ORIGINAL: hogflyer
Bruce,
Now I remember about the 208 designation – it was in one of the magazines (AOPA?) Cessna originally was going to call the 8 place version a 208 but didn’t. I think this was because the Caravan was lurking around and given that designation instead, so they just did a mod on the 207 instead to add the 8th seat. Their original intent was to call each one for the number of seats – hence 206 as 6 place, 207 as 7 place and 208 as 8 place.
Hogflyer
If I recall, the C-207 had a little sideways facing seat in the back and the C-208 got a full bench seat in the back row.
You're not implying the C-210 was a 10 seater are you? [:@]