Description
In 1966, the United States Air Force (USAF) commissioned Cessna to build a military version of the Skymaster.
Like the civilian version, the Skymaster was a low-cost twin-engine piston-engined aircraft, with one engine in the nose of the aircraft and a second engine in the rear of the fuselage.
In March 1967, the US Air Force received the O-2 Skymaster. By 1970, a total of 532 O-2s had been built for the US Air Force in two variants.
Six former USAF O-2A airframes were transferred to the US Navy in 1983 for use as range controllers with Attack Squadron 122 (VA-122), the Pacific Fleet's replacement squadron for the A-7 Corsair II at Lemoore Naval Air Station, California. They were transferred to VFA-125, Nevada.