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Description
| Notes: HIGH-WING monoplane with twin tail booms, aft pusher and forward puller engines and retractable landing gear. Used for forward air control mission (2 CREW) . | ||
|   Manufacturer: | Cessna | |
|   Base model: | O-2 | |
|   Designation: | O-2 | |
|   Version: | A | |
|   Nickname: | Skymaster | |
|   Designation System: | U.S. Tri-Service | |
|   Designation Period: | 1962-Present | |
|   Basic role: | Observation | |
Specifications
|   Length: | 29' 9" | 9.0 m | |
|   Height: | 9' 2" | 2.7 m | |
|   Wingspan: | 38' 2" | 11.6 m | |
|   Wingarea: | 202.5 sq ft | 18.8 sq m | |
|   Empty Weight: | 2,705 lb | 1,226 kg | |
|   Gross Weight: | 4,630 lb | 2,099 kg | |
Propulsion
|   No. of Engines: | 2 | ||
|   Powerplant: | Continental IO-360 | ||
|   Horsepower (each): | 210 | ||
Performance
|   Range: | 780 miles | 1,256 km | |
|   Cruise Speed: | 196 mph | 315 km/h | 170 kt |
|   Max Speed: | 206 mph | 331 km/h | 178 kt |
|   Ceiling: | 19,300 ft | 5,882 m | |
Known serial numbers
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| Air Mobility Command Museum | Dover AFB | Delaware |
| Air Power Park and Museum | Hampton | Virginia |
| Castle Air Museum | Atwater | California |
| Chanute Display Center | Chanute AFB | Illinois |
| Confederate Air Force - Arizona Wing | Mesa | Arizona |
| Dyess Linear Air Park | Dyess AFB | Texas |
| Illinois ANG - 182nd AG, Peoria | Peoria | Illinois |
| Kelly Field Heritage Museum | Kelly AFB | Texas |
| Lone Star Flight Museum | Galveston | Texas |
| Museum of Aviation | Warner Robins AFB | Georgia |
| New York ANG - 105th AG, Newburgh | Newburgh | New York |
| Ohio ANG - 121st ARW, Rickenbacker ANGB | Columbus | Ohio |
| Tucson | Arizona | |
| Selfridge Military Air Museum | Selfridge ANG Bas | Michigan |
| Shaw AFB | Shaw AFB | South Carolina |
| South Dakota Air and Space Museum | Ellsworth AFB | South Dakota |
| Travis Air Force Museum | Travis AFB | California |
| USAF Armament Museum | Eglin AFB | Florida |
| USAF History and Traditions Museum | San Antonio | Texas |
| United States Air Force Museum | Wright-Patterson | Ohio |
| Valiant Air Command Museum | Titusville | Florida |
O-2A on display
Air Mobility Command Museum | Castle Air Museum | Chanute Display Center | Confederate Air Force - Arizona Wing | |
Dyess Linear Air Park | Lone Star Flight Museum | Museum of Aviation | Pima Air & Space Museum | |
Shaw AFB | Travis Air Force Museum | USAF Armament Museum | Valiant Air Command Museum |   |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Nolan Hargrave Centennial, CO | We are restoring an O2 at Wings of the Rockies Museum in Denver, CO. Can someone tell me where the plane serial number is found on the plane? Thanks |
| Nolan Hargrave Centennial, CO | We are restoring an O2 at Wings of the Rockies Museum in Denver, CO. Can someone tell me where the plane serial number is found on the plane? Thanks |
| Ty Brunson , AR | My father Ted Brunson flew this (Cessna 02) plane in Vietnam. He sent a reel to reel recording weekly to the family. I remember him telling my mother on the recording not to worry because he was placing a sandbag and his flak jacket on the floor and on his seat respectively. He then said the family jewels were being protected. I was only in the second grade and I had never heard about our family jewels before so I was quite surprised by the possibility that we were rich. My mother dodged the question about what our family jewels looked like. After a lot of laughter from the adults in the room my older brother took me back to our bedroom and explained what family jewels meant . Thanks for sparking that funny memory from 51 years ago. 09/03/2015 @ 17:47 [ref: 69236] |
| Michael Craig Clary Anderson, SC | O-2A Skymaster s/n 69-7646 is currently here in Anderson, South Carolina being restored to non-flyable static display and back to her original U.S. Air Force configuration. If there any ground and/or flight crews out there that had their hands on O-2A 7646 at one time, please contact me, I would really like to hear from you. Thank You Very Much Michael Craig Clary Mikelisa96@msn.com 08/31/2015 @ 10:17 [ref: 69233] |
| USAF Retired , MI | I was an assistant crew chief O2a 67-7621 at Shaw AFB SC with the Primary Crew Chief John Swope who was my trainer at the time. TAC trained Killers on Two Tailed terrors of the sky. :D flew it a couple of times on TDY as I was certified a student pilot at the aero Club Capt.Sajaun was my IP 05/26/2015 @ 05:52 [ref: 69103] |
| Jim Price kilmarnock, VA | We had some 0-2's at Patrick AFB when I was there in 1978 for Annual Field Training 11/17/2014 @ 04:34 [ref: 68765] |
| Cris Lockley , VA | We had around 54 02A's At Bergstrom TX, I believe they went to Homestead FL. They weren't very flashy but they served a purpose and were fun to fly in. 08/03/2014 @ 09:49 [ref: 68584] |
| Dean T/Matt C , CO | Matt and I are privileged to have just taken possession of O-2A, Cessna 337M-0016, USAF 67-21310. She sat in storage at Davis Monthan AFB, Arizona from November of 1979 until purchased for the first time in 1994. She sat again from 1994 until September of this year when Matt and I purchased her. We know that it arrived at its Vietnam location with the 20th TASS (APO 96337). As one of the first O-2s in Vietnam, it was most probably assigned to Dong Ha airfield or Khe Sahn in July of 1967. By November of 1967, it was assigned to the 19th TASS (APO 96227), out of Bien Hoa Airbase (or one of its forward locations until it left Vietnam in January of 1971. Post-Vietnam service was limited to the 115th Tactical Air Support Group of the Wisconsin Air National Guard at Truax Field, Wisconsin from March, 1971 until sent to the boneyard in Arizona in 1979. Matt and I are hoping that anyone at these locations during these timeframes would take a look at their photos and see if our tail number shows up. It would help us document the history of the plane and its time in service to our country. We'd also be interested in hearing from Tail number to look for is 67-21310. Email replies to: mgadean @ yahoo.com 10/13/2013 @ 06:20 [ref: 68100] |
| Craig Clary Anderson, SC | I understand freedom of the press, but why can't some of you sell your junk somewhere else, especially the p*rn sites, use your heads, Aviation Enthusiast Corner is for aviation, not selling your junk and your p*rn, seel you stuff somewhere else, you people are idiots. 07/20/2011 @ 16:07 [ref: 42141] |
| Bobby Schiller Austin, TX | Now Kelly you know very well that 10968-68 was a hunk-o-junk compared to my fine bird, 68-6868. That's why you had to park it on the back row. I remember Capt. Paul. and am sure you remember my pilot Capt. Flash. Nice to see your still around and kicking. 06/18/2011 @ 22:22 [ref: 39661] |
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