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Model 180 Skywagon
Type Light utility aircraft
Manufacturer Cessna Aircraft Company
Introduced 1953
Produced 1953-1981
Number built 6,193
Variants Cessna 182
Cessna 185

The Cessna 180 is a four- or six-seat, fixed conventional gear general aviation airplane which was produced between 1953 and 1981. A utility aircraft is a general-purpose light plane or helicopter usually used for transporting people or freight but also for other duties when a more specialised aircraft is not required An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing building testing selling and maintaining Aircraft, Aircraft parts The Cessna Aircraft Company is an airplane manufacturing corporation headquartered in Wichita, Kansas. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Conventional landing gear describes an Undercarriage arrangement consisting of two main weight-bearing wheels forward of the aircraft's Centre of gravity, the General aviation (abbr GA) is one of two categories of Civil aviation. Overview Fixed-wing aircraft range from small training and recreational aircraft to Wide-body aircraft and military cargo aircraft. This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1953: Events The first year in which the world's Airlines carried more than 50 million people ( This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1981: Events January January 3 - Pan Am makes its final Though the design is no longer in production, many of these aircraft are still in use as personal aircraft and in utility roles such as bush flying. Bush flying is a term for air operations carried out in remote regions of the world

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Design and development

1960 Cessna 180 Skywagon
1960 Cessna 180 Skywagon

Cessna introduced the heavier and more powerful 180, which eventually came to be known as the Skywagon (a name first applied only to the more-powerful 185) as a complement to the Cessna 170. The Cessna Aircraft Company is an airplane manufacturing corporation headquartered in Wichita, Kansas. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout In all its versions, 6,193 Cessna 180s were manufactured. In 1956, a tricycle gear version of this design was introduced as the Cessna 182, which came to bear the name Skylane. This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1956: Events March March 10 - Lt Cdr Peter Twiss sets a new Tricycle gear describes an Aircraft Undercarriage, or landing gear, arranged in a Tricycle fashion WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Additionally, in 1960, Cessna introduced a heavier, more powerful sibling to the 180, the conventional gear Cessna 185. This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1960: Events January January 1 - Fiji Airways is reconstituted WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout For a time, all three versions of the design were in production. Though the tricycle gear 182 displaced some of the general demand for the 180, 180s continue to be valued for their capabilities as utility aircraft.

Design

The airframe of the 180 is all metal, constructed of aluminum alloy. WikipediaNaming The fuselage is a semi-monocoque structure, with exterior skin sheets riveted to formers and longerons. Monocoque, from the French for single ( mono) and shell ( coque) is a construction technique that supports structural load by using an object's external A former is a structural member of an Aircraft Fuselage, of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose to the Empennage, typically perpendicular In Aircraft construction a Longeron or Stringer is a thin strip of wood or metal to which the skin of the aircraft is fastened The strut-braced wings, likewise, are constructed of exterior skin sheets riveted to spars and ribs. In an aircraft the spar is the main structural member of the wing running widthways across the span of the wing at right angles (or thereabouts to the Fuselage. In an Aircraft, ribs are forming elements of the structure of a Wing, especially in traditional construction The landing gear of the 180 is in a conventional arrangement, with main gear legs made of spring steel, and a steerable tailwheel mounted on a hollow tapered steel tube.

The Continental O-470-A of 225 horsepower was installed in the 1953 model, which uniquely has no baggage door. The Continental O-470-J, also of 225 horsepower, replaced the -A model in 1954 and 1955, and was succeeded by the O-470-K from 1956 through 1961, by the O-470-R from 1962 through 1972, by the O-470-S from 1973 through 1976, and by the O-470-U from 1977 through the end of production. The O-470 was uprated to 230 horsepower during that time.

Cessna 180s produced between 1953 and 1963 have two side windows, while 1964 to 1981 models feature three side windows, as they feature the same fuselage as the Cessna 185.

180s can be put on floats if they are equipped with factory-installed float kits, which are essentially reinforcing members installed at high-stress points of the fuselage. A pontoon is a flat-bottomed Boat or the floats used to support a structure on water Float-kitted Cessna 180s produced between 1975 and 1981 have the larger dorsal fin of the 185.

Operational history

1960 Cessna 180 at White River Canyon, Utah, a remote airstrip
1960 Cessna 180 at White River Canyon, Utah, a remote airstrip

The 180 is considered a workhorse of an airplane, and is favored to this day as a bush plane by many who fly to and from remote, unimproved airstrips in places such as Alaska and distant parts of Canada, the Pacific Islands, and Africa. A bush plane is a General aviation Aircraft serving remote undeveloped areas of a country usually the African bush Alaskan and Canadian Alaska ( Аляска Alyaska) is a state in the United States of America, in the northwest of the North American continent Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The Pacific Ocean contains an estimated 20000 to 30000 Islands (the exact number has yet to be precisely determined The 180 is the preferred aircraft of the Colorado Division of Wildlife for monitoring wildlife and re-stocking fish in remote mountain lakes; it is also used by the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. Montana ( is a state in the Western United States. One-third of the state in the western part contains numerous mountain ranges (approximately 77 named of the northern

The Canadian airlines Lamb Air and Norcanair operated several 180s. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page An airline provides air transport services for Passengers or Freight, generally with a recognized operating certificate or license Lamb Air Ltd was an Airline that began operations in 1934 in The Pas, Manitoba, Canada that went out of business in 1981 Norcanair was the name of a Canadian airline that existed from 1947 to 1987 and again briefly in the early 1990s and from 2001 to 2005 A number of 180s continue in similar roles at Kenmore Air in Washington, Alaska Seaplane Service, and Brazil's Lider Taxi Aereo. Kenmore Air is an American Airline based in the small town of Kenmore, Washington, USA on Lake Washington north of Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Alaska Seaplane Service is an Airline based in Juneau, Alaska, USA. Líder Aviação (formerly Líder Taxi Aéreo) is a Brazilian Airline specialising in Air charter, aircraft sales and aircraft maintenance

Record flight

Jerrie Mock's Cessna 180
Jerrie Mock's Cessna 180

The Cessna 180 gained recognition as the aircraft chosen by Geraldine Mock, the first woman pilot to successfully fly around the world. Geraldine "Jerrie" Fredritz Mock (born November 22 1925 in Newark Ohio) was the first woman to fly around the world. The flight was made in 1964 in her 1953 model, the Spirit of Columbus (N1538C), as chronicled in her book Three-Eight Charlie. [1] The Cessna factory obtained the aircraft and kept it at the Pawnee (Wichita, Kansas) manufacturing plant after the epic flight, suspended from the ceiling over one of the manufacturing lines. It is currently on display at the National Air and Space Museum. The National Air and Space Museum (NASM of the Smithsonian Institution is a museum in Washington D

Aircraft Type Club

The Cessna 180 is supported by an active aircraft type club, The Cessna Pilots Association. Aircraft type clubs are organizations that provide information and support to a single aircraft type or a group of aircraft types from the same manufacturer or family of aircraft [2]

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Military operators

Specifications (180)

General characteristics

Performance


References

  1. ^ Mock, Jerrie: Three-Eight Charlie, First Edition, 1970. An airfoil (in American English) or aerofoil (in British English) is the shape of a Wing or blade (of a Propeller, rotor The Maximum Takeoff Weight or Maximum Takeoff Mass of an Aircraft is the maximum weight at which the pilot of the aircraft is allowed to attempt to take off In Aviation, V-speeds or Velocity-speeds are standard terms used to define Airspeeds important or useful to the operation of Aircraft, such The maximal total range is the distance an Aircraft can fly between Takeoff and Landing, as limited by fuel capacity in powered aircraft or cross-country In Aeronautics, a ceiling is the maximum Density altitude an aircraft can reach under a set of conditions In Aerodynamics, the rate of climb RoC is the speed at which an Aircraft increases its Altitude. ISBN 75118975
  2. ^ Cessna Pilots Association (2006). Benefits of Membership. Retrieved on 2008-05-17. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1521 - Edward Stafford 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for Treason.
  3. ^ Unit History. 161 Possums of Vietnam. Retrieved on 2006-09-18. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 96 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated

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