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The Cessna Aircraft Company is an American general aviation aircraft manufacturing corporation headquartered in Wichita, Kansas. Best known for small, piston-powered aircraft, Cessna also produces business jets. The company is a subsidiary of the U.S. conglomerate Textron. In March 2014 Cessna became a brand of Textron Aviation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Textron Completes Acquisition of Beechcraft )〕 ==History== Clyde Cessna, a farmer in Rago, Kansas, built his own aircraft and flew it in June 1911, the first person to do so between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Cessna started his wood-and-fabric aircraft ventures in Enid, Oklahoma, testing many of his early planes on the salt flats. When bankers in Enid refused to lend him more money to build his planes, he moved to Wichita.〔(Article in "Enid News" )〕 Cessna Aircraft was formed when Clyde Cessna and Victor Roos became partners in the Cessna-Roos Aircraft Company in 1927. Roos resigned just one month into the partnership selling back his interest to Cessna. In the same year, the Kansas Secretary of State approved dropping Roos's name from the company name.〔(History of Cessna 1927 )〕 The Cessna DC-6 earned certification, same day as the stock market crash of 1929, 29 October 1929.〔(History of Cessna from 1929 )〕 In 1932 Cessna Aircraft Company closed its doors due to the Great Depression. However the Cessna CR-3 custom racer took its first flight in 1933. The plane won the 1933 American Air Race in Chicago and later set a new world speed record for engines smaller than 500 cubic inches by averaging .〔(History of Cessna 1933 )〕 Dwane Wallace, along with his brother Dwight, took control of the company in 1934. They reopened it and began the process of building it into what would become a global success.〔Phillips, Edward H: ''Wings of Cessna, Model 120 to the Citation III'', Flying Books, 1986. ISBN 0-911139-05-2〕 The Cessna C-37 was introduced, in 1937, as Cessna's first seaplane when equipped with Edo floats.〔(History of Cessna 1937 )〕 * 1940: Cessna received their largest order to date, in 1940, when they signed a contract with the U.S. Army for 33 specially equipped Cessna T-50s. Later in 1940, the Royal Canadian Air Force placed an order for 180 T-50s.〔(History of Cessna 1940 )〕 Cessna returned to commercial production, in 1946, after the revocation of wartime production restrictions (L-48) with the release of the Model 120 and Model 140. The approach was to introduce a new line of all-metal aircraft that used production tools, dies and jigs rather than the hand-built process tube-and-fabric construction used before the war.〔(History of Cessna 1946 )〕 The Model 140 was named, by the US Flight Instructors Association, as the "Outstanding Plane of the Year", in 1948.〔(History of Cessna 1948 )〕 Cessna's first helicopter, the Cessna CH-1, received FAA type certification, in 1955.〔(History of Cessna 1955 )〕 Cessna introduced the Cessna 172, in 1956. It became the most produced airplane in history.〔(History of Cessna 1956 )〕 In 1960 Cessna affiliated itself with Reims Aviation of Reims, France.〔(History of Cessna 1960 )〕 1963 saw Cessna produce its 50,000th airplane, a Cessna 172.〔(history of Cessna 1963 )〕 Cessna's first business jet, the Cessna Citation I performed its maiden flight on 15 September 1969.〔(History of Cessna 1969 )〕 Cessna produced its 100,000th single engine airplane in 1975.〔(History of Cessna 1975 )〕 In 1985 Cessna ceased to be an independent company. It was purchased by General Dynamics Corporation and became a wholly owned subsidiary. Production of the Cessna Caravan began.〔(History of Cessna 1985 )〕 General Dynamics in turn, sold Cessna to Textron Inc, in 1992.〔(History of Cessna 1992 )〕 Late in 2007, Cessna purchased the bankrupt Columbia Aircraft company for US$26.4M and would continue production of the Columbia 350 and 400 as the Cessna 350 and Cessna 400 at the Columbia factory in Bend, Oregon. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cessna」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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