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T-41 Mescalero: The Military Cessna 172.

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A excellent book covering a great plane. Very well written with tons of details. I really liked the listing of airframes and where they ended up. I highly recommend it.

The collaborative effort of avaition experts Walt Shiel, Jan Forsgren, and Mike Little, "T-41 Mescalero: the Military Cessna 172) is the first volume in a planned 'Cessna Warbirds' series from Slipdown Mountain Publications. Enhanced with an informative foreword by aviation historian Robert F. Dorr, "T-41 Mescalero" is a complete history of the quintessential pilot trainer that for some fifty years had served the military aviation forces of 53 countries. Cessna delivered 867 T-41 Mescalero (the military version of the Cessna 172) in four distinct models to the armed forces of the US and a series of other nations that range from Venezuela, Angola and Viet Nam, to Austria and the United Arab Emirates. Now this extensive history, enhanced with personal stories and profusely illustrated with photography, provides a complete record of a military training aircraft that has been produced more than any other aircraft model in the history of aviation. Thoroughly 'reader friendly' "T-41 Mescalero" is a seminal and indispensable addition to personal, academic, and community library Military Aviation reference collections and supplemental reading lists.

A home run! This book is packed with little known information on the Cessna 172 and all it versions from the very beginning. Walt tracks them down in the US and abroad with well written, concise and to the point language. This book is hard to put down. It is a fitting tribute to argueably the most dependable aircraft still in production. Thank you Walt. This ones is a keeper!