Sporty's has come up with a different twist on the affordable training aircraft by looking to the most popular training aircraft of all time. The company, which operates a large flight school near Cincinnati, is buying good used Cessna 172s and, in most cases, taking out a lot of the bells and whistles that their private owners tend to load them up with. The result is the 172LITE, a no-frills basic trainer that can fly the heftiest student and instructor combination and still carry more than an hour's worth of fuel. And since good 172s are ubiquitous on the used market, Sporty's says it can refurbish and refit the aircraft and still rent them for $99 an hour.
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