Air Plains Services, based in Wellington, Kansas, has designed an advanced instrument panel kit—the 172XPa—for Cessna 172 owners who either are planning to install or have completed installations of ...

More than 72 years have passed since the Cessna 172 first appeared on engineering drawing boards in Kansas, and the airplane still figures into the training plan for many pilots who learn to fly ...

Often, when we think of long-endurance flights, our first thoughts jump to military operations. Big planes with highly-trained crew will fly for long periods, using air-to-air refuelling to stay aloft ...