G-dram

**cessna152towser** · 10th September 06, 02:41 PM

I photographed this Cessna FR172 at RAF Leuchars open day on Saturday and thought it would make ideal transport for Pour1Malt !
This is a French assembled Cessna which is normally based at Glasgow Airport but is sometimes fitted with floats for scenic seaplane flights on and over Loch Lomond.

**O'Neille** · 10th September 06, 05:19 PM

Do thos Kansas boys know that somebody in France is making their airplanes. I never knew they had a European manufacturig plant. Now I know. O'Neille

**Pour1Malt** · 30th November 06, 09:46 AM

ai missed this threid till the noo...

ta Alex...

ma plane indeed!!!!

**cessna152towser** · 3rd January 07, 01:50 PM

Sadly G-DRAM was one of the casualties of the gales on Hogmanay night, when one of her tiedowns broke, causing her to be blown along the ground at Glasgow Airport by the wind, breaking a float and coming to rest on a wingtip.
I won't copy pictures from another forum but if anyone wants to see the damage there are photos here.
http://www.taxiwayalpha.com/forums/i...showtopic=3788
Hopefully she will be able to be repaired.

**Panache** · 3rd January 07, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by cessna152towser

Sadly G-DRAM was one of the casualties of the gales on Hogmanay night, when one of her tiedowns broke, causing her to be blown along the ground at Glasgow Airport by the wind, breaking a float and coming to rest on a wingtip.
I won't copy pictures from another forum but if anyone wants to see the damage there are photos here.
http://www.taxiwayalpha.com/forums/i...showtopic=3788
Hopefully she will be able to be repaired.

So you are saying that a dram was spilled on New Years in Scotland?

That doesn't seem too unusual.

Cheers

**Dirk Skene** · 3rd January 07, 01:57 PM

Originally Posted by cessna152towser

Sadly G-DRAM was one of the casualties of the gales on Hogmanay night,....

Ouch :crap: there goes Pour 1's plane.

**Livingston** · 3rd January 07, 06:28 PM

Do you know if they will be able to repair it or is it a total wreck now?

**McMurdo** · 3rd January 07, 06:46 PM

I took a look at the link and the graphic on the side of G-DRAM on the other forum was a different style and colour than that of the one shown above. Perhaps P1M's plane is fine ater all.

**KiltedCodeWarrior** · 3rd January 07, 06:58 PM

Well I don't know a lot about planes, but the one that was wrecked appears to be a seaplane of some kind, and painted differently as has been noted. Perhaps there are 2?

**Livingston** · 3rd January 07, 07:11 PM

Originally Posted by KiltedCodeWarrior

Well I don't know a lot about planes, but the one that was wrecked appears to be a seaplane of some kind, and painted differently as has been noted. Perhaps there are 2?

In the original post, C152T indicated that it is sometimes fitted with floats for scenic seaplane flights on and over Loch Lomond.