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4 unusual facts about Cessna 150


2011 Dearborn mosque bombing plot

On September 1, 1979, the Merced Sun-Star reported that Stockham, whom it described as a "32-year-old Moslem convert", had taken his then-9-year-old son Kane out of foster care and brought Kane and a gun on board his rented Cessna 150 in attempt to land at Los Angeles International Airport and hijack an airliner to take him to Iran.

Bemidji Airlines

After acquisition by the current owners in 1970 the company operated four Cessna 150 aircraft, mainly for fire patrol, flight instruction and passenger charter services.

Dustin Shuler

Shuler also unveiled "Pinned Butterfly" in 1982, in which he pinned a Cessna 150 to the four-story American Hotel in Los Angeles using a giant steel nail.

Plaridel Airport

Plaridel Airport was temporarily closed on July 9, 2007 following a crash involving two Cessna 150s that killed three persons: an instructor and a student from WCC Aviation School, and another student, Varsha Gopinanth, an Indian national and student at the Phoenix Aviation School.



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