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The PA-28-161 Warrior II flying in the livery of the Singapore Youth Flying Club. At the time of the Cherokee's introduction, Piper's primary single-engined, all-metal aircraft was the Piper PA-24 Comanche, a larger, faster aircraft with retractable landing gear and a constant-speed propeller.
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 PA-28R-300 Pillán: 1982 2 [a] Two-seat military trainer designed for ENAER of Chile PA-29 Papoose: 1962 1
The PA-44-180T Turbo Seminole version was certified on November 29, 1979. It features two turbocharged 180 hp (135 kW) Lycoming TO-360-E1A6D engines, which offer a significant improvement in performance at high density altitude. The Turbo Seminole had its takeoff gross weight raised to 3925 lb (1780 kg), while the landing weight remained at ...
The standard fuel capacity of the PA-24-180 was 60 US gallons (230 L). The flaps were manually actuated, controlled by the same Johnson bar actuator as the Piper Cherokee . The aircraft specifications were for cruise speeds of 116 to 139 knots (215 to 257 km/h) and fuel burns between 7.5 and 10.5 gallons per hour (28 and 40 L/h) at 55 and 75% ...
The PA-32 series was developed to meet a requirement for a larger aircraft than the four-seat Piper PA-28 Cherokee. [3] The first prototype PA-32 made its initial flight on December 6, 1963, with the type being publicly announced in October 1964, with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) aircraft_type certification following on March 4, 1965. [4]
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. The LIO-320s were both certified on 28 August 1969. [2] [3] The O-320 family of engines externally resembles the Lycoming O-235 and O-290 family from which they were derived. The O-320 shares the same 3. ...
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The following year, the PA-28 Cherokee was the first type to enter production at the new Vero Beach factory. [16] [17] The Cherokee replaced the Tri-Pacer and Colt, which ended their production runs in 1961 and 1964 respectively. [16] By the later part of the decade, Vero Beach was building 7,000 Cherokees per year. [18]