The Cessna Model A is a 1920s

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high-wing four-seat tourer built by the Cessna Aircraft Company, the first in a long line of high-wing single-engined monoplanes.

Design and development

The first Cessna design built in any numbers was the Cessna Model A, a four-seater with a mixed wood and steel-tube construction with fabric covering. The aircraft was built in a number of variants fitted with different engines. The prototype (Model AC) first flew in 1927 and the first production aircraft appeared in the following year.

Variants

;Model AA :Fitted with a 120 hp (89 kW) Anzani 10 engine, 14 built. ;Model AC :Fitted with a 130 hp (97 kW)

Comet 7-RA The Comet 7-cylinder radials were a family of air-cooled radial engines, designed and built by the Comet Engine Corporation at Madison, Wisconsin from around 1927. Design and development Comet designed the 7-cylinder radial series to take advan ...

engine, one built. ;Model AF :Fitted with a 150 hp (112 kW) Floco/Axelson engine, three built. ;Model AS :Fitted with a 125 hp (93 kW)

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engine, four built. ;Model AW :Fitted with a 125 hp (93 kW)

Warner Scarab The Warner Scarab is an American seven-cylinder radial aircraft engine, that was manufactured by the Warner Aircraft Corporation of Detroit, Michigan in 1928 through to the early 1940s. In military service the engine was designated R-420. Vari ...

engine, 48 built. One was purchased by

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in which he set three transcontinental airspeed records for pilots under the age of twenty-one in 1930. ;Model BW :A three-seat version with a 220 hp (164 kW)

Wright J-5 The Wright R-790 Whirlwind was a series of nine-cylinder air-cooled radial aircraft engines built by Wright Aeronautical Corporation, with a total displacement of about and around . These engines were the earliest members of the Wright Whirlwin ...

engine, 13 built.

Specifications (Cessna AA)

Design and development

Variants

Specifications (Cessna AA)

References

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