Can a Cessna 172 fly across the Atlantic?

Watch the timelapse of all the highlights from the ferry flight adventure across the Atlantic Ocean in the Cessna 172. Throughout their journey they landed at 14 different airports, overflew 6 different countries, crossed the Atlantic and covered over 4300 nautical miles to bring home the two new Cessna 172's.



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Can a Cessna 172 fly across the Atlantic? Yes, and that is how they deliver single engine airplanes to Europe and beyond. Oh . . . they do make provisions for extra fuel and with several stops, as no one flies across the Atlantic by flying due east.

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Sport Pilot License Sport Pilot is a certificate that allows you to fly a Light Sport Aircraft with a number of limitations. It is the only certificate in the airplane category that only requires a driver's license, not a medical.

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Elite pilots deliver small planes across oceans and continents - distances these aircraft were not designed to fly. Flying alone across the Atlantic Ocean in a tiny, single-engine plane at low altitudes, sometimes in extreme weather conditions, is not for the faint-hearted. Things can and do go wrong.

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A Cessna 172 Skyhawk has a range of about 800 miles on a full tank of fuel; that's about the same distance from New York City to Detroit (in Michigan), Columbus (in Ohio), or Windsor (in Ontario, Canada).

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