The Great Uses Of The Cessna 152

The Cessna 152 is airplane model that is primarily used for flight training and many of today’s expert pilots started their flying lessons using the indomitable and stubborn Cessna 152. This plane is an American two-seater with a fixed tricycle landing gear and is mainly used for general aviation as well flight training. As a result of improvements on the Cessna 150, the very first Cessna 152 came out in 1977 and it was designed and released by the Cessna Aircraft Company in response to the growing popularity of the Beechcraft Skipper and the Piper Tomahawk both designed and produced by two of Cessna’s closest industry rivals and these two plane models were released on the very same year. The Cessna Aircraft Company made more revisions and adjustments on the Cessna 152 by improving the planes useful load to one thousand six hundred seventy pounds while at the same time greatly reducing both external and internal noise levels which helps the pilot in so many ways. And as an additional feature, the Cessna 152 now runs better using the 100LL fuel.

Just like the Cessna 150, most of the 152s were built on the Wichita, Kansas plant but some were commissioned to the Cessna European counterpart Reims Aviation in France and these Cessnas were tagged as F152 and FA152, the F representing France. The year 1985 brought the end for the production of the Cessna 152 together with all of Cessna’s Light aircraft and up to that point, there was a total of more than seven thousand five hundred Cessna 152s built which includes the F152 and the FA152s built in France. Four years ago, Cessna announced that it will be building a Cessna 152 successor, the Cessna 162 which will be named as the Skycatcher.

All of the Cessna 152s that were produced were equipped with the O-235 Lycoming engine, a deviation from the US built Cessna 150s that were built with Continental O-200-A engines and the Reims Aviation models that were powered with the Rolls Royce O-240-A engines. The Lycoming engine provided additional thrust power and it was more compatible with the most recent low lead 100LL fuel. However, a more powerful engine was used in Cessna 152s that were made between the years 1977 to 1982 and the new Lycoming O-235-L2C 110 horsepower engines were used. In 1983, due to the lead-fouling issued associated with the new Lycoming engine, the O-235-N2C was used and this new engine model employed a different piston design and an adjusted combustion chamber that greatly reduces the lead problem and the same N2C engine was used until the end of the 152 fabrication in 1985.

By: A. James David

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James David teaches people how to buy single engine airplanes & has a passion for the Cessna 152