September 5, 2011 Short Final

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Many years ago, I had to make a night flight from Cable Airport to Phoenix in a Cessna 150. The weather was clear, and I filed a VFR flight plan for N51139 and departed at 10:30pm. While climbing out over Ontario VOR (now PDZ), I contacted Ontario Approach (now SoCal) for flight following, got a squawk, and was advised of radar contact, then settled in for the long flight. The frequency was quiet at that late hour, and I guessed the controller was bored. He must have looked up our flight plan, because the next thing I heard was:

Approach:
"Cessna 51139, are you an orange and white Cessna?"

N51139:
"That's affirmative for 51139."

Approach:
"Pretty good radar, isn't it?"

Greg
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