Cessna Model A

{{Short description|1920s American Touring Aircraft}}  {{Infobox aircraft |name = Model A |image = File:Cessna AW Yanks Chino 05.01.08R.jpg |caption = Cessna AW at Yanks Museum, Chino, California |type = Four-seat tourer |manufacturer = Cessna Aircraft Company |designer = Clyde Cessna |first_flight = 1927 |introduction = |retired = |status = |primary_user = private owners |more_users = |produced = |number_built = 83 |unit cost = |developed_from = |variants = }}

The '''Cessna Model A''' is a 1920s American 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.<ref name=Lailes1/>

The prototype (Model AC) first flew in 1927 and the first production aircraft appeared in the following year.<ref name=Simpson>{{cite book |title= Airlife's World Aircraft|last=Simpson|first=Rod| year=2001|publisher=Airlife Publishing Ltd |location=Shrewsbury |isbn=1-84037-115-3|page=132}}</ref>

==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 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) Siemens-Halske engine, four built. ;Model AW :Fitted with a 125 hp (93 kW) Warner Scarab engine, 48 built.<ref name=greatlake>{{cite news |first= Leo A.|last= Kieran|title=Fast Flying Marked Ford Tour. Full-Throttle Speeds for Most of 4,900-Mile Route in Canada and Northwest Gave New Practical Meaning to Reliability Test. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/10/05/archives/fast-flying-marked-ford-tour-fullthrottle-speeds-for-most-of.html |work=The New York Times |date=October 5, 1930|accessdate=2016-09-08 }}</ref> ;Model BW :A three-seat version with a 220 hp (164 kW) Wright J-5 engine, 13 built.

==Specifications (Cessna AA) == thumb|Cessna AF 3-view drawing from Aero Digest March 1928 {{Aircraft specs |ref=Les Ailes, May 1928<ref name=Lailes1>{{cite journal |last=Serryer |first=J. |date=3 May 1928|title=Le monoplane Cessna|journal=Les Ailes|issue=359|pages=5|url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k65683900/f5}}</ref> |prime units?=imp  |genhide=

|crew=Two pilots |capacity=Two passengers |length m=7.23 |length note= |span m=12.36 |span note= |height m=2.24 |height note= |wing area sqm=20.6 |wing area note= |aspect ratio= |airfoil= |empty weight kg=566 |empty weight note= |gross weight kg=1031 |gross weight note= |max takeoff weight kg= |max takeoff weight lb= |max takeoff weight note= |fuel capacity={{convert|160|L|USgal Impgal|abbr=on|order=flip}} |more general=  |eng1 number=1 |eng1 name=Anzani 10 |eng1 type=10-cylinder radial |eng1 hp=120 |eng1 note=

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|max speed kmh=185 |max speed note= |cruise speed kmh=161 |cruise speed note= |stall speed kmh=72 |stall speed note=minimum speed |never exceed speed kmh= |never exceed speed mph= |never exceed speed kts= |never exceed speed note= |minimum control speed kmh= |minimum control speed mph= |minimum control speed kts= |minimum control speed note= |range km= |range miles= |range nmi= |range note= |endurance= |ceiling m=2135 |ceiling note= |g limits= |roll rate= |glide ratio= |climb rate ms= |climb rate ftmin= |climb rate note= |time to altitude= |sink rate ms= |sink rate ftmin= |sink rate note= |lift to drag= |wing loading kg/m2= |wing loading lb/sqft= |wing loading note= |fuel consumption kg/km= |fuel consumption lb/mi= |power/mass= |more performance= }}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== {{commons category|Cessna Model A}} *{{cite book |title= The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985)|publisher= Orbis Publishing}}

A Category:High-wing aircraft Category:Single-engined tractor aircraft Category:1920s United States civil utility aircraft Category:Aircraft first flown in 1927 Category:Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear Category:Single-engined piston aircraft