He chose the Cessna O-1 Bird Dog ... His reflections sum up much of what we tailwheel pilots feel about the airplanes we fly. More demanding and less forgiving, they make us earn every decent ...

For an airplane developed during the sad, slow GA days of the mid 1980s that many predicted to have no market, the company ...

A few years later and a after a further few hundred hours were added, it was traded to us for a Cessna 180 Taildragger with 850 Hours TT. Then we then sold it again to the next owner who has had it ...

While modest compared to warbird fighters and bombers, this is no Cessna Skyhawk ... “I call it a 5,000-pound tail-dragger with a mean streak,” says Steve Larmore, who has logged 4,600 ...

His father was an airline pilot, who flew Cessna O-1 Bird Dogs in Vietnam ... to fly as his great grandfather did—in an open-cockpit taildragger. He may have the chance. His grandmother, Nancy ...

The Cessna 172 is one of the most iconic planes in aviation history. This four-seat, single-engine plane was introduced in 1956 and has become the go-to for recreational pilots around the world.

Textron Aviation division McCauley Propeller featured its four-blade aluminum constant speed propeller for the Cessna Grand Caravan EX at Aero Friedrichshafen 2025 in Germany. Credit: Bill Carey ...

The company is calling on Cessna, Beechcraft and Hawker aircraft owners and operators to come together on Friday, June 19, 2026, and Saturday, June 27, 2026, to enable champions from all corners ...