Cessna 172 Skyhawk
The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is a four-seat, single-engine, high-wing aircraft family first flown in 1955. Its stable handling, fixed tricycle landing gear, broad production history, and many successive variants made it one of the worlds most widely used training and personal aircraft.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Cessna 172Skyhawk
- Family Name
- 172
- Full Name
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk
- Status
- active
- Type
- aircraft
Details
- Description
- The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is a four-seat, single-engine, high-wing aircraft family first flown in 1955. Its stable handling, fixed tricycle landing gear, broad production history, and many successive variants made it one of the worlds most widely used training and personal aircraft.
- First Flight Year
- 1,955
- Manufacturer
Links
- Wikipedia Url
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_172
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- April 26, 2026 at 14:27:37 UTC
- Image
- Download
- Updated Time
- July 31, 2026 at 06:22:22 UTC
Other
- Aircraft Specs
- Configuration
- fixed_wing
- Operating Modes
- land
- Takeoff Landing Capabilities
- conventional
- Propulsion Configurations
- Entries
- Nested value
- Name
- Cessna 172R/172S IO-360-L2A installation
- Notes
- This bounded configuration covers the Cessna 172R and 172S subseries only. Earlier 172 variants use other exact O-320 models and remain unrepresented rather than being collapsed into the IO-360-L2A relationship.
- Roles
- general_aviationtrainer