I was 5, all the other kids were watching cartoons. I was watching Sky King. Even at that age, I thought the Songbird was the most beautiful machine to ever exist and knew someday I'd have one. I was about 40 when I located a 1959 C310 in Arizona. I got my multi-engine rating in it and flew it for about 140 hours. I traded it in on a '79 182RG. I still miss it!!!
@DrTom1946
2 жыл бұрын
We do too, for you...and us!
@timtrottproductions
8 жыл бұрын
Jon, we thank you for preserving this part of aviation's history.
@MrStoney61
11 жыл бұрын
Now that is what I call a REAL airplane; round engines and a tail wheel. Thanks for posting.
@teeembeee
6 жыл бұрын
Did not miss an episode. Many years later I was to become an Air Force pilot.
@HyperJoe
3 жыл бұрын
I don't remember the T-50, what a beast of an Airplane and a beautiful Plane at that! I do remember later on when they used the Cessna 310, that's what I loved, and Gloria Winters "Penny" well I think everyone agrees she was a perfect Choice for the Part, what a real Sweetheart.. Loved that show, still watch it occasionally, just for Old Times sake! 👍🤠
@alienhuman
8 жыл бұрын
"I remember being buck tooth and skinny... writing fan letters to Sky's niece Penny" Jimmy Buffett
@brucemckelvy9920
3 жыл бұрын
And here I thought Penny was only answering my letters to her. :-)
@ctranger
11 жыл бұрын
Beautiful! Just great to see the Songbird once again in all her glory in color.
@user-uc7jd7os2s
2 ай бұрын
Im 66 now. It was popular every Saturday morning. This wetted my appetite for Aviation History . Still love to watch Sky King on KZitem now .
@gerace007
6 жыл бұрын
One of the little known facts of the show is that on the radio version, Earl Nightingale the famous voice actor was the main voice of Sky King. He went on to a world famous career voicing all manner of work.
@roberthouston8463
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for 😉 Sharing this ❤️
@erikaostlund5229
10 жыл бұрын
I grew up to Sky King on the TV; Always thought Penny was pretty cool. Mom was the bean-counter for an FBO at one of the small reliever airports near MSP. I was lucky enough to fly with my Dad all over the country delivering planes for the FBO. I got away from it until my twenties and in 85 I was flying a 310Q for a living on night cancelled check runs. Then the company received E18S Super Twin Beeches. I would like to get back to recreational flying someday. Thanks for the video. It looks mighty sweet. You're right, tail wheels are where it's at. EvT
@terrybelz8879
6 жыл бұрын
Erika Ostlund z
@stepheng1082
3 жыл бұрын
Watched every Saturday morning. The reason I became an airplane nut. Ended up with just Private with Instrument rating.
@quickdrawmcdraw7645
8 жыл бұрын
I had a crush on Penny, when I was a little kid. A few years later, Kirby Grant, was at a state fair. The Songbird was there also. I had a chance to sit in the cockpit. Right then, I decided to be a pilot. One of my uncles was in the air force. I enlisted at 18, right out of high school.
@bobshaw4063
6 жыл бұрын
WOW how lucky you were to sit in the Song Bird cock pit . Did you luck out and get to be an Air Force Pilot? If so what rank did you get up to and what birds did you fly & like the best? Thank You for your service Sir. Fellow Air Force Veteran are retired Air Force?
@flydadj
10 жыл бұрын
This is where I decided to be a pilot! A job I concluded many years ago!
@williambennett2031
3 жыл бұрын
I watched sky King always . Later in life I took my flying lessons and Got my license. Thanks Sky .....
@janwilliams178
3 жыл бұрын
Back when I was a kid I can remember a commercial that said Sky King brought to you by Nabisco that make me want cookies.
@harrisonmantooth3647
3 жыл бұрын
jan williams ; Lorna Doon, Chips Ahoy and, Fig Newton's. I used to beg mom for these cookies.
@smooches1368
2 ай бұрын
I became enthralled with flying by the time I was 11 thanks to Sky King and learned to fly at 18. I built flying models and colledcted pictures and books, of which I have reams. At 49 I took up flying gliders, I couldn't stay away. His first seasons' Cessna T-50 (or the UC 78) is one of my all time favorites with its big radial engines and WWII cowlings. Look him up on Wikipedia and you'll find that the actor who played Sky's nephew, Clipper, Ron Hagerty, is still alive at 92. I❤airplane noise.
@chrisnzella
4 жыл бұрын
Had a schoolboy crush on Penny. The Songbird was a close second.
@signmanbob3834
6 жыл бұрын
Darn, that airplane didn't look that old when I watched Sky King as a kid.
@josephdragan7734
3 жыл бұрын
Cause it wasn't :) I know how ya feel
@tenpiloto
3 жыл бұрын
In later years it was a Cessna 310.
@rattmann36863
10 жыл бұрын
Sky King was one of my "will not miss" shows when I was a little fellow.
@bobshaw4063
6 жыл бұрын
My siblings & I use to love watching this TV show also as well .
@pixamite1
4 жыл бұрын
Richard Mann Sky King and Ripcord were my two must see shows when I was a kid.
@Mynamesalexa
4 жыл бұрын
Out of the blue of the Western sky comes: SKY KING!
@dragonmeddler2152
6 жыл бұрын
Loved this show! Later in life, as a pilot, I recall Sky never bothered to preflight his airplane. He'd get a call from the sheriff and go running from the kitchen table out to his trusty Cessna and be airborne in less than ten seconds. Ahh, Hollywood.
@RockerWasRight
7 жыл бұрын
Loved that show.............. Out of the clear blue western sky!!!! Sky Kingggggggggg! Old man was a Liberator Bombardier and we lived next to Friendship Intl, OFTEN went to the Observation Deck and drooled! Later they had a old B-25 and a Italian cargo twin, we kids snuck under the fence and played Sky King!
@mrlaursen711
12 жыл бұрын
I would love to see this; it's sad when a piece of our childhood is gone forever.
@ParkerPlaza
7 жыл бұрын
Never missed a show. .
@THISISBS55
10 жыл бұрын
Was "must see Tv" when I was a kid
@jameswsomers
3 жыл бұрын
I always liked the Bobcat over the 310.
@handy335
12 жыл бұрын
I am GREEN with envy! Kirby was my hero! Like you, I never missed an episode. I later became a pilot and have loved flying ever since. I was most pleased to get to go to Apple Valley, CA where most of the flying scenes where shot. The old airport is gone and has been replaced by a new one. The old one is now a shopping center. However, across the street is the old motel where the cast used to stay. They would taxi from the airport across the (regular) street to the motel! How cool is that?!
@skynyrdfan5298
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah I went by the Flying Crown Ranch the other day ( its still there) and they were having believe it or not a Garage sale in front of the house.didn't look like there were many buyer around though . It doesn't look the same , The facade has been changed and even it looks old already. The original chimney is still there.,But no Song Bird out front any more. Its just not the same Its now Rancherias Road where it used to set for the ranch scenes. and across the road , is The Apple Valley Golf Course, and down Tomahaw road directly across from the Ranch about 4 houses down is the Ramblin Rose Ranch .Another famous House ( Roy Rogers and Dale Evans lived there , I think its pending sale now.. No Flying Crown Ranch Sign, They should have left that up..and If I owned it I would put the Orignal Facade back , I like it much better than the Way it looks now.. Oh well Keep flyin Sky!!
@toddy2519
7 жыл бұрын
Wow...the old SongBird (Bamboo Bomber)! Haven't seen her since I was a kid, long before color television!
@bobshaw4063
6 жыл бұрын
Yes I remember it was in blaCK & white .
@otiscanupp1164
3 жыл бұрын
It was my favorite program as a child and inspired me to become a pilot..And eventually oun a Cessna 310 D aircraft
@wn6904k
6 жыл бұрын
Loved Sky King......................!!!!!
@joehenning7880
10 жыл бұрын
Hi Jon, it was nice to meet you today and see your plane. My husband remembered the show Sky King from his childhood. We loved the video and I told my husband about your new idea for the next one. Take care, Charlene (Fire Extinguisher lady)
@skykingjon
11 жыл бұрын
Yes for the last 54 Years Songbird keeps flying
@bradtinkham2540
6 жыл бұрын
The T50 was officially the Bobcat although we called it the "bamboo bomber"
@johnkelinske1449
3 жыл бұрын
Also called UC-78 and Crane to the Canadians.
@allen480
Жыл бұрын
@@johnkelinske1449 Eh?
@GreyEagle42
3 жыл бұрын
I got my MEL rating in a T-50/UC-78 early in 1961 at the University of Illinois, Institute of Aviation.
@bjbinmke
2 ай бұрын
I had no idea such an airplane even existed, much less that it was Sky King's airplane. I started watching the show only after he started flying the classic Ce-310.
@trainliker100
3 жыл бұрын
A ranch, a hero rancher, the west, a plane, a pretty girl - what's not to like.
@mrlaursen711
12 жыл бұрын
Kirby Grant was a friend of the family - I have photos of him holding me as a little girl. I never missed an episode. :)
@rsprockets7846
2 жыл бұрын
SAD FACT HE WAS KILLED IN A MVA IN FLORIDA GOING BACK FROM A EARLY SHUTTLE LAUNCH
@JohnSmith-oj6ir
3 жыл бұрын
I loved Sky King when I was a kid in the fifties. Any crime that occurred within 300 yards of an open field or a landing strip, you could count on Schuyler King and his niece, Penny, to swoop in aboard the Songbird and take care of it.
@ljackso
12 жыл бұрын
I loved Sky King as a kid! We nee more TV like that.
@bobshaw4063
6 жыл бұрын
I agree instead of all the crappy TV shows that are on now.
@1planenut62
12 жыл бұрын
Love hearing those roung engines! Beautiful bird.
@DAILEYericCaryUSA
12 жыл бұрын
It's a beautiful thing. Thank you for sharing this with us. Wow.
@pilot3016
3 жыл бұрын
Is that the actual original "Song Bird"? If so.. WOW! They were also nicknamed..The Bamboo Bomber
@MRRice-wz3bv
3 жыл бұрын
Yes good to see Songbird flying. Do missed that t.v. series.
@Conn653
2 жыл бұрын
Herman Brown and Kirby Hoon Jr were in the Navy together. Herman named his airport, on the north side of Terre Haute, Indiana, Sky King Airport. Named after the character his friend played on TV. His friend was Kirby Grant Hoon Jr., TV name shortened to Kirby Grant, the lead actor in the TV series Sky King. Herman Brown gave me my Commercial Pilot check ride in 1972.
@intrepid5144
3 жыл бұрын
I so preferred this "Songbird" plane than the later, more modern one he replaced it with!
@skykingjon
11 жыл бұрын
HI LouisI see you live in Germany, on your comment, Sorry for your erronious information entry. When you come to the USA and Seattle Washington you can see the T-50 SONGBIRD & LOG BOOKs and all Documents.for over 55 years that we have owned her. Jon
@GaryMCurran
6 жыл бұрын
Hey Jon, next time I'm coming up 167, can I pull off for Auburn and come see her? :)
@Siren851
6 жыл бұрын
I listened to Sky King on the radio. He came on around supertime. Vic M.
@blenkimcclapper7073
3 жыл бұрын
that's a great story I too watched that show and never missed an episode
@johnwilliams640
2 жыл бұрын
Evertime i hear a plane that sounds like this one passing over my house. I always say. Out of the Western sky comes Skyline. I can't help myself from saying it. lol
@tsmgguy
3 жыл бұрын
N53378, a 1943 Cessna T-50 Bobcat, is still registered in Auburn, Washington, USA.
@N5258Q
11 жыл бұрын
No this is not one of the original "Song Bird". The Songbird T-50 that was used in the opening, parked the field at the "Flying Crown Ranch" and some fly bys had a mishap several years after the show. It was scrapped for parts over the years. The original door, only known thing left used on that T-50 is sitting in a barn out west hanging on the wall. The other T-50 have just faded away. One was only the cockpit area and one was just the wing and fuselage when they would climb into it.
@skykingjon
11 жыл бұрын
Mark;FYI all (4) cessna T-50 songbirds use N67832 to match the stock canned footage, Thats movie making, You cant have Kirby flying (4( Differant "N" numbered songbirds, Some 12 year would catch that. Thanks for your interest. Jon..
@handy335
12 жыл бұрын
Yep. It's the real deal. You can hear the two Jacobs radials singing their song to round engine lovers everywhere.
@caroltenge5147
6 жыл бұрын
the song is "take the bus"!
@koroba01
3 жыл бұрын
Yep, “round sound”...
@ronfillmore281
5 жыл бұрын
The T-50 had a notorious flaw. The main spar was wood, as were many aircraft of that era. It was prone to rot. As I recall, it also had a fabric wing.
@michaelmcmurtrey8543
2 жыл бұрын
One of the popular modifications by post-WW II civilian owners was to install seaplane drain grommets on the underside of the wing’s center section to help prevent wood rot. And the airplane was almost entirely fabric covered except for the nose cap, cowlings, and nacelles. The fuselage had a steel tubing frame, but the spars were spruce and ribs were laminated plywood.
@phillipzx3754
3 жыл бұрын
My guess is more guys fell in love with the 310 (or Penny :-) ) than the t-50.
@airmuseum
7 жыл бұрын
We called them a "Bamboo Bomber". Wood and fabric construction...non feathering props....If you lost one...you shut the other one down and made a glider out of it.
@davem5333
6 жыл бұрын
airmuseum Also referred to as "Rhapsody in Glue ".
@wpreddog54
12 жыл бұрын
I have an autographed picture of Kirby standing standing next to a turbo charged Songbird.
@glenwalls2685
3 жыл бұрын
In 1975-1976, I was stationed at an Air Base in Michigan. I was having some body work done on a car and happened to notice some aircraft parts in the rafters above the shop floor. On inquiry I was told they were the wings and tail surfaces of a Cessna Bobcat.
@caduf123
13 жыл бұрын
Hi Jon; Thats a cool video, It a beautiful looking aircraft, I remember growing up w/ Sky King
@robertnorris1469
5 жыл бұрын
Brought to you by Nabisco .
@stevebrewer1720
3 жыл бұрын
Great show back in the day!
@mustangmooney21
9 жыл бұрын
Beautiful piece of history. I enjoyed watching the video!
@vet6822
6 жыл бұрын
I still watch the reruns.
@skykingjon
11 жыл бұрын
OK Lee,In 1957 the 1958 310-B replaced the Cessna T-50, Handling on the ground is easy with (2) engine for differantal control and a touch of brake you can turn on a Dime "180" and if you have a little tail drager time in a twin, DC-3, D-18 or T-50 you would never go back to TR-Gear. Thanks Lee from MKE. Jon
@NATES84
3 жыл бұрын
We bought one of those in 87 and the logbook was then stolen from it .It proved to have a cracked main wood spar.How much we lost on that I do not now but it was a disaster.
@tedecker3792
3 жыл бұрын
My friend’s dad would load us kids into his Renault Dauphine every Saturday and haul us to the theater for the matinee. Sky king, cartoons, etc. I can almost taste the milk duds!
@markrobbins9552
3 жыл бұрын
Ted, bet you have a hard time finding someone who knows what a Dauphine is. We had one for awhile.
@tedecker3792
3 жыл бұрын
Mark Robbins 1957 foreign cars were pretty scarce in South Dakota!
@tedecker3792
3 жыл бұрын
My friend went on to be CEO of a Fortune 500 company!
@markrobbins9552
3 жыл бұрын
@@tedecker3792 we also had a Simca 1000 and a Peugeot which in the early 60's almost no one ever heard of. My father had a thing for offbeat cars.
@BobReinheimer
3 жыл бұрын
EVERY Saturday. And then there was Penny! And Sheriff Hargrove. Great stuff.
@aeroliner750
5 жыл бұрын
My first favorite plane out of the clear blue Western sky comes sky king
@tenpiloto
3 жыл бұрын
In the last few years of the show it was a Cessna 310
@clearspan11
13 жыл бұрын
Jon, That's mighty spiffy. I'd like to see more of your "home" movies. Greetings from the great white north.
@artd.
6 жыл бұрын
I grew up on Sky King. It was a must see every Saturday. He is the reason this Oklahoma country Boy learned to fly. 67 years old and still flying. Had to do all of my chores, then had to hall it home to watch. Do they have a WEB site with photos?
@GaryMCurran
6 жыл бұрын
www.skyking.com/
@craigwall9536
3 жыл бұрын
Good God- it looks like ME pulling those chocks!
@1davekent
11 жыл бұрын
Hi Jon! I haven't seen the Songbird taxi since the T-50 flyby at Oshkosh 1989. Simply beautiful! Was this at Auburn? Also, so sorry I haven't been by the Type Tent the last couple of years to see you--hope you made it this year. Remember the book on Chicago Midway Airport I mentioned back in 2002? It's published! Please finish your book about Sky, Penny, Mitch, Jim, Clipper and all the Songbirds, and may the T-50 fly forever! God bless you my friend.
@cmoore185
10 жыл бұрын
There are some of the old shows on you tube. I watched the wild man today.
@HondaGoldwingGL1800
3 жыл бұрын
I watched the show as a kid because we were an aviation family, but I thought the "Song-Bird" was an early model Cessna 310. I dont remember this plane at all.
@bunkie2100
3 жыл бұрын
As I understand it. The T50 was the first Songbirfd and the 310 was the second.
@jim874
2 жыл бұрын
Then you're too young then. The T-50 was first, before the 310
@geegeetwo1
11 жыл бұрын
Penny, Clpper and Uncle Jim would be proud.
@Pilotc180
Жыл бұрын
Out of the western sky comes Skyking, brought to you by Nabisco
@steves259
3 жыл бұрын
I remember the Songbird having a twin tail design, more likely a Beech 18 rather than the T50.
@michaelmcmurtrey8543
2 жыл бұрын
Nope. A Lockheed Electra Jr. was used in one episode as the “bad guys’” airplane, and an Electra played a USAF airplane. Both those had twin tails. Neither Songbirds had twin tails. I have complete FAA files on all the aircraft used in the series save one, a Culver Cadet.
@skykingjon
11 жыл бұрын
T-50 Cessna Songbirds Didnt have wing tip tanks, Cessna 1958 310 B Songbird last one used Did.
@donaldparlettjr3295
3 жыл бұрын
Is the original bird still around? The wood wing was the Achilles heel for this bird hence its WW2 name "Bamboo Bomber". My friend had a military one til some nut ground looped it and crashed it. The interior was so roomy and the sound of those round motors can't be beat.
@rorylovelace7151
5 жыл бұрын
The "Bamboo Bomber?"
@amateurphilosopher
11 жыл бұрын
It's so nice to see this plane in such good shape. Is it still airworthy?
@billmorris2613
3 жыл бұрын
Good morning from SE Louisiana 31 Mar 21.
@rayunseitig6367
11 жыл бұрын
nice.
@flybouy11
3 жыл бұрын
Penny was a cutie. I liked the Cessna 310 better.
@mustangmooney21
12 жыл бұрын
Nice plane! Would have been neet to see her take off and do a fly by.
@dougiequick1
5 жыл бұрын
Sky King was one of the few human acted TV shows I enjoyed as a tyke...well along with Superman and later on "Combat!" ....It was the dang plane that l loved ...But similar things without a plane? Like Lone Ranger etc? Yawn ....I'd just a soon watch cartoons....but that PLANE! Just captured my imagination!
@billbye2427
3 жыл бұрын
oh lord, a twin engine tail dragger.....from Wichita, Ks.
@billgarnett388
10 жыл бұрын
Looks good. Does it fly?
@Xboomer1
5 жыл бұрын
Maybe this is a different Songbird... I have all of the episodes...none of the planes have this planes markings...though this plane has Songbird on the nose... It may have been a repaint of one used on the show... OR, someone just named their plane the Songbird and put a flying crown on it....for a memory....but nothing matches the show versions...OR...maybe like Songbird III, it was used for public appearances... I'd sure like to know the story of this particular plane....
@davidchapman2839
2 жыл бұрын
Wonder which is the better plane for the kind of rough country "runways" that Sky used? IE: the T-50 tail dragger or the 310 tricycle
@skykingjon
12 жыл бұрын
" Loving Time"
@mkheimbigner
8 жыл бұрын
I loved Sky King as a kid that is until I met him. After standing in line for an hour to get his autograph he was extremely rude. I dropped the picture with his signature on the floor and stepped on it as I left. I never watched the show again.
@Ronbob59
8 жыл бұрын
I saw him at and airshow in LaPorte, Tx. He was the special mc. Couldn't pry the mic out of his hands. They finally just turned off the PA. I real has-been jerk!
@scottmoseley5122
6 жыл бұрын
awwww awwww
@leroyskalstad2795
11 жыл бұрын
Jon, I must have caught the show late, I remember watching it with a Cessna 310, When did they make the transition?. And wasnt the T-50 a bit touchy on ground handling, Thanks, Lee from Milwaukee
@jlstevens3207
2 жыл бұрын
Why is the "N" number on the T-50 in this video N53378? While the number on the bottom of the left wing of the T-50 Songbird in the shows intro, and also scenes of the early Sky King TV episodes, is N5348A. Historians online say that the very first Songbird used in the TV show was also a Cessna T-50 N67832 with T-50N5348A being the second Songbird. How, or where, does N53378 in this video fit into the TV series?
@LordRiina
12 жыл бұрын
name of the song please
@decay21450
10 жыл бұрын
"Out of the blue of the western sky comes, Sky King!" He also flew a Cessna 310. Before or after the T-50?
@cmoore185
10 жыл бұрын
ater. it was one of my favorite Saturday morning dhows in the mid 50's
@decay21450
10 жыл бұрын
Chuck Moore It was one of mine, too. In my market, Detroit, somehow the T-50 came after the 310. The 310 was a brand new design with tricycle gear, wing tanks and opposed piston engines. Filming often included the landing gear retracting which is more artistic on the 310. I didn't know about T-50's, radial engines or tail-draggers back then, and, until this video, always assumed it was a Beechcraft. In other interesting aircraft introduced to the public, the Piper Cherokee, an affordable revolutionary design, made it's film debut in the 1964 James Bond movie, "Goldfinger."
@geraldmurphy6400
8 жыл бұрын
+decay21450 : He flew the 310 after the T50. Hard to believe a plane this big was fabric covered. Heard it called the bamboo bomber. :-) This show was one of the things that made me start taking flying lessons when I hit 17.
@pauleyplay
6 жыл бұрын
You got it right I was there ! Bobcat then a 310, didn't happen
@pauleyplay
6 жыл бұрын
T-50 first 310 last Penny forever !
@RTL1954
11 жыл бұрын
That was the later version aircraft- I believe it was a T-310?
@johnleon9475
6 жыл бұрын
No takeoff or landing ?
@torblackthorn8503
6 жыл бұрын
it must have been after, I've never seen this aircraft before. All I ever saw Sky King fly was the C-310. But what do I know? I'm only 63.
@mattf49006
5 жыл бұрын
i'm 63..first plane i saw was the -50...even had a toy T50 with the logo on it
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