If you were shopping the new utility airplane market for a piston single that hauls six people and carries lots of stuff loaded through big cargo doors, the Cessna T206H is a no-brainer consideration.
As it’s been since it started life in 1963 as the model 205 (a fixed-gear version of the wing-strutted 210), the current HD T206H turbo Stationair is neither fast nor slow and it’s no looker on the airport lunch ramp. But what it lacks in sexy styling it more than makes up with in utility—lots of it. It works we’ll on floats and on oversized tires and it easily carries a cargo pod on its belly. We know of more than one Stationair owner who loads motorcycles in the cabin.