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To: wastedyears

Would that be a Skyhawk 172 or the jet version?????


5 posted on 09/18/2008 6:43:13 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("I Believe In The Law Until It Interferes With Justice")
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Cessna Aircraft has decided to outfit its best-selling 172 Skyhawk with a diesel engine. Starting in the middle of next year, Cessna dealers will sell the Skyhawk TD powered by a 155-hp Thielert turbocharged diesel engine installed under an FAA supplemental type certificate (STC).

Cessna officials had expected to see more demand for the Skyhawk TD outside the U.S., where avgas prices are much higher than in the U.S., according to John Doman, vice president for worldwide propeller aircraft sales. But since it announced the jet-A-powered Skyhawk TD at the AOPA Expo early last month, he said, “domestically the dealer organizations are ordering them in greater numbers than we expected.”

wow....turbocharged diesel engine ....no joke

14 posted on 09/18/2008 6:56:54 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass ("Annoy the media, elect PALIN and McCAIN....errr....McCAIN / PALIN.....MCPALIN" 8^)
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To: SkyDancer

The 172


17 posted on 09/18/2008 11:59:41 PM PDT by wastedyears (Now sadly living in the DPRNYC [Brooklyn])
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