Earlier 172s and all 170s came with a Continental six-cylinder engine, the O-300, up until 1968, when Cessna switched to Lycoming power. Cessna discontinued the 170 in 1956, shortly after the ...

The 170 is equipped with conventional landing gear, which is more challenging to land than tricycle landing gear. In 1956, Cessna introduced a replacement for the 170 that was essentially a ...

The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is a reliable single-engine, high-wing aircraft with a range of about 600 nautical miles. For those looking for a forgiving learning platform, this four-seater with docile ...

Fine choice, but the right one? After all, there was another aircraft that also first flew in 1955, Cessna’s Model 172 Skyhawk, a Mach 0.17 (125 mph) performer versus Crusader’s Mach 1.2.

Transcript Video / May 4, 2018 The first plane I flew was a Cessna 172 and I was so short that I was sitting on my dad’s lap, and basically I was just going up and down. That’s all I did. Both my ...

In 1975, she would buy her third Cessna 172, a new Skyhawk II with bright orange-and-brown paint, and a “premium” avionics package that included dual ARC radios, a transponder and an ADF.

The Cessna 172 started life as a tricycle landing gear variant of the taildragger Cessna 170, with a basic level of standard equipment. In January 1955, Cessna had flown an improved variant of the ...

This 1968 172 Skyhawk has 4,312 hours on the airframe, 1,500 hours on the engine since overhaul, and a basic VFR instrument panel with only an AV-30 ADI standing out as modern equipment from the ...

The most-produced airplane of all time, the Cessna 172 Skyhawk, has been such a phenomenal sales success because it was pretty good at everything and not particularly bad at anything. In other walks ...