Cessna 172

One of the most popular touring aircraft of all time, the Cessna 172 has gained a place in the history books. A four seat aircraft, the 172 is a simple to fly, forgiving aircraft that is ideal for sightseeing with its high wing design.

The Cessna Model 170/172 and its immediate successors of the same family have the double distinction of being the best-selling series of lightplanes of all time, and also the most widely produced aircraft series yet developed, well over 30,000 examples having come off the production lines by the 1980s.

The origins of the series stretch back to 1948, when Cessna introduced the Model 170, itself little more than a four-Model 170 were improved radically, and all subsequent Cessna aircraft of the type have been designed round similar flaps.

In 1955 the company developed the Model 172, which was essentially a Model 172B with detail improvements and the tail wheel landing gear replaced by a spatted tricycle unit. The improved ground safety of the new variant proved immediately attractive, and in 1956 some 1,170 Model l72s were sold, compared with a mere 174 of the Model 170B, whose production was terminated.

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Purchase Information $3.95 Cessna 172 designed by Larry McLeod Instructions and LARGE version shown below- (Smaller version included in folder).. Back to Light Aircraft

What people say... I have just finished building a regular size Cessna 172 and I would like to extend my thanks and admiration to Larry Mcleod. This is a fabulous model! The results are startling and much better than I had anticipated before I started building. I had been wanting Fiddlers Green to publish a C-172 model for some time, but this is better than I had even hoped for. Cessna wing. I would like to hear other builders advice in this regard. Next I will have to build Larry's version of Glamorous Glen III.YMP, -Jim Gausman General aviation is alive and well at FG! All those aircraft and not a gun or missile anywhere. Wow! The Cessna 172 looks like it is owned by a Green Bay Packers fan who graduated from Baylor (green and yellow!), or Oregon. John T I started building a larger version, but it will never get the landing gear attached because I found that with two pennies in the nose, it is a great flyer. My son and I have been playing catch with it. The elevators require a good upward bend, but we stand 20 feet apart outside and it flies great. We will pretend that it is a Cessna 172RG and leave the gear off.