Many fans of vintage aircraft like the squared-off tail and “fastback” fuselage shape of the Cessna 172 Skyhawk.

With more than 43,000 built, Cessna's 172 ranks as the most successful light airplane ever. Redbird's Skyhawk project, which it calls the "Redhawk," takes an existing Skyhawk and makes it like a ...

Flying light general aviation planes became more convenient than ever before when the Cessna 172 Skyhawk was introduced in 1956, quickly becoming the most popular airplane in the world.

Read all three installments here. There is a very good chance that the pilot on your last airline flight once trained on a tiny Cessna 172 Skyhawk. It is a slow, stable, possibly even boring bug ...

There’s hardly a pilot flying today who hasn’t logged at least a few hours in a Cessna 172 Skyhawk. It’s the world’s best-selling single-engine airplane, with more than 35,000 built since ...

Fine choice, but the right one? After all, there was another aircraft that also first flew in 1955, Cessna’s Model 172 Skyhawk, a Mach 0.17 (125 mph) performer versus Crusader’s Mach 1.2. And ...

Cessna has delivered more than 43,000 172 Skyhawk planes in their history, which makes it a perfect place to start for the first commercial all-electric airplane. The Skyhawk is a four-seat ...