Well, it's the end of a long line of sport flying airplanes at Cessna. Probably the last two seat airplane to be produced by the big three of the 1950s. Killed by a wrong engine choice, which added 100 pounds to the empty weight and 3 GPH extra fuel flow. And some development issues that showed that Cessna didn't read "Design for Flying" and made a vertical tail that lacked area below the stabilizer. Plus the China production, which had some people all upset.
A good little airplane, could have been a contender. Cessna is reportedly shopping the design around. But I'm sure that the current management isn't going to let it go cheap. I just hope that the 90 or so planes they have in Wichita don't get chopped up for a tax write off.
http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/A...essna-CEO.aspx
http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news...r220834-1.html