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what is it?
The Cessna Model A is a 1920s American high-wing four-seat tourer built by the Cessna Aircraft Company, the first in a long line of high-wing single-engined monoplanes.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · high wing · 12.4 m wingspan
base stats
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 99 years ago, in 1927.
- Wingspan of 12.4 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
- 1927
- introduced
- 1928
- number built
- 83
- role
- four-seat tourer
- makers
- Cessna
- engines
- 1× Anzani 10 / Anzani 10-cylinder
- length
- 7.2 m
- wingspan
- 12.4 m
- height
- 2.2 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,031 kg
- top speed
- 185 km/h
- cruise speed
- 161 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 2,135 m
- wings
- high wing
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3665640, Wikipedia: Cessna Model A (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.