Cessna 188

what is it?

The Cessna 188 is a family of light agricultural aircraft produced between 1966 and 1983 by the Cessna Aircraft Company. The various versions of the 188 included the AGwagon, AGpickup, AGtruck and AGhusky, along with the AGcarryall variant of the Cessna 185 Skywagon, and constituted Cessna's line of agricultural aircraft.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 12.7 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 195 km/htop speed
• size 1,905 kgmax take-off weight
• built 3,976made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 61 years ago, in 1965.
• 🚗Wingspan of 12.7 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

1965-02-19

introduced

1966

number built

3,976

role

light agricultural airplane

makers

Cessna

engines

1× Continental IO-520-D

crew

1

length

8 m

wingspan

12.7 m

height

2.3 m

max take-off weight

1,905 kg

top speed

195 km/h

cruise speed

182 km/h

range

—

ceiling

3,383 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.