Cessna O-1 Bird Dog

Cessna O-1 Bird Dog

The Cessna L-19/O-1 Bird Dog was a liaison and observation aircraft. It was the first all-metal fixed-wing aircraft ordered for and by the United States Army since the U.S. Army Air Forces separated from the Army in 1947, becoming its own branch of service, the U.S. Air Force. The Bird Dog had a lengthy career in the U.S. military, as well as in other countries.

Read more about Cessna O-1 Bird Dog:  Design and Development, Operational History, Variants, Operators, Specifications (O-1E)

Famous quotes containing the words bird and/or dog:

    “It is Nature’s own bird which lives on buds and diet-drink.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “She is a procession no one can follow after
    But be like a little dog following a brass band.”
    —George Barker (b. 1913)