McNevin Aviation is proud to offer a fleet of rental aircraft.  We follow a strict maintenance program to ensure the highest level of safety.

1978 Cessna Skyhawk 172N

The Cessna 172 Skyhawk has enjoyed many years as the most popular training aircraft in the world, with about 24,000 of them flying.  The safety record for this aircraft is quite good.  The Skyhawk is a 4 seat aircraft with a 160 horsepower Lycoming engine.  The 172 cruises at about 110 nautical miles per hour or knots. 

The Cessna 172 combines the docile handling characteristics of a great trainer with good performance.  It gets about 750 feet per minute climb at sea level and has a 14,200 foot service ceiling.  It can carry up to 120 lbs of baggage.  The Skyhawk is capable of taking off in 805 feet and landing in 520 feet.

The aircraft you will be flying is equipped with a VOR, an ADF, and a Garmin 250XL.  It also has long range fuel tanks, holding 54 gallons, 50 usable.  The skyhawk burns about 8 gallons of fuel an hour.  The aircraft also has strobe lights on the wingtips to enhance safety.  It is a Cessna Skyhawk II, the instrument model and is therefore capable of flying in instrument conditions.  It has a cylinder head temperature guage and a boom beam landing light that surpasses all other landing lights in reliability and brightness.  We recently installed a new Garmin GTX327 digital transponder.  The aircraft has been polished with LoPresti KnotWax, providing oxidation and corrosion protection as well as enhancing its speed by a knot or two.

1980 Cessna Cutlass RG

The Cessna Cutlass 172RG II is a remarkable aircraft.  It combines the lightness of controls of the most widely used trainer in the world, the Cessna Skyhawk, with the improved performance of an aircraft with retractable landing gear and a constant speed controllable pitch propeller.  The Cutlass is a four seat single engine aircraft with a 180 horsepower engine.  The engine is like the Cessna Cardinal engine, and has enjoyed many years of steady performance in the Cessna fleet worldwide.  There were only 1159 C172RG’s built.  The C172RG can cruise about 135 knots while the C172 tops out about 110 knots.  The Cutlass still handles very well in slow flight, stalling at 50 knots. 

The gear is similar to the 182RG, also offered by Cessna.  All of this combine to make the Cessna 172 RG a delightful cross country airplane.  The Cutlass is capable of an 800-900 foot per minute climb at sea level.  The service ceiling for this aircraft is 16,800 feet.

The Cutlass has a higher gross weight than the Skyhawk and carries more fuel. It holds 66 gallons of fuel, 62 usable, with an average of a 10-gallon per hour fuel burn.  The Cutlass has a fuel pump, unlike most other high wing aircraft.  This is a redundant system to the gravity fed system and is used only in certain maneuvering situations.  The Cutlass also carries up to 200 lbs of baggage.

The aircraft you will be flying is a 1980 model, a Cutlass II which is the instrument version.  There is only 3100 hours on the airframe, a remarkably low time given its 25-year age.  The engine has about 800 hours left on it until TBO (recommended Time Between Overhaul is 2000 hours).  It has dual KX-155 Nav / Comms with digital flip-flops, dual VOR’s, one with glide slope.  It is also ADF equipped.  It has an AT-150 altitude encoding transponder.  It equipped with a McCauley two blade controllable pitch propeller, taxi and landing lights, rudder and elevator trim, and cowl flaps.  The Cutlass recently had a new interior put in.  The interior overhaul included replacing all side panels with new soundproofing and recovering.  Rosen sunvisors have also been installed.  Recovering the seats and replacing all interior plastic are on the list of upgrades in the future.

1940 Piper J4 Cub Coupe

The J4 was created to fill a void in the market around 1938.  Many other manufacturers were producing side by side rather than tandem seating aircraft.  This aided greatly in receiving instruction, as intercoms were not really in play yet.  Piper’s answer to this problem was the J4 Cub Coupe.  Because of its easy handling and innovative design, the J4 was widely used as a trainer for the civilian pilot training program, which funneled pilots to the Army Air Corps.

The J4 has a bench seat and dual sticks.  It has hydraulic brakes, cabin heat, and wheel pants.  The aircraft you will be flying is a 1940 J4 Cub Coupe.  It is a fabric covered, two seat, taildragger.  Cruise speed is around 90 mph.  The J4 originally had a 65 hp engine, but was replaced with an 85 hp engine when it was restored several years ago.  We’ve installed a battery to operate an intercom and a radio, for ease of communications.  Otherwise this aircraft does not have an electrical system. 

AST 201 Hawk Simulator

This simulator is an excellent platform for teaching instruments, both for single and multi engine operations.  Utilizing a simulator enhances learning by being able to pause, explain, reposition, and reset the flight environment at will.

Training in the simulator also gives ample opportunity to create realistic emergency situations without putting anyone or anything at risk.  We can simulate everything from engine failures, icing, fires, asymmetric flaps, and more.  The simulation can be with no wind for learning or with lots of wind and turbulence for a challenge, in day or night, VFR or IFR, the possibilities are endless.

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