On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:48:51 GMT, "Dave Stadt"
wrote:

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Last AW was built May 1930. DC-6A and B were different airframe and
different wing than the DC-6. Not the same airplane by any stretch of the
imagination. 120, 140, 170, 190, 195 were in one form or another business
aircraft answering the original question. C3 was a business aircraft built
in '33 certified in '34, it was not an AA. It had a totally different
wing, extensive fuselage modificationas and obviously a different engine
than an AA and was certified as a C3 not an AA. The C106, C106A and the
P-10 were business aircraft built during the time period in question.

Picture is of a '52 B model (I think), but somebody at Cessna was
trying to suggest the 170 could be used for business:

http://www.havasreti.com/images/sales_brochure_1.jpg

I don't know if earlier ads for the late 1940s 170 ragwing had the
"Businessliner" moniker or not....

I like this picture too:

http://www.havasreti.com/images/sales_brochure_4.jpg

Makes it look like he's riding in the back of a 1947 Packard!
Not to mention the fact that the 170 probably wouldn't get off the
ground loaded with all that luggage in the back....

(I own/fly a '54 C-170B so I'm allowed to make fun of
the ads....). 8^)

Bela P. Havasreti