Piper Aircraft
The Piper Aircraft, Inc. is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Vero Beach, Florida.
- 2.1 Piper J -3 " Cub "
- 2.2 Piper PA-28 "Cherokee"
- 2.3 Piper PA -34 " Seneca "
- 2.4 Piper PA -42 "Cheyenne"
History
Taylor Aircraft
The company was founded by Clarence Gilbert Taylor and Gordon A. Taylor as Taylor Brothers Aircraft Manufacturing Company in Rochester, New York in September 1927. In April 1928, the name was changed to Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corporation, shortly before the fatal crash, Gordon Taylor on 24 April 1928. Obtain After the promise of better production facilities and financial support from local business, the company moved in September 1929 to Bradford, Pennsylvania. One of the donors was the oil entrepreneur William T. Piper, who initially contributed $ 400.
End of 1930 Taylor Brothers was bankrupt. William T. Piper purchased the production facilities for $ 761 and founded the Taylor Aircraft Company, Clarence Taylor was given the chairmanship of the. Piper was convinced that an easy-to -fly inexpensive plane will have success.
After a series of crashes Piper took over in December 1935, the company's shares by Clarence Taylor, who left the company and his own company, the Taylorcraft Aircraft Company founded. On March 16, 1937, the factories were burnt down in Bradford. The company moved then an empty textile factory in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. In November 1937, the renamed Piper Aircraft Corporation was made.
Piper Aircraft
Piper led initially begun by the Taylor Aircraft Production, constructed by Walter Jamouneau Piper J- 3 Cub on. As the demand for aircraft of all kinds increased strongly at the outbreak of the Second World War, was a development of the Piper Cub, the Piper L-4, the U.S. Military as a training aircraft use. The L-4 was the first Piper - type, which was built in large series.
Until 1954, all Piper aircraft were carried out in mixed construction with fabric-covered steel tube fuselage. Was published in 1954, the Piper Apache Piper was the first aircraft in self-supporting lightweight alloys. The Apache was also Piper's first twin-engine aircraft.
The aircraft had to be adjusted mid-1980s after the rise in insurance premiums had made an economic operation impossible. This was a result of law extended to several decades of product liability. Also competing companies such as Cessna stopped manufacturing the product. After the early 1990s, the legal liability was limited again, the production increased by a management buy -out called into life New Piper Aircraft in 1995 to again. Since August 2006, the company is again the name of Piper Aircraft. In May 2009, the Company sold the previous owner, American Capital Ltd.. , To the Imprimis Strategic Investment Corporation of Brunei.
Examples of Piper aircraft models
The product range comprises of Piper single and twin-engine aircraft used for general aviation, some with piston engine, some with turboprop engines. In addition, Piper takes over the distribution of the Liberty XL-2 and plans to market the HondaJet.
Piper J -3 " Cub "
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The Piper J- 3 Cub is a lightweight single-engine plane for up to two people. It was designed as a trainer and quickly became the first major success for Piper. From 1938 to 1947 more than 14,000 copies were manufactured.
Piper PA-28 "Cherokee"
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Piper developed the PA-28 primarily as a school and touring aircraft. To date, more than 23 versions were presented and delivered more than 43,000 aircraft. Thus, the PA-28 is the most successful aircraft of Piper and one of the most built aircraft at all.
Piper PA -34 " Seneca "
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The twin-engine business aircraft for up to five passengers has been produced since 1971.
Piper PA -42 "Cheyenne"
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The Cheyenne III and IV is the largest series-produced aircraft development from Piper. The two Turboproptriebwerken driven aircraft seats up to nine passengers and two crewmembers. It 192 copies were made .