Prince's company had eight Cessna aircraft in Afghanistan, working for the Department of Defense.
Cessna Aircraft used Dassault's software to design a new entry-level business jet, the Citation Mustang.
It is the Mustang from incumbent Cessna Aircraft, which has made more than 6, 000 jets since its first Cessna Citation rolled off the assembly line in 1972.
In fact, the only new jet under 10, 000 pounds that is flying is the Mustang from incumbent Cessna Aircraft, which has made more than 5, 000 jets since its first Citation rolled off the assembly line in 1969.
The collection was introduced in March at the Baselworld trade fair in Basel, Switzerland, along with a cross-marketing campaign in the U.S. and Europe with U.S.-based airplane manufacturer Cessna Aircraft and Swiss-based private air service company, PrivatAir.
So I headed to the tiny airstrip in Haines Junction, the closest village to Kluane, and climbed aboard a six-seat Cessna 207 aircraft.
After just six years of selling FAA-certified aircraft, the Duluth, Minn. privately held company in 2005 surpassed Cessna in sales of piston aircraft, as measured by dollar volume.
I'm not knocking the fine aircraft produced by Cessna and the like.
Since late 2003, Baron claims, Sirius XM has sold "tens of thousands" of subscriptions to Baron's service. (Sirius declines to confirm that.) The devices can be found in newer Cessna, Cirrus and Piper aircraft and can be installed in boats and various mobile GPS gadgets for hunters and fishermen.
Cessna is perhaps the most successful aircraft manufacturer at recycling their own creations, and the company does so until it finds absolutely winning designs.
It is a slow aircraft as jets go, but Cessna builds them to perfection.
After Cessna demonstration pilot John Reimer walked us around the aircraft, we climbed aboard and I slid into the captain's seat.
In only eight years, Cirrus piston aircraft sales have surpassed Beechcraft, Mooney, Piper and Cessna.
Cessna, Piper and a new company called Cirrus, began building training aircraft again, and student pilot starts, which had eroded significantly, showed signs of growth.
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While other manufacturers attempt to be revolutionary and develop aircraft from scratch to beat the competition by a wide margin, Cessna has taken the less risky evolutionary approach of using new permutations of proven technology.
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