Includes First Public Ground Display Of The NGP!

Cessna Aircraft Company tells ANN it is featuring a special display at the Lakeland Fly-In in central Florida April 17–23, 2007 in honor of the company’s 80th Anniversary. The planemaker plans to highlight its past... while also showing some tantalizing glimpses of its future.

The display inside the 2,400 sq ft Cessna Center building will include a current aircraft model display, a photographic display of current and historical aircraft, and several trophies... including the 1996 Collier Trophy, awarded to the Citation X Team for creating the fastest commercial aircraft built in the United States; the 1936 Detroit News Trophy awarded to former Cessna President Dwane Wallace for winning the Efficiency Contest in the All American Air Races in Miami in the Cessna Airmaster; and the 1936 Amelia Earhart Trophy awarded to Betty Browning for winning the Closed Course Race For Women Pilots at the National Air Races in Los Angeles, also in a Cessna Airmaster.

The aircraft model display inside the Cessna Center will include all 13 Cessna aircraft types currently in production. There are nine Citation jets designed for business operations, a turboprop powered Caravan, and three models of single engine aircraft.

With the exception of the Citation Mustang, all Cessna’s Citation jets and the Caravan are manufactured at the Mid-Continent plant in Wichita. The Mustang and all single engine piston aircraft are assembled at the Independence, KS facility.

Aircraft on display outside the Cessna Center will include the Citation Mustang, Citation CJ1+, Grand Caravan, Turbo 182, Turbo 206, Skyhawk SP... as well as the first public ground display of Cessna's Next Generation Piston proof-of-concept aircraft, first seen in a few all-to-quick fly-bys at Oshkosh 2006 (below). 

Cessna is flying the NGP to the event; as of Sunday, the aircraft was in Jackson, MS.

Cessna's Light Sport Aircraft proof-of-concept airplane will also be displayed.

FMI: www.cessna.com