I’m crazy. Bought a 172 yesterday

You flying the 414 down? Where you parking? We head down Friday for GAC.
Yes, planning to arrive LAL at 9am on Friday. Hope to park at E1 or E2. Need to stay on hard pavement. May end up towards choppertown.
 
I wonder if @Pilawt knows... :)

I hope he chimes in. I've only seen a handful of P model airplanes and they all have had the late style door handles so I assumed they all did. Looks like I learned a new, useless bit of trivia today.
 
I hope he chimes in. I've only seen a handful of P model airplanes and they all have had the late style door handles so I assumed they all did. Looks like I learned a new, useless bit of trivia today.
Those handles showed up partway through the M model production run. We had two 1974 M models with the old style, and a '76 with the new one.

The R and S models finally got it right. Mechanically, almost no resemblance to the old systems.
 
Those handles showed up partway through the M model production run. We had two 1974 M models with the old style, and a '76 with the new one.

The R and S models finally got it right. Mechanically, almost no resemblance to the old systems.

I think you're referring to the inside handle and latch system?

See Ascier's post about the exterior handles with pictures. Apparently he thought like I did, that all the P models had the updated handle. That appears to not be the case.
 
There was a change in the middle of the “P” production.

A second door latch pin was introduced in 1984.[16]
That footnote 16 refers to Ed Phillips' Wings of Cessna. I think Phillips may be off a year on this, since the larger exterior door handle was introduced for the 1983 model year.

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On an unrelated topic, I think it a bid funny that they skipped the “O” and went to “P” because they thought people / pilots couldn’t tell the number zero from the letter “O”.
Cessna used the letter 'I' as the sequential suffix on a couple of models (1968 172I and 1964 310I come to mind), but never the letter 'O'. Maybe the marketing mavens didn't like the negative connotation of the similar-looking zero.
 
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