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14 unusual facts about Cessna 172


Akram Monfared Arya

She started her training with the Cessna 172 and after only 14 hours of flight she successfully completed her first solo flight.

Cannabis in New Zealand

Detective Travis Hughes and Christopher Scott were killed when their Cessna 172 crashed in Central Otago while on cannabis reconnaissance.

Duane Sand

On June 4, 2008, Sand was piloting his personal airplane, a Cessna 172, on a flight from Bismarck, North Dakota to Fargo, North Dakota.

East Texas Regional Airport

LeTourneau constitutes a very large portion of the airport's traffic and has a fleet of airplanes ranging from Cessna 172s to Citabrias and Diamond DA-42 Twinstars.

Ida Van Smith

Students in the program learn the controls, functions of the instruments, and what makes a plane fly by sitting in Smith's own Cessna 172 cockpit.

Isle-aux-Grues

Eastern time, a Cessna 172 airplane carrying four people crashed on Isle-aux-Grues, killing three people.

Lansing Municipal Airport

On October 14, 2004, a Cessna 172 inbound for Runway 27, at 5:57 a.m., fell short due to bad weather and poor visibility.

Michael Bywater

A book on his journeys around the Australian Outback in a Cessna 172 continues to be a work in progress, due out 'soon'.

Morris E. Goodman

By March 1981, Morris E. Goodman had achieved one of his dreams of obtaining his pilot's license and had bought his own airplane, a Cessna 172.

Pilot report

The aircraft was at 3,000 ft (914 m) and was a Cessna 172.

Robert Bierenbaum

Bierenbaum, a licensed pilot, took a two-hour flight in a Cessna 172 from Essex County, New Jersey over the Atlantic Ocean on the day that Gail had vanished.

St. Gallen–Altenrhein Airport

The airport features a small passenger terminal building and some apron and hangar stands for aircraft such as the Embraer 170, business jets or general aviation planes such as the Cessna 172.

St. George Municipal Airport

On May 26, 2012, at around 1:30 a.m., four people were killed when a Cessna 172 aircraft crashed during take-off from St. George Municipal Airport.

Walter E. Mooney

Designer of the ROHR Two-175 Experimental Aircraft almost put in production to compete against the Cessna 172 in 1971.


2002 Tampa plane crash

The incident occurred when a high-school student of East Lake High School in Tarpon Springs, Florida, Charles J. Bishop, inspired by the September 11 attacks, stole a Cessna 172 and crashed it into the side of the Bank of America Tower in downtown Tampa, Florida.

Derby Airfield

The Derby Aero Club and Flying School operates a range of Cessna Aircraft (Models 140, 152, 172, 177RG), a Beagle Pup series 2 and a Scottish Aviation Bulldog aircraft.

Glass cockpit

By 2005, even basic trainers like the Piper Cherokee and Cessna 172 were shipping with glass cockpits as options (which nearly all customers chose), and many modern aircraft such as the Diamond Aircraft twin-engine travel and training aircraft DA42, and Cirrus Design SR20 and SR22 are available with glass cockpit only.