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Piper
Piper Aircraft, Inc., is a manufacturer of general aviation aircraft, located at the Vero Beach Municipal Airport in Vero Beach, Florida, United States and owned since 2009 by the Government of Brunei. The company was originally founded as the Taylor Brothers Aircraft Manufacturing Company in September 1927 by Clarence Gilbert Taylor and Gordon A. Taylor in Rochester, New York. The company was renamed Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corporation in April 1928. The company was enticed to move to Bradford, Pennsylvania, with the promise of larger facility and investment capital from local businessmen, including an initial investment of $400 from local oil industry engineer William T. Piper. In late 1930, the company filed for bankruptcy and William T. Piper purchased the assets of the company for $761. Reorganized as the Taylor Aircraft Company, Piper effectively took control of the firm when he assumed the position of corporate secretary-treasurer, although he retained C. G. Taylor in the role of president. In December 1935, after a series of clashes, William Piper bought out C. G. Taylor. In 1937 the company was renamed Piper Aircraft Corporation. In 1995, the company emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and was renamed The New Piper Aircraft. In July 2006, a partnership with Honda was announced and the following month the company dropped the "New" from its name, reverting to Piper Aircraft.
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Piper PA-18 Super Cub
The Piper PA-18 Super Cub is a two-seat, single-engine monoplane. Introduced in 1949 by Piper Aircraft, it was developed from the Piper PA-11, and traces its lineage back through the J-3 to the Taylor E-2 Cub of the 1930s. In close to 40 years of production, over 9,000 were built. Super Cubs are commonly found in roles such as bush flying, banner and glider towing.
Various designations exist, some militairy designations used are L-18C, L-21A and L-21B.
Piper L-21B (PA-18-135) Super Cub, registration PH-ENJ, built 1952, serial number 18-2540
Den Helder Airport (DHR/EHKD), Den Helder, Netherlands, 16 September 2017
this R-170 is the former USAF 52-6222,
the original R-170/18-3860/AF 54-2460 was damaged beyond repair at Seppe in 1982
Piper PA-18-180M Super Cub, registration HB-PIC, built 1996, serial number 18-8309025
Cointrin (GVA), Geneva, Switzerland, 25 July 2016
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PA-46
Piper PA-24 Comanche
The Piper PA-24 Comanche is a four-seat or six-seat, low-wing, all-metal, light aircraft of semi-monocoque construction with tricycle retractable landing gear. Piper Aircraft designed and developed the Comanche, which first flew on May 24, 1956. Together with the PA-30 and PA-39 Twin Comanche, it made up the core of the Piper Aircraft lineup until 1972, when the production lines for both aircraft were wiped out in a flood.
Piper PA-24-260 Comanche B, registration N37HE, built 1966, serial number 24-4514
Cointrin (GVA), Geneva, Switzerland, 21 July 2016
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PA-46
Piper PA-25 Pawnee
The PA-25 Pawnee was an agricultural aircraft produced by Piper Aircraft between 1959 and 1981. It remains a widely used aircraft in agricultural spraying and is also used as a tow plane, or tug, for launching gliders or for towing banners. In 1988 the design rights and support responsibility were sold to Latino Americana de Aviación of Argentina.
Piper PA-25-235 Pawnee, registration G-BDPJ, built 1965, serial number 25-3665
Volkel, Netherlands, 28 May 2017
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PA-46
Piper PA-28 Cherokee
The Piper PA-28 Cherokee is a family of light aircraft built by Piper Aircraft and designed for flight training, air taxi, and personal use. The PA-28 family of aircraft are all-metal, unpressurized, single-engine, piston-powered airplanes with low-mounted wings and tricycle landing gear. They have a single door on the copilot side, which is entered by stepping on the wing.
The first PA-28 received its type certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration in 1960, and the series remains in production to this day. Current models are the Warrior, Arrow and the Archer TX and LX. The Archer was discontinued in 2009, but with investment from new company ownership, the model was put back into production in 2010. The PA-28 series competes with the high-winged Cessna 172; and the similarly low-winged Grumman American AA-5 series and Beechcraft Musketeer designs.
Piper PA-28-181 Archer II, registration HB-PPV, built 1989, serial number 28-90123
Cointrin (GVA), Geneva, Switzerland, 23 July 2015
Piper PA-28-181 Archer II, registration HB-PPV, built 1989, serial number 28-90123
Cointrin (GVA), Geneva, Switzerland, 10 July 2016
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PA-46
Piper PA-31 Navajo
The Piper PA-31 Navajo is a family of cabin-class, twin-engined aircraft designed and built by Piper Aircraft for the general aviation market, most using Lycoming engines. It was also license-built in a number of Latin American countries. Targeted at small-scale cargo and feeder liner operations and the corporate market, the aircraft was a success. It continues to prove a popular choice, but due to greatly decreased demand across the general aviation sector in the 1980s, production of the PA-31 ceased in 1984.
The Piper PA-31T Cheyenne is a turboprop development of the earlier PA-31P Pressurized Navajo.
Piper PA-31T Cheyenne II, registration D-IASC, built 1977, serial number 31T-7720066
Nijmegen, Netherlands, 25 March 2017
Piper PA-31T Cheyenne II, registration D-IBGC, built 1981, serial number 31T-8166047
Nijmegen, Netherlands, 29 March 2019
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Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six
The Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six is a series of single-engine fixed landing gear light aircraft manufactured in the United States by Piper Aircraft between 1965 and 2007. The PA-32 is used around the world for private transportation, air taxi services, bush support, and medevac flights.
Piper PA-32R-301 Saratoga, registration HB-PQN, built 1998, serial number 32-46119
Cointrin (GVA), Geneva, Switzerland, 26 July 2016
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Piper PA-34 Seneca
The Piper PA-34 Seneca is a twin-engined light aircraft, produced in the United States by Piper Aircraft. It has been in non-continuous production since 1971 (2019). The Seneca is primarily used for personal and business flying.
Piper PA-34-220T Seneca, registration N962EC, built 2005, serial number 34-49318
Cointrin (GVA), Geneva, Switzerland, 2 July 2017
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Piper PA-39 Twin Comanche
The Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche is an American twin-engined cabin monoplane designed and built by Piper Aircraft. It was a twin-engined development of the PA-24 Comanche single-engined aircraft. A variant with counter-rotating propellers was designated the Piper PA-39 Twin Comanche C/R.
Piper PA-39, registration N8934Y, built 1971, serial number 39-95
Catalina Airport (CIB), Santa Catalina Island, CA, USA, 31 July 2010
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Piper PA-46 Malibu
The Piper PA-46 Malibu and Matrix are a family of American light aircraft manufactured by Piper Aircraft of Vero Beach, Florida. The aircraft is powered by a single engine and has the capacity for one pilot and five passengers. Early Malibus were all piston-engined, but a turboprop version, the Malibu Meridian, is also available. Work on the PA-46 began in the late 1970s, with a prototype (the PA-46-300T) first flying on November 30, 1979. The type was announced in November 1982, apparently to compete with Cessna's newest creation of the era, the P210 Centurion. Like the Centurion, the Malibu was to feature cabin pressurization (5.5 psi), a feature not included on the prototype.
The PA-46 is the third single-engined piston aircraft with a pressurized cabin to reach the market, after the Mooney M22 and Cessna P210 Centurion, and the only one still in production.
Piper PA-46-350P Malibu Mirage, registration PH-LUX, built 1995, serial number 4636011
Rotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM), Rotterdam, Netherlands, 28 October 2016
Piper PA-46-350P Malibu Mirage, registration N5EQ, built 1996, serial number 4636051
Cointrin (GVA), Geneva, Switzerland, 25 July 2016
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