The Cessna 120-140 Association Forum

I ran across this ad on Facebook from Robert Brown in Atlanta. I did not see a post from him here, so I thought a club member might be interested.

Robert Brown shared a link.
April 8 at 2:49 PM
Large Cessna 120/140 Parts Inventory
$9,000
30060
https://flic.kr/s/aHsm6Jt6VM

Large inventory of mostly new old stock Cessna 120/140 parts; over 300 part numbers. Photos are a fraction of the inventory. Located near Atlanta, GA.

Thanks Bob,

I'm trying to contact him.

It'd be worth it just to get that HF radio antenna...

6643 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 9:24 pm It'd be worth it just to get that HF radio antenna...

Actually it is a Low Freq antenna. I bought one NOS from Robert in 2003 ($10) and installed it.

3679 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 9:29 pmActually it is a Low Freq antenna. I bought one NOS from Robert in 2003 ($10) and installed it.

Relatively speaking, yes, but it's called high frequency when compared to the Ultra High Frequency radios of today the last 75 years...

If it's the same antenna that is shown on pg 2, with the 6 inch bracket that mounts on the tail, that's an original ADF antenna. Got one in my basement somewhere in a box of parts. Got it from Jeanie Van Sant in PA, but never installed it. Jeanie had two warehouses packed full of Cessna 120-140-170-195 parts that her dad, John, had collected before he passed. Warehouses were behind their house at Van Sant Airport, PA. She sold everything to someone from Atlanta, GA. Could be the same guy. That was 25 years ago. She then moved to Hawaii after her mother, Emma, passed.

When she sold, I was there the day the buyer was picking up the parts. A backhoe was crushing two C-195 complete wings to fit in a scrap metal truck. Also saw him give the scrap metal man three B-17 engine generators, still in the unopened shipping containers, sold as scrap. What a waste.

I met that guy back around 1990, I think. I have a few parts kicking around that I picked up from him on the way back from Maryland, from a convention, I think.

Look at Figure 56 in the parts catalog. I'm pretty sure that's the antenna in the photo, for the old GE HF ratio. I still have some of the brackets and the insulator on my plane. Never had an ADF in that plane, as far as I can tell from the logs. (Probably won't install one any time in the future, either, although it is nice being able to pick up the ball games...)

John C., yep, that's the same antenna setup I bought from Jeannie. Not Cessna 140 specific, but here's a good article on the GE AS-1B radio offered by Cessna in the 140. Says the AS-1B was an LF radio. I have some friends that flew the US Navy TACAMO Boeing E-6, Mercury, (highly modified B-707), , and the USAF E-4, (highly modified B-747), Nightwatch jets. They both have a trailing wire antenna for their VLF freq radios to communicate with Nuke subs. Trailing wire antenna is 5 miles long. The AS-1B antenna on the C-140 was about 16 feet long, lol.

GE AS-1B radio.....http://www.stinsonflyer.com/avtextsf/stn-sradi.pdf

If you're interested.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-6_Mercury