AviationChatter.com » skycatcher http://www.aviationchatter.com Exercise Your License to Learn Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:02:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2006-2007 patflannigan@aviationchatter.com (AviationChatter.com) patflannigan@aviationchatter.com (AviationChatter.com) http://www.aviationchatter.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg AviationChatter.com http://www.aviationchatter.com 144 144 Exercise Your License to Learn AviationChatter.com AviationChatter.com patflannigan@aviationchatter.com no no Cessna Delivers First Skycatcher http://www.aviationchatter.com/2009/12/cessna-delivers-first-skycatcher/ http://www.aviationchatter.com/2009/12/cessna-delivers-first-skycatcher/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:38:01 +0000 Pat Flannigan http://www.aviationchatter.com/?p=1750

Cessna 162 SkycatcherCessna delivered the first Cessna 162 Skycatcher today. The aircraft was delivered during a ceremony at Yingling Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas – Cessna’s corporate headquarters. The first aircraft was delivered to Rose Pelton, the wife of Cessna CEO Jack Pelton.

The Skycatcher marks Cessna’s first foray into the new Light Sport Aircraft category which defines LSA’s as an aircraft with a maximum gross weight of 1,320 pounds and a top speed of 120 knots. Like all modern Cessna aircraft, the 162 features a fully integrated glass cockpit.

Cessna launched its Skycatcher program at EAA Airventure 2007 and has since amassed more than 1,000 orders for the light sport aircraft.

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