Tales of the Cessna 195

By Michael D. Larson

"You know this is a love story."
- Larry Nelson, President of the International Cessna 190/195 Club, at the annual convention banquet

It is. But it's also the story of fifty years in the air.

Mike Larson fell in love with the Cessna 195 at age twelve, on a factory test flight he never forgot. He went on to build one of the most varied flying careers imaginable - shuttling skydivers in a Twin Beech 18, crop-spraying cotton fields in Arizona at treetop level, hauling freight around the world in a DC-8, and flying the Boeing 737 over the US, Canada, and South and Central America for a major airline. He logged over fifty years and tens of thousands of hours before mandatory retirement grounded him at sixty.

But the real story is Charmian.

She came from England as an au pair, took up skydiving to meet people, and became one of the most accomplished female skydivers of the 1970s - setting world records and jumping from planes Mike was flying. A drunk driver nearly took her life. They both walked away from skydiving after that. They never walked away from each other.

Tales of the Cessna 195 - as featured in Flying Magazine - is the book Mike's friends call a love story. They're not wrong.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692281460
• ISBN13: 9780692281468
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Mike Larson
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"