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Piper purchased the design from Ted R. Smith: PiperSport: 2010 85 Two-seat light-sport aircraft marketed by Piper between January 2010 and January 2011. It was produced by Czech Sport Aircraft and previously known as the SportCruiser Piper M350: 2015 69 Six-seat pressurized piston single; formerly named Malibu Mirage; only M350 production listed
The M350 is an updated version of the Mirage and is recognized as one of the safest single-engines by the airplane insurance industry. [3] The M350 is fitted with the same 350 hp (261 kW) turbocharged Lycoming TIO-540-AE2A engine and Hartzell three-bladed propeller as the Mirage. Improvements over the Mirage are an Ametek digital fuel quantity ...
On 21 January 2010, Piper Aircraft announced that they had licensed a derivative of the SportCruiser and would market it as the PiperSport.Piper CEO Kevin Gould said: "The PiperSport is an amazing entry-level aircraft that will bring new customers into Piper and lead the way for those customers to step up into more sophisticated and higher performance aircraft within our line over time."
Ace Aviation was owned by Wilbur (Pip) Snyder, who owned an Ace Hardware in Roselle Illinois and was a Piper dealer. Internal to Ace Aviation was Cliff Hutton, the airport manager. Roselle Beechcraft was owned by Harold (Hal) MaGee (who represented the "M" in B&M, while the "B" was Brunke, who had died) and Richard (Dick) C. Leach.
The Stinson Aircraft Company was founded in Dayton, Ohio, in 1920 by aviator Edward “Eddie” Stinson, the brother of aviator Katherine Stinson.After five years of business ventures, Eddie made Detroit, Michigan the focus of his future flying endeavors while still flying as a stunt pilot, earning $100,000 a year for his efforts — a huge sum in those days.
Questair, Inc. was founded by Ed MacDonough and Jim Griswold in the mid 1980s. The Venture was designed by Griswold, a former chief engineer with Piper Aircraft, and used technology from the Piper Malibu, which Griswold led the design for as well. [3]
Piper started the design work in 1965 for a twin-engined piston non-pressurized commuter airliner and the prototype first flew on 13 May 1968. [1] It was a low-wing monoplane that was intended to be powered by two 475 hp (354 kW) Lycoming TIO-720-B1A piston engines then under development.
Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1976–77 General characteristics Crew: 2 Capacity: 4–6 passengers Length: 34 ft 8 in (10.57 m) Wingspan: 42 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (13.011 m) (over tip tanks) Height: 12 ft 9 in (3.89 m) Wing area: 229 sq ft (21.3 m 2) Airfoil: NACA 63 2 -415 at root, 63A212 at tip Empty weight: 4,870 lb (2,209 kg) Max takeoff weight: 9,000 lb (4,082 kg) Fuel capacity ...