Today’s Top Pick is a 1953 Cessna 170B. A quick look at the Cessna 170B will identify the four-seat taildragger as a close relative of the later tricycle-gear 172.

Today’s Top Pick is a 1953 Cessna 170B. Cessna’s 170 is a classic post-World War II design, with four seats, high, strut-braced wing, and conventional (for the time) landing gear with a tailwheel.

If the Cessna 170 doesn’t ring all that many bells, it’s understandable. The American aircraft company, now part of Textron , only made it between 1948 and 1956, albeit in large numbers ...

The Cessna 170B, piloted by two Alaska men last May, never got more than 50 feet off the ground before crashing, investigators found. Content. Skip to Main Content Accessibility Help.