page_title: Cessna 152
section_title: Development
hierarchical_section_title: Cessna 152 / Development
caption_attribution_description: English: 1978 model-year Cessna 152, manufactured in 1977, registered C-GZSS, at Les Faucheurs de Marguerites at the Sherbrooke Quebec, Canada, airport on 2 July 2006
context_page_description: The Cessna 152 is an American two-seat, fixed-tricycle-gear, general aviation airplane, used primarily for flight training and personal use. It was based on the earlier Cessna 150 incorporating a number of minor design changes and a slightly more powerful engine with a longer time between overhaul.
  The Cessna 152 has been out of production for more than thirty years, but many are still airworthy and are still in regular use for flight training.
context_section_description: First delivered in 1977 as the 1978 model year, the 152 was a modernization of the proven Cessna 150 design. The 152 was intended to compete with the new Beechcraft Skipper and Piper Tomahawk, both of which were introduced the same year. Additional design goals were to improve useful load through a gross weight increase to 1,670 lb (760 kg), decrease internal and external noise levels and run better on the then newly introduced 100LL fuel.
  As with the 150, the great majority of 152s were built at the Cessna factory in Wichita, Kansas. A number of aircraft were also built by Reims Aviation of France and given the designation F152/FA152.
  Production of the 152 was ended in 1985 when Cessna ended production of all of their light aircraft; by that time, a total of 7,584 examples of the 152, including A152 and FA152 Aerobat aerobatic variants, had been built worldwide.
  In 2007 Cessna announced that it would build a light-sport successor, designated the Model 162 Skycatcher, although production ended in 2013.
caption: One of the first Cessna 152s produced, a 1978 model year built in 1977.
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