That's 8 minutes I'll never get back from my life.
@Franklin-pc3xd
Ай бұрын
Until recently, I always just assumed that Songbird I was a twin Beech. It wasn't until someone corrected me that I realized, and confirmed, it was actually a C T-50 as shown here.
@R.boomhower
4 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 .
@greg4673
5 ай бұрын
Well, that was disappointing
@bjbinmke
5 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.
@smooches1368
5 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.
@rogersmart1766
7 ай бұрын
Yes Sky King had thee Cessna T-50 Bobcat
@vanedwards9894
10 ай бұрын
Not plane from the TV show
@baycassidy51
Жыл бұрын
Wow I watched that whole video just to see that bird take off and it didn't. Is bad form
@Pilotc180
Жыл бұрын
Out of the western sky comes Skyking, brought to you by Nabisco
@ufoengines
2 жыл бұрын
Sky's plane will always be the Cessna 310 B for me. I got my multi in one . kzitem.info/news/bejne/t4aAnquwh5enjXY
@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
@imilliemedina666
2 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure Songbird was a Cessna 310
@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.
@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?
@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
@3dfoamies
3 жыл бұрын
Anyone know the name of the song and artist?
@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
@intrepid5144
3 жыл бұрын
I so preferred this "Songbird" plane than the later, more modern one he replaced it with!
@jamesmccasland887
3 жыл бұрын
Bobcat Trainer. I watched. Sponsored by Nabisco
@turbo1234ist
3 жыл бұрын
Where's that loop antenna!
@billlarrabee9436
3 жыл бұрын
Are you kidding? All you did was drive it around. It looks and sounds great but what a disappointment you never left the ground. Sad!
@tenpiloto
3 жыл бұрын
In the last few years of the show it was a Cessna 310
@TheDoodybutch
3 жыл бұрын
Does it fly or just taxi around?
@BobReinheimer
3 жыл бұрын
EVERY Saturday. And then there was Penny! And Sheriff Hargrove. Great stuff.
@roberthunter4884
3 жыл бұрын
Well that was about anticlimactic af
@bb38313
3 жыл бұрын
sky king flew a Bonanza
@michaelmcmurtrey8543
2 жыл бұрын
No, he did not.
@microrails
3 жыл бұрын
Is this airplane in Canada now!
@SenorZorrozzz
3 жыл бұрын
So that’s the one from the television show? Is it still around?
@SenorZorrozzz
3 жыл бұрын
Hamilton Standard propellers.
@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.
@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
@blimpcommander1337
3 жыл бұрын
Why is it that all the information I find says the T-50 used as the SongBird was N67832? Which also is no longer flying after being damaged in a windstorm in Missouri.
@michaelmcmurtrey8543
2 жыл бұрын
The T-50 seen in all the flying sequences WAS N67832, owned at the time by Paul Mantz and flown for the filming by his pilot employees.
@blimpcommander1337
2 жыл бұрын
@@michaelmcmurtrey8543 Thanks. I didn’t think the plane in this video was the same plane
@michaelmcmurtrey8543
2 жыл бұрын
@@blimpcommander1337 You’re welcome. N67832 was eventually acquired by a Missouri crop duster who wanted the airplane for its engines (300 hp Lycomings). It was barely flyable when he acquired it; its last flight was made with landing gear locked down on a one-time ferry permit. The gentleman and his wife are both now deceased, and the airplane is little more than scrap, but their estate keeps the registration current.
@blimpcommander1337
2 жыл бұрын
@@michaelmcmurtrey8543 Yes I knew where the plane ended up. I am only about 70 miles from there and use to drive by their place going to KC
@flybouy11
3 жыл бұрын
Penny was a cutie. I liked the Cessna 310 better.
@billmorris2613
3 жыл бұрын
Good morning from SE Louisiana 31 Mar 21.
@craigwall9536
3 жыл бұрын
Good God- it looks like ME pulling those chocks!
@phillipzx3754
3 жыл бұрын
My guess is more guys fell in love with the 310 (or Penny :-) ) than the t-50.
@donaldshannon6541
3 жыл бұрын
Out of the Western sky ... Sky King!
@trainliker100
3 жыл бұрын
A ranch, a hero rancher, the west, a plane, a pretty girl - what's not to like.
@terrellnichols5265
3 жыл бұрын
This video could have been so more informative about this magnificent aircraft and said it was boring and a waste of time please add narration some information instead of just watching an airplane on the tarmac shame on you
@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
3 жыл бұрын
RESCUE 8 MINE AND DOBIE GILLIS AND LOVE THAT BOB
@lorenzodunn3226
3 жыл бұрын
Sky King and Whirlybird Bird
@stevebrewer1720
3 жыл бұрын
Great show back in the day!
@nancystacy4076
3 жыл бұрын
Sky, you could have done that in a golf cart.
@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.
@MRRice-wz3bv
3 жыл бұрын
Yes good to see Songbird flying. Do missed that t.v. series.
@eottoe2001
3 жыл бұрын
Thought it was a Cessna 310.
@tsmgguy
3 жыл бұрын
N53378, a 1943 Cessna T-50 Bobcat, is still registered in Auburn, Washington, USA.
@reneblanchfield3801
3 жыл бұрын
Out of the great Western sky comes Sky King...
@mikeblackford994
3 жыл бұрын
All I remember of Sky King planes was the tuna tank 310. Dont remember any twin tail draggers
@jim874
2 жыл бұрын
You're too young then !
@davidbird7540
5 ай бұрын
@@jim874 I,was born in 1949,Tell Me Im, To Young ,ASSHOLE,??????
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