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|name= Model T303 Crusader
|image= File:Cessna crusader.jpg
|caption= Cessna T303 Crusader
|type= sixSix-seat twin engine cabin monoplane▼
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|national_origin= United States
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|manufacturer= [[Cessna|Cessna Aircraft Company]]
|designer=David R Ellis
|first flightfirst_flight= February 14, 1978
|introducedintroduction= 1982
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The '''Cessna T303 Crusader''' is an [[United States|American]] six-place light twin-engined [[Fixed-wing aircraft|aircraft]] built by [[Cessna|Cessna Aircraft Company]]. Production ceased in 1986.
 
==Design and development==
The original '''Cessna 303 Clipper''' was first flown on February 14, 1978;<ref name="Janes 82 p346">Taylor 1982, p.346.</ref> it was a low-wing four-seat [[Lycoming Engines|Lycoming]]-powered twin-engined aircraft that would have competed with the [[Piper Seminole]], [[Gulfstream American GA-7 Cougar]], and [[Beechcraft Duchess]]. After market demand for four-place light twins declined, only one 303 Clipper was built before Cessna redesigned the aircraft as a six-seat twin. They also renamed the aircraft out of legal concern, since [[Pan American World Airways|Pan Am Airlines]] held the trademark on the name "Clipper" in reference to their fleet aircraft.
 
The new model, designated the '''T303 Crusader''' first flew on October 17, 1979, with the first deliveries being made in October, 1981. The T303 is an all-metal low-wing six-seat twin-engined aircraft with a retractable tricycle undercarriage. At the time, it was the first all-new production twin built by Cessna in over a decade. With a declining market, only 297<ref name="auto"/> were built.
 
Examples were exported to [[Europe]], with several still operating in the [[United Kingdom]] in 2012 and two flying in [[Goondiwindi]], [[Queensland]], [[Australia]]. Many are still flying is nin [[Colombia]] in [[air taxi]] and private operations.
 
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* [[Beechcraft Baron]]
* [[Fuji/Rockwell Commander 700]]
* [[Cessna 310]]
* [[Piper Aztec]]
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