Friendship Flight Aircraft Cessna 210 N90MB
Spreading Friendship, Goodwill, Commerce, And Understanding Around The World
Cessna 210
Bill Signs has completed several of his friendship flights in N90MB. Under Signs' hand, N90MB has flown around the world, landed on all 7 continents, and visited Russia, among other endeavors.
As Signs is a licensed aircraft mechanic, he personally keeps N90MB in top operating condition.
Below are N90MB's specs:
1974 Cessna Centurion 210-L [N90MB]
| Engine: | Continental IO-520-L 6 cylinder horizontally opposed |
| Power Output: | 300 hp |
| Empty Weight: | 2300 lbs / 1043 kg |
| Gross Weight: | 3800 lbs / 1723 kg |
| Max Overweight: | 5200 lbs / 2358 kg |
| Wingspan: | 39.67 ft / 12.09 m |
| Wing Area: | 175 ft2 / 16.26 m2 |
| Wing Loading: | 27.1 lbs sq ft |
| Length: | 28.67 ft / 8.74 m |
| Airframe Material: | Aluminum |
| Oil Capacity: | 2.5 gal / 9.46 liters plus auxiliary oil |
| Total Range Miles 0 Wind: | 4200 S.m. / 6759 km |
| Total Range Hours 0 Wind: | 27 hours |
| Total Fuel: | 350 gal / 1324.89 liters in 8 tanks |
| Standard Fuel: | 90 gal in 4 tanks |
| Fuel Burn (Cruise): | 13 gph / 49.21 lph |
| Avg. Cruise Speed: | 180 mph / 289 kph |
Avionics:
Systems:
- Flight Instruments by Sigma-Tek
- Trimble 2000T IFR-Certified GPS
- Trimble TransPac GPS (Handheld)
- BFG Aerospace Stormscope WX-900
- King KX-197
- King KX-80 RNAV
- Kind KX-155 Nav/Comm
- LT-76A Transponder
- KR-87 ADF
- Shadin Fuel Totalizer
- Altitude Alert System
Systems:
- Wet Vacuum Pump by Garmin for dependability
- Pricise Flight Standby Vacuum System (operates off engine induction system)
- Walker Air-Oil Separator
- Auxilliary Oiling System (using a mercury outboard bulb-type primer -- 4 qt/min transfer rate, 1 qt/12 hr std. burn rate)
- Due to very high/very low operating temperatures, Friendship Flight uses Phillips 20w50 X/C Oil
- 2 Wing Fuel Tanks
- 2 Flint Tip Tanks
- 4 Ferry Fuel Tanks