THE NEWEST PLANES

Cessna 150, an all-metal two-seater designed as the company's first real move into the lowest-price brackets to compete with Piper's fabric-covered Super Cub for the pleasure-flying market. Cruising speed: 115 m.p.h. Price: around $7,000, some $2,000 less than the cheapest four-place Cessna.

Cessna 1 75, a medium-priced addition to the company's line of four-place, high-wing monoplanes. Cruising speed: 139 m.p.h. Price: about $11,000, midway between the lowest priced Model 172 and highest priced 182.

Piper Comanche, the company's first low-wing, single-engined plane designed to challenge Cessna's virtual monopoly in the medium-priced field. Cruising speed: 160 m.p.h. over a 920-mile range with four passengers. Price: $14,500.

Beech Travel Air, a brand-new twin-engined monoplane that Beech hopes will plug the gap between its single-engined Bonanza and its high-priced Twin-Bonanza. Cruising speed: 200 m.p.h. over a 1,000-mile range. Price: around $50,000.

Beech MS-760, a sleek four-place, twin-jet transport that Beech is importing from France's Morane-Saulnier to try out the executive jet market. Cruising speed: 350 m.p.h. over a 1,000-mile range. Price: $210,000.

Aero Alti-Cruiser, a pressurized, souped-up version of the Aero Commander. Cruising speed: 230 m.p.h. Price: $183,750.

Grumman Gulfstream, a turboprop slightly smaller than a DC-3, which Grumman hopes to have on the market by 1959. Cruising speed: 350 m.p.h. with twelve passengers. Price: $850,000.

Lockheed JetStar, the first U.S.-built light jet transport. Cruising speed: 500 m.p.h. with ten passengers. Price: around $1,000,000.

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