3 September 2005
Cessna Aircraft Company reached a new milestone at the end of August with its 6,000th customer delivery since the company’s Independence, Kansas facility opened in 1996. ‘We’ve taught the world to fly – more people have learned to fly in a Cessna than any other manufacturer’s airplane,’ said Roger Whyte, Cessna’s senior vice president of sales and marketing.
The 6,000th aircraft was sold to Dana Atkinson, president of Anson Air, a Cessna Pilot Center, in Sugar Land, Texas. Atkinson purchased a Garmin G1000-equipped 182T Skylane in December, and now adds his new 172S Skyhawk NAV III with the G1000 to his fleet of 11 aircraft.
Cessna discontinued single engine production in Wichita in 1986. The company re-entered the single engine piston aircraft market after the 1994 passage of the U.S. General Aviation Revitalization Act. Throughout Cessna’s 78-year history, more than 150,000 single engine piston aircraft have been delivered, making Cessna’s single engine fleet the largest in the world.
