Cessna 172

Available at Jandakot Airport, Perth and Murrayfield Airport, Mandurah. Seven in fleet (P, R, S and RG Cutlass models). 

The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is a four-seat, single-engine, high-wing aircraft made by the Cessna Aircraft Company. First flown in 1955 and still in production, more Cessna 172s have been built than any other aircraft.

A Cessna 172 was used in 1958 to set the world record for flight endurance; the record still stands. On December 4, 1958, Robert Timm and John Cook took off from McCarran Airfield in Las Vegas, Nevada in a newly built Cessna 172, registration number N9172B. Sixty-four days, 22 hours, 19 minutes and 5 seconds later, they landed back at McCarran Airfield on February 4, 1959.

The flight was part of a fund-raising effort for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund. Food and water were transferred by matching speeds with a chase car on a straight stretch of road in the desert and hoisting the supplies aboard with a rope and bucket. Fuel was taken on by hoisting a hose from a fuel truck up to the aircraft, filling an auxiliary belly tank installed for the flight, pumping that fuel into the aircraft’s regular tanks, and then filling the belly tank again. The drivers steered while a second person matched speeds with the aircraft with his foot on the vehicle’s accelerator pedal.

Our Cessna 172’s are available to The Royal Aero Club of Western Australia members and the general public for private hire, training, scenic flights or charter. Bookings can be made via our friendly Operations Team on (08) 9417 0000.