Cessna Skycatcher 162 Single-Engine, Light Sport Aircraft, USA

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Cessna will ship raw materials, engines and avionics from the US toShenyang. Cessna will provide on-site personnel to overseeassembly, quality assurance and technical support.
Once test flown and disassembled, the Skycatchers will be shippedto three authorised Cessna service stations in the US forreassembly and acceptance test flights.
The company expects to produce 700 Skycatchers a year from 2009; aprototype Skycatcher made its first flight in March 2008. The firstproduction model flew for the first time on 1 May 2008. Thehalf-hour flight piloted by Cessna Engineering test pilot DaleBleakney took off from the Cessna Aircraft Field Airport adjacentto McConnell Air Force Base. The flight included manoeuvres toevaluate the controllability and stability of the Skycatcher.
The Skycatcher 162 will be equipped per FAR 91.205 to meet both dayand night VFR (visual flight rules) flight requirements and isdesigned and built to comply with the American Society for Testingand Materials International (ASTM) standards for LSA and meets thelimitation and special certificate of airworthiness requirementsfor a light sport category aircraft as defined by the FAA in CFR(code of federal regulations) part 1.1 and CFR part 21.190.
SINGLE-PISTON ENGINE
The Skycatcher 162 is powered by a Teledyne Continental O-200Dsingle-piston engine developing 74.57kW at 2,800rpm driving acomposite two-blade fixed-pitch propeller; Cessna has yet to decidewhether this will be a McCauley propeller.