Some years later he was hangar flying with a friend at Bessemer Airport and he learned that this guy had a float plane for sale. It was a Cessna 150 on floats, and turned out to be the same 150 that Charles had seen as a youngster on Lake Martin. From his Cub experience he was a little wary of under powered float planes, but this one had been upgraded to 150hp and had a STOL kit on it. He was easily talked into a test flight on Lake Guntersville. Needless to say the plane was bought. Charles found an excellent instructor who took the time to really teach float flying. He had to import an examiner from the Nashville FSDO, who happened to fly Canadair water bombers and a Consolidated PBY on occasion.
