Often, when we think of long-endurance flights, our first thoughts jump to military operations ... by that most humble of aircraft, the Cessna 172. From December 1958 to February 1959, Bob ...

The Cessna 172 is the most popular trainer aircraft in the world. The plane is manufactured by Kansas-based company Cessna. It belongs to the trainer class of aircraft, which means it's built ...

The wings were adopted from the first military variant of the aircraft, which was used to train pilots. The same wings can be found on the Cessna 172 produced today. The C172 has 20 variants ...

However, the favorable flight characteristics of the 172 have also seen the aircraft used as military trainers with the ...