Although not a Team Arrow aircraft, syndicate member Graham procured this aircraft in 2010 and had it delivered into Malaysia in May of the same year. Graham is sole owner of this aircraft, now registed in Malaysia as 9M-CES.
Team Arrow members, and other pilots, have flown this delightful aircraft with its easy and forgiving nature.
First delivered in 1977 as the 1978 model year, the 152 was a modernisation of the proven Cessna 150 design. The 152 was intended to compete with the new Beechcraft Skipper and Piper Tomahawk, both of which were introduced the same year. Additional design goals were to improve useful load through a gross weight increase to 1670 lbs (757 kg), decrease internal and external noise levels and run better on the then newly introduced 100LL fuel.
As with the 150, the great majority of 152s were built at the Cessna factory in Wichita, Kansas. A number of aircraft were also built by Reims Aviation of France and given the designation F152/FA152.
Production of the 152 was ended in 1985 when Cessna ended production of all of their light aircraft; by that time, a total of 7,584 examples of the 152, including A152 and FA152 Aerobat aerobatic variants, had been built worldwide.