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ViraZH Buys Skyhawks To Train Russia’s Next Generation Pilots
Russian flight training group ViraZH has ordered 79 more Cessna 172 Skyhawks in a deal that will take its fleet to 90 of the piston singles.
Russian flight training group ViraZH has ordered 79 more Cessna 172 Skyhawks in a deal that will take its fleet to 90 of the piston singles.

Moscow-based training organization ViraZH has ordered 79 Skyhawks to re-equip its flight schools throughout western Russia. Under an agreement signed today at the JetExpo show at the Russian capital’s Vnukovo-3 Airport, Cessna will start supplying the piston singles in next year’s third quarter and by the time all the deliveries have been made ViraZH will be fielding one of the world’s largest Skyhawk fleets.