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Membership: Win the trainer of your dreams

Sweepstakes 172 isn’t your ordinary airplane

April 1, 2017
Just another Skyhawk? Not in your dreams. This 1978 Cessna 172N rolled out of the factory with a 160-horsepower engine and what was then state of the art navigation equipment: a nav radio. 
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See the AOPA Sweepstakes 172 at

Sun ’n Fun International Fly-In and Expo, Lakeland, Florida, April 4-9
EAA AirVenture, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, July 24-30
Other appearances to be announced.

Ways to win

AOPA members are automatically entered to win the 172 Sweepstakes. AOPA Premier and Life members and members enrolled in AOPA’s Automatic Annual Renewal Program receive additional entries. For full rules and alternate forms of entry, see the website. 

Yingling Aviation in Wichita, Kansas, has transformed AOPA’s Sweepstakes 172 from spinner to tail. The airplane has a new 180-hp Lycoming and new starter, alternator, vacuum pump, and voltage regulator; new propeller and brightly polished spinner; new flight instruments, including a Garmin G5 electronic attitude indicator and an angle of attack indicator; and a Garmin 650 GPS nav/com with moving map.

Then there are the performance enhancements: an electronic ignition system that reduces fuel burn, and vortex generators that reduce takeoff and stall speeds while improving controllability.

As beautiful on the outside as on the inside, the Sweepstakes 172 has a sleek new paint job, leather upholstery, airbag seatbelts for the front seats, and brand-new glass.

The airplane comes with an iPad mini that can be mounted to the panel in its own dock.

The AOPA Sweepstakes 172 will be given away in 2017. Are you in the running for this great airplane? AOPA members are automatically entered to win. Entrants must have an FAA pilot certificate (including student pilot certificates) as of May 31 to win, but a current medical certificate is not required. See the website for more information and all the latest updates on the AOPA 172 Sweepstakes.

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