U206 rollup door

[jumpinDan 0]

Thanks to the help of WIN Aviation, we now have an approved rollup lexan door on our U206. No more freezing waiting for the green light!

[Anvilbrother 0]

Looks real nice!

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[DougH 270]

I will second that, real cool.

Looks like a fair amount of lost headroom when opened. The camera guys are going to whack their still cameras a few times before getting the hang of it.

Do you have a floater bar on top of your 206 for floaters to hold on to?

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
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[riggerrob 558]

Do everyone a favour and post contact information for WIN Aviation.
Maybe the "greenies" should make STC information "sticky."
Or maybe we need a separate thread specifically for jump-planes.

[AndyMan 7]

http://winaviation.com/


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[sundevil777 93]

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And you can take it home for $85k

Looks like it is named ugly beast!

People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

[DougH 270]

That is a 205? Not a cargo model 206 with the more rearward door. Am I missing something here?

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
=P

[AHoyThere 0]

Wow, that's the nicest 206 door I've ever seen. Good job.

[stratostar 5]

206's come with both type of doors depending on model, the cargo model is the one with the aft door, the PAX model has a standard door.

you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

[vpjr 1]

Do they have an STC for the door install? Can you fly with out the door spoiler installed? What was the installed weight? Price?

[ZigZagMarquis 8]

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Can you fly with out the door spoiler installed?

What does that buy you except a few less drag counts?

[craigbey 0]

You let jumpers in there? That is WAY too nice!

[riggerrob 558]

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That is a 205? Not a cargo model 206 with the more rearward door. Am I missing something here?

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WIN Aviation is advertising a Cessna 205 with a slide-up, in-flight door by the co-pilot's seat.
The disadvantage is that you lose some headroom (when kneeling) near the door.

That is rare, because most Cessnas - with in-flight, co-pilot's doors - are aluminum.
Most Cessna in-flight doors are modified from the standard aluminum door, by adding a hinge across the top edge and trimming the lower, front corner until it clears the wing strut.

[totter 2]

WIN Aviation; a.k.a. Fayard Enterprises.

Paul was the first and only person that I've know to install this type of door in place of the swing up co-pilot door. His 300 HP 182 was the first I believe.
With the roll up door I don't believe that there is any airspeed limitation to opening the door, like with the swing up.
The downside that I've heard of is that if you're a tall pilot the door will grease the top of your head.

[PhreeZone 15]

I know a 206P pilot that had a huge bruise on the right side of his head from an overaggressive jumper slamming a roll up door open in a 206 wit htihs type of door installed and right into the side of his head.

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[lekstrom10k 0]

Figure a twin otter door as $10,000 and a C-182 at $5000 that will ball park the C-206

[jumpinDan 0]

N2184F, the plane in this picture, is a 1965 U206 that we use primarily for high profile tandem demonstration jumping of wounded soldiers. (Team X-treme, Ranger Group, SFA) This wasn't done on a STC, but a 337. That was important to us because we also use this bird for film production and many of the STC's limit door off operations strictly to skydiving. The early model U206 is unique in that it was approved in its original design to fly with the doors off and doesn't need any paperwork from the FAA to fly that way. You are required by the POH to have the spoiler installed whenever door off operations are performed. Anyone that has flown a 206 or 208 without the spoiler knows how much buffet you get and how much it can tear up your interior and blast jumpers. I lost 1.5 inches of head room and I can still get all six seats in for cross country flight. My door open speed limitation is 150mph limited by the POH and not the 337. The pilot can very easily shut it with one hand after jumpers are gone and there are no limitations added to my door closed operations. I didn't get the floater bar, even though I want one, because I couldn't afford it right now. Anyone who wants specific details, feel free to email me directly at [email protected].

[jumpinDan 0]

Although Paul and Andri work closely together, Win Aviation and Fayard Enterprises are separate companies owned by different people. They both do awesome work.

[totter 2]

That's right My bad.

Andi is WIN; Rampart is, a.k.a. Fayard Enterprises.

Fayard did a lot of MX for Andri and I was used to seeing one of his aircraft at Lewisburg on a regular basis.
Got them mixed up.