The Cessna 172 was first produced in 1956 and continues to be built today. The plane is based on the Cessna 170, an aircraft with a taildragger landing gear. Cessna modified the landing gear into ...
They were the two-seat Cessna 150, the four-passenger Cessna 172 and its bigger brother ... cut out and forced him to make a dead-stick landing. Luck was with Lux that day.