Editing Cessna 172 (section)

==Operational history==
[[File:Timm-Cook Cessna 172 LV NV.jpg|thumb|The record-setting 1958-built Cessna 172]]

===World records===
From December 4, 1958, to February 7, 1959, Robert Timm and John Cook set the [[Flight endurance record#Refueled, manned|world record for (refueled) flight endurance]] in a used Cessna 172, registration number N9172B. They took off from McCarran Field (now [[Harry Reid International Airport]]) in Las Vegas, Nevada, and landed back at McCarran Field after 64 days, 22 hours, 19 minutes and 5 seconds in a flight covering an estimated {{convert|150,000|miles|km}}, over 6 times further than flying around the world at the [[equator]]. The flight was part of a fund-raising effort for the [[Damon Runyon]] Cancer Fund.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trivia-library.com/c/time-and-history-353-pm-longest-air-flight-in-history-begins.htm|title=Trivia on Time and History 3:53 p.m. Longest Air Flight in History Begins |work=trivia-library.com|access-date=4 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204190836/http://www.trivia-library.com/c/time-and-history-353-pm-longest-air-flight-in-history-begins.htm|archive-date=4 February 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Ruffin">{{cite book|last=Ruffin|first=Steven A|title=Aviation's Most Wanted: The Top 10 book of Winged Wonders, Lucky Landings and Other Aerial Oddities|year=2005|publisher=Potomac Books|location=Washington, D.C.|isbn=1574886746|pages=320}}</ref> The aircraft is now on display at the airport.<ref>{{Cite web|last=By|date=2021-10-25|title=The Longest Ever Flight Was Over 64 Days In A Cessna 172|url=https://hackaday.com/2021/10/25/the-longest-ever-flight-was-over-64-days-in-a-cessna-172/|access-date=2021-10-27|website=Hackaday|language=en-US}}</ref>