[KC Burke]

A guy i did some business with in the mid 70s had a Commander that was similar. Felt like he fuselage was going to drag on the runway — very low slung.

[Rockingham]

The low slung cabin of the Aero Commander was one of its attractions because it made for easier, car-like entry and exit. This especially appealed to women, children, and older pilots and passengers. Many of them found clambering up on the wing of a light airplane disconcerting or physically difficult.

That was the case with my mother, who gritted her teeth at climbing into the Navion my father had painstaking restored. She sighed wistfully though at the Aero Commander that shared a hangar with the Navion. A wealthy older couple owned the Commander but rarely flew it. To my mother's eyes, it looked like a luxury sedan with a wing and twin engines on top.