Cessna Anticipates AvGas Demise

CESSNA TO OFFER DIESEL SKYHAWK
(http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#196294)
Cessna will offer the 172S Skyhawk with a Thielert turbo diesel engine
with deliveries to start in mid-2008. In an announcement at AOPA Expo
in Hartford, Conn., Cessna officials said the decision to offer the
diesel came after extensive market surveys and flight testing. "The
Skyhawk is already the best-selling, most-flown airplane ever with
more than 43,000 delivered and this option further expands the market
due to the worldwide availability of Jet A fuel," said John Doman,
Cessna vice president of propeller aircraft sales. Cessna will install
the engines at its Independence, Kan., factory under the supplementary
type certificate already held by Thielert.