Cessna
Some of the most popular flight training aircraft in the world come from the Cessna Aircraft Company. Cessna was founded in 1927 by a farmer called Clyde Cessna and partner Victor Roos, however, Roos was only a partner for a month before resigning and having his interest sold to Cessna. The Cessna DC-6 got certified in 1929 just as the stock market crashed. The great depression hit in 1932, and Cessna had to shut its doors. In 1934, Dwane and Dwight Wallace (Cessna’s nephews) came up with a plan and bought the company from their Uncle. In no time, Cessna began to grow to become the global brand that it has become today.
It may interest you to know that by 1963, Cessna had already rolled out its 50,000th aircraft- the single-engine Cessna 172, and by 1975 they had produced their 100,000th aircraft. A lot of flight schools in the United States use Cessna aircraft for their single-engine and multi-engine flight training. Some of the popular aircraft used for training include:
- Cessna 150/152
- Cessna 160
- Cessna 170
- Cessna 172
- Cessna 175
- Cessna 182
- Cessna 208
- Cessna 310
Many pilots began with a Cessna single-engine aircraft before moving over to multi-engine aircraft and you just may be on that path too in your pilot training.