Cessna 172

Air Plains is offering a new, advanced panel kit for Cessna 172 owners who are planning to upgrade their aircraft engines with the company’s 180 hp supplemental type certificate.

As the author deals with a case of deja vu, some friends make a mundane task a lot more fun.

The addition brings Liberty’s fleet to 27 aircraft.

Speed is a difficult topic. It unites and divides us. Pilots and nonpilots obsess over it, always asking how fast a given airplane can travel to whatever destination. We compare cruise speeds, time to climb, mixture-tweaking, and other tricks for squeezing out a few more knots. Sometimes it seems like we all wish we could […]

Going places in small airplanes is rewarding but requires compromises.

When hazy conditions combine with clouds of snow geese, a pilot learns the value of over communicating and ADS-B.

ATP Flight School accepted delivery of eight new Garmin G-1000 NXi-equipped Cessna 172 Skyhawks from Textron Aviation during the week of September 1. This brings the number of training aircraft at ATP to more than 410 around the world. ATP said in a news release that its expansion is still being driven by the long-term […]

The Civil Air Patrol has inked a contract with Textron Aviation for 17 piston aircraft, including 11 172S Skyhawks, 5 182T Skylanes, and a T206HD Stationair. The aircraft join a fleet of nearly 550 Cessna aircraft on the CAP’s flightlines, and they were purchased using fiscal year 2020 funds. “From search and rescue, to disaster […]