In 2002 the SR22 passed the Cessna 172 as the world's bestselling single-engine plane.

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Once he was alone in the plane, a Cessna 172, he started the engine and took off without permission around 5 p.m.

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Next year I may still be flying a Cessna 172, or a paper kite (if Nasdaq hits 1100), or something wonderfully sleek.

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Researchers at the University of North Dakota, working with NASA and others, recently flew a Cirrus SR22 equipped with special software to see if it could sense and avoid conflicts with a nearby Cessna 172.

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The golf-course plane, a single-engine Cessna 172, was flying west at an altitude of 3, 500 feet when the second plane, also a Cessna 172, approached from the east after leaving Santa Monica Airport for a test flight.

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He suggests that a remanufactured Cessna 172 with a new engine (that burns something other than the diminishing supply of 100LL), new avionics, new paint and an updated interior might cost about half the price of a brand new one.

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