Gary:

The FAA Advisory Circular on Aircraft Inspection and Repair
(EA-AC 43.13-1A&2, my copy is old, this may have been since
amended)has a section on the installation of towhooks. Chap
8 Glider aand Banner Tow-Hitch Installations (page 44-8 AC
43.13-2 chg 5 dtd 11/9/67) has a picture of a Schweizer
hook on a 180/185 stinger. I am not aware of an STC (may
well exist however) but with this drawing in the FAA's
official publication, it make make a 337 easier ...well
maybe possible.

If I were doing the installation, I would flip the hook
upside down per Jim Burch's 337 to insure better releases in
tension of the glider gets high on tow.

Pete Brown

Gary Boggs wrote:
Has anybody gotten an STC for a tow hook or have any experience putting a
tow hook on a 185?


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Peter D. Brown
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