Aviation

Cessna Top Hawk schools get new Skyhawk airplanes for year

By Jerry Siebenmark

jsiebenmark@wichitaeagle.com
Universities selected for Cessna’s Top Hawk program receive use of a new, Cessna 172 Skyhawk painted in the schools’ colors and logos for a year. (Feb. 16, 2015)
Universities selected for Cessna’s Top Hawk program receive use of a new, Cessna 172 Skyhawk painted in the schools’ colors and logos for a year. (Feb. 16, 2015) Jaime Green File photo

Cessna Aircraft Co. on Monday announced its Top Hawk university partners for 2017.

The Top Hawk program supports universities with aviation programs and includes a one-year use of a new, custom-branded Cessna Skyhawk 172 single, piston-engine airplane for flight training, recruiting and promotion. Top students from each program also are offered summer internships at Cessna’s parent company, Textron Aviation.

The five universities are: Eastern Kentucky University, the Ohio State University, Auburn University, Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Louisiana Tech University.

Garmin and Bose also are sponsors of next year’s Top Hawk.

This story was originally published November 21, 2016 at 11:17 AM with the headline "Cessna Top Hawk schools get new Skyhawk airplanes for year."

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