In 2007, Aviation Week & Space Technology reported a total of six aircraft in service: one Antonov An-32 tactical transport, one Cessna 421 Golden Eagle utility aircraft, two Eurocopter SA 365 Dauphin helicopters, one Gulfstream IV VIP aircraft, and one Mil Mi-24 attack helicopter.

During the same time two Cessna 337s and two DHC-5 Buffalo STOL transports were supplied in 1977-78 with one DHC-5 crashing almost immediately and the other being returned to De Havilland Canada in 1979.

The Cessna Caravan and Pilatus PC-12, are single-engine turboprops, sometimes used as a small airliner, although many countries stipulate a minimum requirement of two engines for aircraft to be used as airliners.

* A Cessna 525 Citation CJ1 twin-engine jet departing for Long Beach Airport crashed north of the airport on January 12, 2007, killing two people on board the plane.

They started off with a twin engine Cessna 340 and later added two jets to the fleet.

In 1948, with two thirds of its workforce laid off, Piper only lost $ 75, 000, but it found itself no longer the leader in a shrinking market, falling behind Cessna, which itself only delivered 1, 600 aircraft ; the Ponca City factory was closed.

* May 29 – To create an " imaginary bridge " between the Western world and the Communist Bloc and defuse tensions between the two, Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, makes an unauthorized flight from Helsinki-Malmi Airport in Helsinki, Finland, through supposedly impregnable Soviet air defenses and lands his rented Reims Cessna F172P adjacent to Red Square in Moscow in the Soviet Union.

Additionally, two Civil Air Patrol aircraft are based at TUL, a Cessna 172 and Cessna 182 respectively.

All 135 on board the PSA were killed, as were the two people on the Cessna and seven on the ground.

Both aircraft crashed into North Park, a San Diego neighborhood, killing all 135 on board the Boeing 727-214, the two men aboard the Cessna 172 Skyhawk, and seven people on the ground in houses, including two children.

The Cessna was being flown by two licensed pilots.

Munson had been taking flying lessons for over two years and purchased a Cessna Citation I / SP jet so he could fly home to his family in Canton on off-days.

The Cessna 150 took roughly two years to be " eaten ," from 1978 to 1980.

Phase two would have involved Murad either renting, buying, or hijacking a small airplane, preferably a Cessna.

In addition to Embraer and Cessna 404, the company had two Beech 99 aircraft.

* February 24 – A Cuban Air Force MiG-29UB fighter shoots down two Cessna Skymasters of the Cuban exile activist group Brothers to the Rescue off Havana, Cuba, killing four members of the group, including pilot Carlos Costa.

In 1972 two Cessna airplanes were obtained for his use.

UND operates a fleet over 100 aircraft including Cessna 172's, 150's, Piper Seminoles, Arrows, two Beechcraft King Air 90's and a pair of Decathlons for flight training.

In October 1993 CHS Aviation added two Cessna 208 Caravans and a Beechcraft B200 King Air to its general aviation fleet, to provide charter services to Southern Sudan for the SPLA.

At the end of October 1993 CHS Aviation had three Cessna Caravans, and two King Air B200s operating flights to Southern Sudan.

* The Escuadrón de Transporte ( transport squadron ) operated 13 Douglas C-47 ' Dakota ' transports, eight Cessna 180 ' Skywagon ' light utility aircraft, seven Cessna 185 ( U-17B ) ' Skywagon ' light utility aircraft, seven Beech 18 ( C-45 ) ' Expeditor ' trainer & utility aircraft, six De Havilland Canada DHC-3 ( U-1A ) ' Otter ' STOL utility transports, five CASA C-212 Aviocar medium transports, two IAI Arava 201 STOL utility transports, two Piper PA-23-250 ' Aztec ' twin-engined light piston utility transports, one Hawker Siddeley HS-125-600B mid-size business jet and one Rockwell Aero Commander 680FL ' Grand ' utility transport.

During this period, the marketing department followed the lead of Detroit automobile manufacturers and came up with many marketing slogans and buzzwords to describe Cessna ’ s product line in an attempt to place their products ahead of the competition.

Sensation of the meet was the youngster Eddie Schneider, 19, who fell into last place by a forced landing of his Cessna and a three-day delay in Kentucky, then fought his way back to finish third, ahead of all other light planes.

On 8 November 2008, at the AOPA Expo, CEO Jack Pelton indicated that Cessna sales of aircraft to individual buyers had fallen but piston and turboprop sales to business had not.

* 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.

Robinson currently produces three models — the two-seat R22, the four-seat R44, both of which use Lycoming piston engines virtually identical to those found in fixed-wing general aviation aircraft, such as the Cessna 172, and the five seat R66 which uses a turbine.

Most aviation piston engines are air-cooled, including most of the engines currently ( 2005 ) manufactured by Lycoming and Continental and used by major manufacturers of light aircraft Cirrus, Cessna and so on.

It was powered by a 185 hp ( 138 kW ) Curtiss-Wright RC2-60 Wankel rotary engine ; the same engine model was also flown in a Cessna Cardinal and other airplanes and a helicopter.

The O-200 powered a very important airplane design milestone: the Cessna 150.

Between 1912 and 1915, Cessna developed several new monoplanes, all powered by a 6-cylinder Anzani Radial with 40 – 60 hp.

CFB Comox is used by the Royal Canadian Air Cadets for glider and powered flight training, training Glider Pilots on Schweizer SGS 2-33A's and housing the cadets training on Cessna 172's respectively in the summer months.

Twenty-four hours into her quest, her Cessna 177B Cardinal single engine propeller aircraft, flown by her flight instructor, crashed after takeoff from Cheyenne Regional Airport in Cheyenne, Wyoming, killing all on board: Dubroff, her father, and her flight instructor.

The flight would be made in Reid's Cessna 177B Cardinal, a four-seat single-engine propeller aircraft manufactured in 1975, registered N35207, which like most aircraft had dual flight controls in the front.

The airline operated various types of propeller aircraft, including the Cessna 170, de Havilland Dove and Fokker F27.

Image: FedEx Cessna 208B Grand Caravan front. JPG | Controllable pitch propeller on the singe-turboprop of a FedEx Cessna 208B Grand Caravan

* The propeller may be ahead of the tail: inside the framework ( Farman III ), in line with the fuselage ( RFB Fantrainer ), between tail booms ( Cessna Skymaster ), above the fuselage on wing ( Quad City Challenger ), on nacelle or axial pod ( Lake Buccaneer ), or coaxially around rear fuselage ( Gallaudet D-4 ).

Twin boomers such as the Cessna Skymaster and Adam A500 have the aircraft's tail suspended via twin booms behind the pusher propeller.

Flights on Cape Air linked Boston and Plattsburgh on Cessna 402 propeller aircraft, but were dropped in early 2010 in favor of Colgan Air flights with larger aircraft.

Aircraft with center-line thrust propeller configurations ( e. g. the Cessna 337 ) may still have a critical engine, if failure of one engine ( either the front or rear ) has more of a negative effect on aircraft control or climb performance than failure of the other engine.

* Cessna, the entire range of propeller driven aircraft from the Cessna 120 up to the Cessna Caravan