Sleek, robust, and with roots that clearly traced back to the company’s commercially successful Cessna 170. It would not be wrong to characterize the original 180 as a “Super 170”. It married the classic exterior lines with a modern spinner design and an all-new square vertical stabilizer top. The campaigns of the time made no secret about their intended audience: Cessna had branded their new creation as “the businessman’s airplane,” owning up to its expanded and comfortable passenger cabin that made the trip a lot more enjoyable for those not sitting behind the controls. What Cessna did not know at the time was that they had, in fact, introduced what would eventually become a staple of down and dirty, backcountry bush flying! In hindsight, its “Skywagon” moniker could not have been more perfect. Even today, many of these planes are still in use as personal aircraft or light utility aircraft for bush flying.
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