Provincetown Municipal Airport | Cessna 402
A Cape Air Cessna 402 being prepared for flight. [2009, Dunlap]
A postcard view of a Cessna 402 in the livery of the Provincetown-Boston Airline. [Bromley & Company / Salvador R. Vasques III Collection / Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum]
A Cessna 402 in the livery of Nantucket Airlines, a sister company of Cape Air, approaching Provincetown airport for landing. [2009, Dunlap]
A Cape Air Cessna 402 approaching PVC over Race Point Light. [2009, Dunlap]
[2009, Dunlap]
Text last updated on 12 March 2017 | The twin-engine, 10-seat Cessna 402 is to Cape Air what the Douglas DC-3 was to the Provincetown-Boston Airline: the signature workhorse of the fleet. Cape Air is the largest operator of the 402, with more than 80 of them. The 402 was in production from 1967 to 1985, so even the newest planes are entering their fourth decade of service. No stranger to Provincetown Municipal Airport, a 402 began regular passenger service with the Provincetown-Boston Airline in 1972. The PBA Cessna fleet grew to four by 1978 and nine by 1981.
¶ Republished on 5 January 2024.