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In 1956, Cessna released the Cessna 172 which went on to become the most produced airplane in history.

1963 saw Cessna produce its 50, 000 airplane, a Cessna 172.

* 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.

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

* 1978 – PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.

Brooklands Flying Club are based at Sywell and fly the Aero AT-3 and Cessna 172 which are used as trainers for Private Pilot Licenses ( PPL ), Joint Aviation Requirements ( JAR ) and night rating training.

Propeller engines may be quieter than jet engines ( though not always ) and may cost less to purchase maintain and so remain common on light general aviation aircraft such as the Cessna 172.

In 1965, the Cessna T-41A, a four-seat, single-engine, propeller-driven training aircraft based on the Cessna 172 arrived at Moody and was used in the initial phases of student training.

At approximately 8: 50 PM central time on the night of April 6, 2009, a Cessna 172 airplane that was stolen from a flight training school in Ontario, Canada landed on U. S. Highway 60 in Ellsinore, flown by a despondent flight student wishing to commit suicide.

In 1969, on the eve of his 46th birthday, Marciano was a passenger in a small private plane, a Cessna 172 headed to Des Moines, Iowa.

FlightGear started out with an aircraft included in NASA's LaRCsim, a Navion, which was replaced by a Cessna 172 by 2000.

* Charles J. Bishop, an American pilot, steals a Cessna 172 and crashes into Bank of America Tower in Tampa, Florida.

* Complete specifications and data for each Cessna 172 model year

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