Introduction The genesis of the Piper Saratoga resulted from a hurricane in 1972, whose flooding wiped out much of the Piper plant at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Also destroyed was the tooling for the then-popular single and twin Piper Comanche. Given Comanche’s were labor-intensive to build, Piper chose to design a new retractable gear aircraft based …
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The Piper J3 Cub was Piper’s most produced aircraft, with 20,000 built between 1938 and 1947. Unusually for Piper, which generally produced low wing airplanes, it was a high wing aircraft. It was a two-seater and designed primarily as a trainer and general aviation aircraft. And like most aircraft of that period, it was a …
Introduction There was a time in aviation history when aircraft manufacturers were falling over themselves to serve a seemingly insatiable demand for executive-level light twin-engined aircraft. Reaching fever pitch in the 1980s, Cessna had positioned itself well for the demand, offering light twins for almost every conceivable subsection of the market. The design of the …
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Introduction When 9,490 aircraft of a specific model sell in a 14-year production window, you know the designers have got it right. In 1950, the Tri-Pacer leveraged off the success of its much-loved sibling, the Pa-20 Pacer, and went on to become a legend. Until that time, most aircraft produced had a conventional undercarriage arrangement, …
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Introduction Classics die hard, and few aircraft prove this as much as the Learjet 60. Produced until 2012, this iconic aircraft was the very last of the Learjet series which was still based on the 1960s Learjet 23 designed by Bill Lear based on the Swiss FFA P-16 fighter prototype. All Learjet aircraft have been …
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Introduction After revolutionizing the private jet market with the Learjet 23, Robert Lear’s creation went on to have multiple variants throughout the company’s many ownership changes. The most popular and easily recognizable one will forever be the Learjet 35. A sleek and nimble business jet with a small profile, fighter wings, and wingtip tanks, it …
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Introduction Cessna 140 is a two-seat tailwheel aircraft manufactured by Cessna following WWII. It used the same fuselage as the 120, which is a less expensive form of the 140 that lacks an electrical system, flaps, and extra side windows. When I examined the IAI (Aerospace Industries Association) Aircraft and Aerospace Yearbooks, it was no …
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The Piper Archer and Cessna 172 are both four-seater, all-metal aircraft that are popular with private pilots and owners alike. Either one is quite likely to be the aircraft a new pilot first flies after getting his or her license. New pilots are often looking for a four-seater aircraft so that they can take family …
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All military aircraft from the famous Russian design bureau Mikoyan-Gurevich earn the model designator of MiG. Founded by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich in 1939, their design creations bear their last initials joined with the letter ‘i’, the Russian letter for ‘and’. In 1950, the Mikoyan-Gurevich team was tasked to design a replacement for the …
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The Piper Archer is one of the PA-28 family of aircraft, the others being the Cherokee, Warrior, and Arrow. All of them are fairly similar in being low-wing, all-metal, single-engined aircraft with the tricycle landing gear. They are primarily designed for training and private flying. They all have a single door on the right-hand side, …
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