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There are some minor differences between the "D" and the "H" model Doug, mainly the "H" has radar. The O2 has quite a bit more difference.

Cessna 337D



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Cessna 337H



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Cessna O2

Thanks Larry...much appreciated...

That is the way I remember the 337D and the reason I asked for the pictures was one really had to monitor the engine guages and you flew by the numbers.

Many an aircraft was lost when the rear engine failed on takeoff as takeoff on one engine was not recommended.

The other thing I forgot to mention in your Center Line Thrust posting is the paint colour was the same colour that our 1963 Cessna 172 was...
The livery was quite pleasing...

Again thanks for your time and pictures...

Thanks Larry...much appreciated...

That is the way I remember the 337D and the reason I asked for the pictures was one really had to monitor the engine guages and you flew by the numbers.

Many an aircraft was lost when the rear engine failed on takeoff as takeoff on one engine was not recommended.

The other thing I forgot to mention in your Center Line Thrust posting is the paint colour was the same colour that our 1963 Cessna 172 was...
The livery was quite pleasing...

Again thanks for your time and pictures...

I read in a book of lessons learned in aircraft design by the venerable Jan Roskam that one of the biggest problems with the 337 was the size of the landing gear bay doors.  When pilots would have an engine fail on take off, their reaction would be to raise the gear to reduce the drag on the aircraft.  However, the doors for the landing gear were so massive that doing so made too much drag and sometimes led to an accident.

Nice Larry  8-)

Hi Jake...

Without stealing Larry's thread to answer what you read is probably true.

When the first retractable gear Cessna 337s rolled off the line there was a problem with the gear and pilots had to pry it down with a bar...Cessna soon fixed that.

The 337 like a lot of aircraft was underpowered, maybe not the military version but the civilian aircraft was...

It also had a noisy interior, you were in a small cabin between two engines...

The rear engine sometimes would overheat and the aircraft just did not have enough power to takeoff on one engine and taking off on one engine was just not recommended.
That is why you had to monitor the engine guages because if the rear engine quit prior to getting into the air you had to act quickly.  With the front engine you could see the prop turning where as the rear engine you could not.
Not sure if someone added mirrors to the aircraft to watch the rear prop or not.

It was an expensive aircraft to maintain but if everything was working right you could ignore the noise with good headsets and the aircraft was a wonderful machine to fly, one of Cessna's best...

Only have heard of one being on floats and that was done here in Canada, do not know what ever came of the modification or the idea...