Today’s Top Pick is a 2010 Cessna 162 Skycatcher. Cessna designed the 162 Skycatcher as a modern trainer and personal aircraft that could take over where ancient Cessna 150s and 152s left off.

Cessna confirmed that the crash of a second Model 162 SkyCatcher prototype last week resulted from an unrecoverable spin. Nevertheless, Cessna remains committed to the light sport aircraft project.

October 5, 2007 Own your own brand new Cessna for a touch over a hundred grand – it’s an offer many are finding too good to refuse. The Cessna SkyCatcher Light Sports Aircraft seems to be the ...

Now Cessna has quietly ended sales and marketing of its lightest single-engine plane, the Model 162 Skycatcher.

After much anticipation, Cessna’s new state-of-the-art light sport aircraft, the Skycatcher, has made its way to the Pacific Northwest. The Skycatcher features the Garmin G300 avionics suite ...

Cessna officials said they will be moving the 162 Skycatcher into a primary aircraft category, and out of the Light Sport Aircraft category.

Cessna Aircraft Co. is moving its 162 Skycatcher to a new aircraft category in hopes of easing global certification for the plane.

The Cessna SkyCatcher, which has been attracting a steady stream of attention since the program was officially launched last year, will have a prototype ready to fly in the coming months.

My subsequent landings are better. The SkyCatcher’s basic price was intended to be less than $100,000, which was one reason Cessna switched construction to Shenyang Aircraft in China.

Cessna Aircraft Friday took a step forward in its plans to become a major player in the light-sport aircraft market with the delivery of the first Model 162 Skycatcher Light Sport Aircraft (LSA ...

Cessna continues to spool up on its Model 162 Skycatcher light-sport aircraft, topping 100 deliveries. Cessna, which had captured orders for more than 1,000 of the aircraft, reached the milestone ...

Cessna Aircraft Co. is returning deposits to European customers for its Model 162 Skycatcher as the company wades through certification problems with the European Aviation Safety Agency.