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The Cessna Skymaster is an American twin-engine civil utility aircraft built in a push-pull configuration. Its engines are mounted in the nose and rear of its pod-style fuselage. Twin booms extend aft of the wings to the vertical stabilizers , with the rear engine between them.
O-2B Skymaster dropping leaflets over Vietnam. The USAF took delivery of the O-2 Skymaster in March 1967 and the O-2A also entered the U.S. Army's inventory during 1967, from USAF stock. By June 1970, when production stopped, a total of 532 O-2s had been built for the USAF. [1]
Cessna Skymaster, an American civil aircraft design; Cessna O-2 Skymaster, an American military aircraft design; Douglas C-54 Skymaster, an American military aircraft design (a variant of Douglas DC-4, which was sometimes also known as Skymaster.)
Cessna Model A: 1927 70 Single piston engine monoplane utility airplane Cessna Model BW: 13 Single piston engine monoplane utility airplane Cessna CG-2: Glider Cessna CH-1: 1953 ~50 Single piston engine utility helicopter Cessna CH-4: Single piston engine utility helicopter Cessna CR-1: 1 Single piston engine monoplane racer Cessna CR-2: 1930 1
On 24 February 1996 a Cuban Air Force Mikoyan MiG-29UB shot down two unarmed Cessna 337 Skymaster aircraft operated by Brothers to the Rescue, an organization opposed to the Cuban government. The Organisation of American States (OAS) reported that no warning was given; Cuban government sources said "These people knew what they were doing.
Any chance of getting statistics for these in active duty? Ie, how many were used in vietnam? How many were lost? Rhodesia's RhAF and Central Intelligence Organization also operated the O-2, though they called it the Lynx and it was armed a bit heavier than the O-2 was in Vietnam. 68.202.55.186 05:57, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
There must have been earlier "Skymasters". Churchill writes, in his book "The Second World War", that he flew at Christmas 1944 with his private "Skymaster" to Athens; refuelling was in Naples. <KDR. 110716.> Nothing to do with this Skymaster it was a four-engined transport see Douglas C-54 Skymaster.
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