| Comet | |
|---|---|
 Clyde Cessna with "The Comet" | |
| General information | |
| Type | Sports plane |
| Manufacturer | Clyde Cessna |
| Designer | |
| Number built | 1 |
| History | |
| First flight | 1917 |
The Cessna Comet was an early aircraft designed and built by Clyde Cessna in the United States in 1917. It was a conventionally configured wire-braced monoplane with a semi-enclosed cabin that seated one passenger in addition to the pilot. On 5 July 1917, Cessna used it to set a national airspeed record of 124.6 mph (200.5 km/h) and national distance record of 76 miles (122 km) flying from Blackwell, Oklahoma, to Wichita, Kansas.
