The Cessna Model A was a 1920s American

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 high-wing four-seat tourer built by the Cessna Aircraft Company

Cessna

The Cessna Aircraft Company is an airplane manufacturing corporation headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, USA. Their main products are general aviation aircraft. Although they are the most well known for their small, piston-powered aircraft, they also produce business jets. The company is a subsidiary...

, the first in 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.

Variants

Model AA

Fitted with a 120hp (89kW) Anzani 10 engine, 14 built.

Model AC

Fitted with a 130hp (97kW) Comet engine, one built.

Model AF

Fitted with a 150hp (112kW) Floco/Axelson engine, three built.

Model AS

Fitted with a 125hp (93kW) Siemens-Halske engine, four built.

Model AW

Fitted with a 125hp (97kW) Warner Scarab

Warner Scarab

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 engine, 48 built. One was purchased by Eddie August Schneider

Eddie August Schneider

Eddie August Henry Schneider set three transcontinental airspeed records for pilots under the age of twenty-one in 1930. His plane was a Cessna Model AW with a Warner-Scarab engine, one of only 48 built, that he called "The Kangaroo". He set the east-to-west, then the west-to-east, and the...

 in which he set three transcontinental airspeed records for pilots under the age of twenty-one in 1930.

Model BW

A three-seat version with a 220hp (164kW) Wright J-5 engine, 13 built.