From Aero Digest, April, 1935:
Cessna Aircraft Company, Wichita, Kansas
• President: C. V. Cessna. General Manager and Chief Engineer: Dwane L. Wallace. Assistant Chief Engineer: Tom Salter.
Four-place, high-wing monoplane. Warner Super Scarab engine, 145 horsepower.
Span 33 feet 10 inches. Length overall 24 feet 7 inches. Wing area 180 square feet.
Power loading 15.17 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading 12.18 pounds per square foot.
Empty weight 1220 pounds. Useful load 980 pounds. Gross weight 2200 pounds. Fuel capacity 35 gallons. Oil capacity 3.5 gallons.
Maximum speed 162 miles per hour. Cruising speed 143 miles per hour. Service ceiling 18,900 feet. Rate of climb at sea level 1000 feet per minute.
Fuselage: fabric and dural covered; framework of steel tubing, welded; rubber suspension engine mount; control system: dual control; rudder and ailerons cable actuated; elevator push-pull tube; flaps irreversible worm gear; seating arrangement, pilot and one passenger side-by-side in front seat and two passengers side-by-side in rear seat; large doors on either side of the fuselage afford entrance to both front and rear seats. Wing: fabric covered; full cantilever construction tapering in section; solid laminated spars of spruce; spruce ribs; plywood covered leading edge and tips; trailing edge flaps extending from the ailerons to the fuselage; statically balanced Freise-type ailerons mounted directly on rear spar. Tail group: full cantilever; tab control on one elevator. Landing gear: full cantilever equipped with oleo spring shock absorbers, Autofan wheels and brakes, General streamline tires; tail wheel, oleo sprilJ~. shock absorber, roller bearing, Goodyear streamline tire.
Standard equipment includes Hartzell wood propeller, flaps, cabin ventilators, NACA cowl.
Instruments: compass, fuel gauge, oil pressure gauge, oil temperature gauge, tachometer, air speed indicator, altimeter, bank indicator.