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The Piper PA-28 Cherokee is a family of two-seat or four-seat light aircraft built by Piper Aircraft and designed for flight training, air taxi and personal use. [2] The PA-28 family of aircraft comprises all-metal, unpressurized, single piston-engined airplanes with low-mounted wings and tricycle landing gear .
The first O-320 (with no suffix) was FAA certified on 28 July 1953 to CAR 13 effective 5 March 1952; this same engine was later re-designated, without change, as the O-320-A1A. [2] The first IO-320 was certified on 10 April 1961, with the AIO-320 following on 23 June 1969 and the first aerobatic AEIO-320 on 12 April 1974.
Improved version of the PA-23, kept PA-23 designation PA-28 Cherokee: 1961 10,896 Single-engined low-wing cabin monoplane PA-28-140 Cherokee: 1964 10,089 Two-seat training variant PA-28 Warrior: 1974 4,842 Improved PA-28 PA-28-235 Cherokee/Dakota: 1964 2,913 Higher-power PA-28 PA-28R Arrow: 1967 6,694 Retractable landing gear variant of the PA-28
Piper Aircraft Company factory in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania during the 1930s, with the Piper Cub logo superimposed at the top Piper PA-18-150 Super Cub.Built 1958. Piper PA-28-161 Warrior II Piper PA-34 Seneca-200T Piper PA-31 Navajo airframe used for crash testing by NASA after a 1972 flood inundated Piper's factory Early-production PA-31 Navajo Piper PA-32-RT-300T Turbo Lance II Piper PA-44 ...
PA-25-235 and PA-25-260 Pawnee D The Pawnee D was also powered by a Lycoming O-540 of 260hp but featured fuel tanks fitted in the outer wings and metal covered ailerons and flaps. From 1980 it was known as the PA-25-235 Pawnee. eTug A modified PA-25 powered by a General Motors LS automotive engine driving a three-bladed propeller. [10]
The Lycoming O-290 is a dual ignition, four-cylinder, air-cooled, horizontally opposed aircraft engine.It was first run in 1939, and entered production three years later. A common variant of the type is the O-290-G, a single ignition model which was designed to drive a generator as part of a ground power unit.
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On June 25, 2011, a Piper PA-28-140 airplane was substantially damaged during a runway excursion while landing at Harry Clever Field Airport. The pilot reported that, before entering the traffic pattern, the airport's windsock appeared to be "limp/down" and that he decided land on runway 14.