The Cessna 152, a direct descendant of the Cessna 150, was manufactured from 1977 until 1985, the year that Cessna was bought by General Dynamics Corporation. Concerns over product liability brought an end to the manufacturing of the two-seat single engine airplane.
The Cessna 152 plane was designed with an increase in engine power requirements in mind, as well as a response to the availability problems of 80/87 octane fuel at the time. The result was an engine power increase, from 100 to 110 horsepower, and a superior engine, the Lycoming O-235, a 4-cylinder double piston engine.
Like the Cessna 150, the majority of the Cessna 152s have a tricycle gear, although a tail-dragger conversion does exist. And unlike the Cessna 150, widely considered as one of the best selling two-seat trainers ever manufactured, there were very few variants of the 152. One variant was the A152 Aerobat aerobatic model, which was powered by a Lycoming O-235-N2C engine.
While the wing-span of the Cessna 152 is identical to the 150 (33 feet), as is the wing area (160 square feet), the plane is slightly longer (21 feet 7 inches) and slightly higher (8 feet 6 inches) than it’s predecessor.
A little over 6800 Cessna 152s were built in the United States, while 589 were built by Reims in France.
In 1985 Cessna was bought out by General Dynamics. And in 1992, Textron Inc. bought from General Dynamics the Cessna Division.

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