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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 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
The Basler Turbo 37/Spectrum SA-550 is a twin-boom single engined aircraft converted from a Reims/Cessna FTB337G Skymaster by Basler Turbo Conversions and Spectrum Aircraft Corporation. The aircraft first flew on 1 February 1983. [1] [2] [3]
Cessna (/ ˈ s ɛ s n ə / [4]) is an American brand of general aviation aircraft owned by Textron Aviation since 2014, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas.Originally, it was a brand of the Cessna Aircraft Company, an American general aviation aircraft manufacturing corporation also headquartered in Wichita.
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.
The prototypes of the Mizar were made by mating the rear portion of a Cessna Skymaster to a Ford Pinto. [2] The pod-and-twin-boom configuration of the Skymaster was a convenient starting point for a hybrid automobile/airplane. The passenger space and front engine of the Skymaster were removed, leaving an airframe ready to attach to a small car.
A Cessna A-37B Dragonfly of the 603d Special Operations Squadron, 1st SOW, Hurlburt Field, Florida, May 1970. It was transferred to the Republic of Vietnam Air Force, 1972. This is a list of A-37B Dragonfly squadrons of the United States Air Force. Cessna Aircraft built a total of 577 A-37B's.