On 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.

This included 165 of the 460 employees who built the Cessna 350 and 400.

The job cuts included 120 at the Bend, Oregon facility reducing the plant that built the Cessna 350 and 400 to fewer than half the number of workers that it had when Cessna bought it.

SAS also maintains six aircraft for use in company operations including Bell 407 helicopter, a Boeing 737 Business Jet, an 8 passenger Cessna Citation X, a pair of 12pax Dassault Falcon 900's and fractional ownership in a six-passenger Hawker 400.

Corporate aircraft such as the Beechcraft Super King Air, Cessna CitationJet series, Hawker 400, Hawker 800, Piaggio Avanti and variants of the Dassault Falcon business jets are increasingly common.

* Cessna 400 Corvalis light aircraft

Cessna produces their models as the Cessna 350 and Cessna 400.

In 1996 scheduled services began using a mixed fleet of a total of eight Cessna 400 and Piper PA-23 aircraft, after which larger Short 360 aircraft were added.

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Cessna 400 | Columbia 400

On 27 November 2007 Cessna's parent company Textron announced that Cessna Aircraft was the successful bidder for Columbia Aircraft, that the Columbia 350 and 400 are renamed the Cessna 350 and Cessna 400 and that all existing Columbia aircraft will be supported by Cessna.

* Para-Lift Flaps – these were the large Fowler flaps Cessna introduced on the 170B in 1952, replacing the narrow chord plain flaps then in use.

* Land-O-Matic – In 1956, Cessna introduced sprung-steel tricycle landing gear on the 172.

* Omni-Vision – This referred to the rear windows on some Cessna singles, starting with the 182 and 210 in 1962, the 172 in 1963 and the 150 in 1964.

* Quick-Scan – Cessna introduced a new instrument panel layout in the 1960s and this buzzword was to indicate Cessna ’ s panels were ahead of the competition.

* Nav-O-Matic – This was the name of the Cessna autopilot system, which implied the system was relatively simple.

* Camber-Lift – This marketing name was used to describe Cessna aircraft wings starting in 1972 when the aerodynamics designers at Cessna added a slightly drooped leading edge to the standard NACA 2412 airfoil used on most of the light aircraft fleet.

* Stabila-Tip – Cessna started commonly using wingtip fuel tanks, but carefully shaped for aerodynamic effect rather than just tubular-shaped.

* Cessna 162 – high-wing, single piston engined, two-seat light sport aircraft in production since 2009

* Cessna 172 – high-wing, single piston engined, four-seat aircraft in production since the 1950s.

* Cessna 182 – high-wing, single piston engined, four-seat aircraft in production since 1996 ( was originally produced between 1956 and 1985 )

* Cessna 206 – high-wing, single piston engined, six-seat utility aircraft in production since 1962.

* Cessna 208 – high-wing turboprop utility aircraft in production since 1984.

* Cessna 510 – twin-engined very light business jet produced since 2005.

* Cessna 525 – twin-engined light business jet produced since 1991.

* Cessna 560XL – twin-engined small-to-medium business jet produced since 1996.

* Cessna 680 – twin-engined mid-sized business jet produced since 2004.

* Cessna 750 – twin-engined long-range medium business jet aircraft produced since 1996.

* PilotFriend. com – Cessna company history and aircraft types details

* 1879 – Clyde Cessna, American airplane manufacturer ( d. 1954 )

* AVE Mizar – 1973, Cessna Skymaster / Ford Pinto hybrid.

* 2001 – A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System ( SAS ) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118.

Cessna 350 at Sun ' n Fun 2006

A Cessna 350 light aircraft with its gull-wing doors open

* Cessna 350

Cessna 350 | Columbia 350 at Sun ' n Fun 2006

Manufacturers such as Cessna, Piper, and Beechcraft expanded production to provide light aircraft for the new middle-class market.

1946 saw Cessna return to commercial production after the revocation of wartime production restrictions ( L-48 ) with the release of the Model 120 and Model 140.

By manufacturing the aircraft in China, Cessna reports it saved USD $ 71, 000 in production costs per aircraft, or about 40 % of the cost.

A second reason cited for moving production to Shenyang Aircraft Corporation was Cessna had no plant capacity available in the USA at the time.

On 4 November 2008 Cessna's parent company, Textron, indicated that Citation production would be reduced from the original 2009 target of 535 " due to continued softening in the global economic environment " and that this would result in an undetermined number of lay-offs at Cessna.

Currently Cessna has the following models in production:

Cessna was re-sold to Textron in January 1992, the San Diego missile production to General Motors-Hughes Aerospace in May 1992, the Fort Worth aircraft production to Lockheed in March 1993 ( a nearby electronics production facility was separately sold to Israeli-based Elbit Systems, marking their entry into the United States market ), and its Space Systems Division to Martin Marietta in 1994.

Manufacturers such as Cessna, Piper, and Beechcraft expanded production to provide light aircraft for the new middle-class market.

In 1984 he exploited a production hiatus at Cessna aircraft to create a new all-British light aircraft, the ARV Super2.

Just as production was ready to start, Cessna announced they were halting their small-aircraft business for an indefinite period, and SCORE was cancelled.

As a result of the study the company announced the production of the $ 109, 500 Cessna 162 at the AirVenture air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where they sold over 700 copies of the plane in one week.

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