Cessna 185 Skywagon

The Cessna 185 Skywagon is a six-seat, single-engine, high-wing light aircraft with a tailwheel, which first flew as a prototype in July 1960, with the first production aircraft completed in March 1961. It is essentially the Cessna 180 with a strengthened fuselage, a larger vertical fin and a 300 horsepower Continental engine in place of the 230 horsepower unit of the 180. It can be fitted with floats, amphibious floats or skis, and the AgCarryall variant added a 151 gallon belly chemical tank for aerial application. The 180 and 185 are widely used for bush flying to rudimentary, remote airstrips, lakes and snowfields, mainly in Canada and Alaska. More than 4,400 were built before production ceased in 1985, and the tailwheel models were not revived when Cessna restarted production of other models in the 1990s.