You can read Aircraft For Sale ... squared-off shape and tricycle-gear stance. Sitting on the ramp in 1956, it was a departure from the designs that populated GA airports at the time.
While Cessna is famous for promoting the use of tricycle landing gear on GA aircraft with its 172 Skyhawk, rival Piper Aircraft rather quietly beat it to market by several years. Indeed ...
Designed and built as a counter-insurgency aircraft, the IA-58 Pucará, being rugged and dependable and able to fly from short rudimentary airstrips, found ...