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13 unusual facts about Cessna


23d Flying Training Squadron

The 23d TASS, like its sister FAC squadrons based in Vietnam, initially flew Cessna O-1 Bird Dogs in 1966 and into 1968, when the last one was retired.

Cessna

The Cessna factory at Independence, Kansas, which builds the Cessna piston-engined aircraft and the Cessna Mustang, was not forecast to see any layoffs, but one third of the workforce at the former Columbia Aircraft facility in Bend was laid off.

27 November 2007: Textron announced that Cessna had purchased the bankrupt Columbia Aircraft company for US$26.4M and would continue production of the Columbia 350 and 400 as the Cessna 350 and Cessna 400 at the Columbia factory in Bend, Oregon.

Courchevel

Larger propeller aircraft such as the Twin Otter and Dash 7 (carrying up to 50 people) have been regular users of the airport over the years, but have since been phased out of use and smaller Cessnas and helicopters are often seen sitting on the tarmac nowadays.

Juist

Their 4-seat Cessna and their four 10-seat Britten-Norman Islanders serve Juist airport, which has the second highest number of movements in Lower Saxony after the capital airport Hannover.

Lake Burrumbeet

On October 21, 1965, a Ballarat Aero Club Cessna plunged into the lake with a pilot and three passengers on board.

Light Observation Helicopter

By January 1961, 12 manufacturers, including Cessna, Hughes Tool Co. Aircraft Division, Hiller Aircraft and Bell Helicopters, had responded with 19 designs.

Nebraska State Patrol

The Aviation Support Division which consists of a Bell 407 helicopter and one Cessna 182RG single engine airplane, two Turbo Cessna T206H's equipped with FLIR and downlink capabilities as well as a Piper Super Cub used for traffic enforcement, observation and surveillance.

Randolph-Macon Academy

The Academy owns two Cessnas, and the flight instructors, Ryan Koch and Laura Abraham, are members of the Academy faculty.

Sialkot Cantonment Airport

Sialkot Cantonment Airport is a small army airport for Mushak and Cessna planes and helicopters in Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan.

Snoddington

The hamlet is presently engaged in a long running dispute with nearby Thruxton airfield to require local Cessna pilots to desist from flying low over the hamlet and thereby scaring domestic poultry, of which a number of deaths have been reported as a consequence.

South Atlantic Raiders

Stan manages to get a stay of execution by telling Galtieri and his men the story of how he reached that point; after the escape from Dartmoor, Stan and his accomplices sneaked about a passenger jet heading to Vancouver by pretending to be the crew, Max having had some limited experience in flying Cessna aircraft "before my first breakdown."

The Unlimited Dream Company

Moreover, Blake is obsessed by the relic of the small Cessna aircraft that he crash-landed on, which has been left submerged in river Thames.


Airspeed Aviation

The airline was in operation since 1986 and was sold to Orca Airways at Vancouver International Airport on February 27, 2009, it specialized in flying between Abbotsford International Airport and Victoria International Airport, with twin-engine Cessna corporate aircraft.

Bob Cessna

Shortly before his death he completed Twinn Connexion, a screenplay based on the Grammy-nominated singing duo Twinn Connexion, which was composed of Cessna's life partner Jerry Hopkins and Jerry's identical twin brother.

Robert Thomas Cessna was born on December 17, 1934 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.

Cessna 414

American actor Patrick Swayze was involved in an incident in which a Cessna 414 he flew experienced a sudden decompression at 12,900 feet over Arizona.

American gospel singer Keith Green and 11 other people were killed on July 28 1982 in a Cessna 414 shortly after takeoff at Garden Valley Airport.

Cessna Citation X

The first Citation X was delivered in July 1996 to golfer and long-time Cessna customer Arnold Palmer.

Cessna Comet

On 5 July 1917, Cessna used it to set a national airspeed record of 124.6 mph (200.5 km/h) and national distance record of 76 miles (122 km) flying from Blackwell, Oklahoma, to Wichita, Kansas.

Cessna Stadium

On October 1, 2006, as part of their A Bigger Bang Tour, The Rolling Stones performed their first-ever concert in Wichita, held at Cessna Stadium, which was set up to accommodate 35,000 to 40,000 fans.

Clyde Vernon Cessna

In the years following World War I public interest in private flying increased, leading Cessna in 1925, along with Walter Beech and Lloyd Stearman, to found the Travel Air Manufacturing Company in Wichita, Kansas.

Flight 182

PSA Flight 182, collided with Cessna skyhawk in North Park, San Diego, California, September 25, 1978

Fly My Sky

Mountain Air originally began to develop its aeroplane division in 1988, using a Cessna 172 and 206 to conduct scenic flights over the Tongariro National Park.

Garrison Melmoth

The Melmoth was destroyed in the summer of 1982 at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, when the pilot of a Cessna landing with engine problems lost control of the aircraft and it impacted the Melmoth waiting for take-off clearance.

Joan Root

The Roots introduced Dian Fossey to the gorillas she would later die trying to save, took Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis over Kenya in their balloon, and covered much of Africa in their famous single-engine Cessna, their amphibious car, and their balloon, at one time equipped with a raft for water landings.

Línea Turística Aereotuy

On 17 April 2009, an LTA Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft crashed shortly after taking off from Canaima, Venezuela, killing one child.

M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport

Probably the most famous accident associated with Clark Field was the crash of a CitationJet (Cessna-525, or CJ1) on approach to the airport in very low winter weather in 1999.

Matthew C Martino

His very first flight was aboard a Cessna 152 at Stapleford Flight Centre which is based at Stapleford Aerodrome .

Nantucket Airlines

Nantucket Airlines, or ACK Air as it is commonly referred to (ACK is the 3 letter identifier for Nantucket's Airport) utilizes a fleet of 6 Cessna 402C Businessliners/Utililiners (the Cape Air/Nantucket Airlines fleet consists of 60 Cessna 402Cs with 5 painted in the ACK Air livery and the remaining 55 painted in the Cape Air livery).

Piarco International Airport

1963 - (January 5) A Cessna Skywagon carrying two Swedish persons, Torgny Sommelius (Pilot) and Erik Strandmark, crashed landed and caught fire at Piarco killing both of them (2 Deaths).

Roanoke Regional Airport

Shortly after it departed from Asheville Regional Airport in Asheville, North Carolina, on July 19, 1967, Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 collided with a twin-engine Cessna 310 on approach to Asheville.

SEASPRAY

SEASPRAY operated many air assets, including various Cessna and Beechcraft light fixed-wing airplanes, and modified FLIR-equipped Hughes 500MD rotary-wing aircraft equipped to transport up to nine operators.

SMA SR305-230

Between 17 and 25 July 2006 a converted Cessna 182 (registration F-GJET) flew from Le Bourget to Oshkosh, Wisconsin.