@DarthAzrael 4 November 2021 more from that month

This photo features an airplane and presumably its soon to be (or recent) occupants. The registration number is clearly visible giving me something to search for as there are a multitude of websites with info on aircraft registrations, including the FAA itself. However, registration numbers get reused over time. There are two planes with this particular registration (N2569V). The second is far too new but the first looks like a possibility. It belongs to a Cessna 170 that was registered in 1968. However, it looks like this plane was built much earlier than that. The serial number is 18110 which, doing a little research on this model, indicates that this plane was produced in the first year of manufacture for the Cessna 170 in 1948. I couldn't find anything on the first 20 years of that aircraft's history or what ultimately happened to it, except that the registration was cancelled a few years later in 1971. For more info and photos from this set, see https://hive.blog/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-oestreicher-1313-1316 #slides #vintage #photos #film #photography #Kodak #Kodachrome