Most pilots are introduced to tailwheel flying in small, two-place types such as the Piper Cub, Aeronca Champ and Cessna 140—airplanes ... that lacks the curved dorsal fin of the later 170s.

These models are the Cessna 170, 172, 172XP, 175, and 177 ... the 172A in 1960 with revised landing gear and swept-back tail fin. In 1963, the 172D introduced the lowered rear deck, allowing ...

One is that after having flown Melmoth less than an hour and finding that it shook its booty provocatively with flaps down, I got a Cessna dorsal fin from a junkyard in Long Beach, California ...

In 1956, Cessna started building the 172 training plane - and more than 60 years on, it’s still in production. Why has it been so popular? It can seat four people, in a squeeze, and weighs a ...