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Cessna 188 is a family of light
agricultural aircraft produced between 1966 and 1983 by the
Cessna Aircraft Company.Christy, Joe
The Complete Guide to the Single-Engine Cessnas 3rd ed, TAB Books, Blue Ridge Summit PA USA, 1979, pp 119-128
The various versions of the 188 — the AGwagon, AGpickup, AGtruck and AGhusky, along with the
AGcarryall variant of the 185, constituted Cessna's line of agricultural aircraft.
Development
In the early 1960s Cessna decided to expand their already wide line of light aircraft by entering the agricultural aircraft market. They surveyed pilots and operators of other brands of agricultural aircraft to see what features and capabilities these operators were looking for. The resulting aircraft was a conventional single-seat, piston-powered, strut-braced low-winged agricultural airplane.
The Cessna 188 borrowed heavily from the
Cessna 180, the initial version using the same tail cone and fin structure as well as the same
Continental O-470-R 230hp (170kW) powerplant. The 188’s airframe is predominantly built from 2024-T3
aluminum, with the chemical hopper constructed from
fibreglass. The fuselage is of...
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