New Cessna debutes

[siucavflight]

Christ people, read. Its a LSA. Its supposed to be tiny.

Really? I would have thought that when it was finished it came out small, even though they intended it to be much larger.

 

[Gorilla]

The high prices for aircraft these days will eventually be the death knell for general aviation. $80K to the moon for a two seat LSA from any number of manufacturers? That's insane.

 

[siucavflight]

The high prices for aircraft these days will eventually be the death knell for general aviation. $80K to the moon for a two seat LSA from any number of manufacturers? That's insane.

But they are still selling a ton of them. I was at PWK a few weeks ago, and that place is loaded with 400K Cirrus and 600K Columbia 400's.

 

[mzaharis]

I think you guys are talking about two different airplanes.

Cessna brought an LSA proof of concept vehicle to display, and a next generation single engine prototype did a few low passes.

Here are some better photos of the NGPA (the non-LSA airplane) during its flyover.

http://www.avweb.com/newspics/new_cessna2.jpg

Looks like their LSA is also getting pretty good coverage in avweb.com and aero-news.net.

 

[gkrangers]

http://aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=ffb25809-f840-4352-8b1e-0e22548b10e5&

Thats the LSA

http://aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=77405dbd-2892-4c29-90d8-8f2fb2adf04e&

Thats the more conventional 4 seater? I guess.

 

[mzaharis]

http://aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=ffb25809-f840-4352-8b1e-0e22548b10e5&

Thats the LSA

http://aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=77405dbd-2892-4c29-90d8-8f2fb2adf04e&

Thats the more conventional 4 seater? I guess.

That's my understanding. It is shown more clearly in the photos I posted above. The LSA has a strutted wing. The above photos show that the "heavy" airplane doesn't have a strutted wing, and has doors for a rear seat, so they must be two separate airplanes.

 

[awacs941]

Looks like the Symphony to me:

http://symphonyaircraft.com/images/photo02.jpg