Replacement Cessna POH Binder

Any decent office supplies store?

I guess the format as well as the spacing between the holes are “custom”, to make sure one can’t buy a replacement from a general office supply store…

If so, Cessna might be your only choice… but if it’s from 1979, they will likely not offer the correct one (cover print!) either by now…

Most people just get on with it…

There are 2 approaches, both of which I have used

• buy or borrow the “US pitch” hole punch (some avionics shops, which know what “AFMS” is) have these
• mark up the holes, using an existing punched sheet as a template, and use one punch of a standard 2-punch hole punch to do all the holes individually

They do come up on ebay quite a lot.

boscomantico wrote:

I guess the format as well as the spacing between the holes are “custom”, to make sure one can’t buy a replacement from a general office supply store…

I don’t think so. Selling binders as “spare parts” must be a very minor business for an aircraft manufacturer and would have the inconvenience that they themselves would have to make or buy non-standard binders, i.e. extra costs. I’d rather think that the three ring binders are some odd USA standard.

It was meant more as a joke 😁. Of course, they will have no interest in selling these to people who have worn out their originals after 40 years…In any case, the end result is that one can‘t easily get a replacement when one is needed.

If this is correct, it’s an ANSI standard half letter size three ring binder that could be bought anywhere in the US, including online, in the desired thickness. That is, assuming you don’t need one embossed by Cessna or similarly OEM looking. A Google search on ‘half letter size three ring binder’ gets a number of options to purchase, hopefully some of which ship to Europe.

If it’s ANSI letter size (8.5 × 11) size versus half letter, I could send you one of the tens of the things that somehow end up in the cabinets of my office, unused

Trivia alert: US engineers who once upon a time used to draw lines on vellum and (brace yourself) blueprint drawings on paper know that ANSI 8.5 × 11 inch letter size is officially called A-size. B-size is two of those, C-size is twice B-size and so on. The typical sizes for engineering drawings in my company say pre-1990 were C-size and E-size, the latter ends up being 32 times as big as the Half-A size sheets that per the link seem to be the size used for a Cessna POH.