Very nice! My Dad started out with Super Cubs then bought an early model open cockpit Agcat, not sure the exact model year it was, I want to say sixties. If I remember correctly he later put a cabin on it and it had a 275hp Jacobs. No idea why he got rid of it, but he was a Cessna dealer at the time and got a brand new Agwagon which a hired pilot promptly wrecked! He finished out his career with Pawnee's.
My grandparents farm was just a couple of miles from Dick Reade's MidContinent Aircraft Corp. Dad would hire Dick from time to time to spray our cotton or beans. So, it's possible this Ag-Cat flew over our farm. Once I asked Dick why he located in Hayti, MO. He said because a lot of cotton was grown around Hayti, and cotton needed to be sprayed a lot more than corn and he liked to fly. RIP my friend Dick Reade.
Wow, thanks for this video. I am familiar with this plane since my dad and other farmers had one and hired the pilots rom Hayti, MO. Sorry spelling might be wrong. I have a lot of stories from the 70s and 80s as a kid growing up around this plane and going out to flag for crop dusting and being all over this plane. Used to hear it every calm morning in the summer taking off and you could hear that engine for miles away when it took off. Lot of stories I could tell and them pilots were excellent some out of wwii. One crack up and one land down the hwy from mechanical problems.
Keep us updated with the AG-CAT progress, constantly! It looks really beautiful with that Continental W-670 on the front of it.💯😎🖤🤍💛
Thats awesome!!
Great, very informative video. Makes it extra special, being the history behind it and the fact that this Ag-Cat is serial number #1.
Would like to see the plane start-up and fly after the restoration is complete.
Had a hopper burst on a G164c burned me from top to bottom.
IS THAT A 985 PRATT @ WHITNEY
Very nice! My Dad started out with Super Cubs then bought an early model open cockpit Agcat, not sure the exact model year it was, I want to say sixties. If I remember correctly he later put a cabin on it and it had a 275hp Jacobs. No idea why he got rid of it, but he was a Cessna dealer at the time and got a brand new Agwagon which a hired pilot promptly wrecked! He finished out his career with Pawnee's.
Didn't that plane land on a house in Hoxie back in the 90s?
My grandparents farm was just a couple of miles from Dick Reade's MidContinent Aircraft Corp. Dad would hire Dick from time to time to spray our cotton or beans. So, it's possible this Ag-Cat flew over our farm. Once I asked Dick why he located in Hayti, MO. He said because a lot of cotton was grown around Hayti, and cotton needed to be sprayed a lot more than corn and he liked to fly. RIP my friend Dick Reade.
Wow, thanks for this video. I am familiar with this plane since my dad and other farmers had one and hired the pilots rom Hayti, MO. Sorry spelling might be wrong. I have a lot of stories from the 70s and 80s as a kid growing up around this plane and going out to flag for crop dusting and being all over this plane. Used to hear it every calm morning in the summer taking off and you could hear that engine for miles away when it took off. Lot of stories I could tell and them pilots were excellent some out of wwii. One crack up and one land down the hwy from mechanical problems.