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 ...

Moreover, the Cessna 172 joined the world's military. The US Air Force developed and procured an improved military version of the Skyhawk for initial flight screening of potential pilots.

Cessna will always be known as a general aviation company. But Cessna has in fact crafted a formidable and proven wartime ...

There’s hardly a pilot flying today who hasn’t logged at least a few hours in a Cessna 172 Skyhawk ... Beginning in 1993 the U.S. military phased out the Mescalero in favor of more aerobatic ...