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The Piper J-3 Cub is an American light aircraft that was built between 1938 and 1947 by Piper Aircraft. The aircraft has a simple, lightweight design which gives it good low-speed handling properties and short-field performance.
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Four-seat personal/trainer aircraft to replace the Cherokee PA-60 Aerostar: 1967 1,010 Six-seat pressurized twin, 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 ...
The Piper J-4 Cub Coupe is a two place side-by-side version of the Piper J-3 that was built between 1938 and 1942 by Piper Aircraft. It was Piper's first model with side-by-side seating. It was Piper's first model with side-by-side seating.
PA-11 Cub Special at Chelles airfield near Paris in June 1967 PA-11 Two-seat light aircraft, powered by either a 65 hp (48 kW) Continental A65-8 or a 95 hp (71 kW) Continental C90-8 piston engine. PA-11S Seaplane variant with twin EDO 1400 floats. L-18B
The museum purchased the former Piper Aircraft engineering building in late 1996. [ 4 ] One of the two first light aircraft to circumnavigate the globe, a PA-12 named The City of Angels , was donated in mid-2006 by the museum's historian, Harry P. Mutter.
In 1936 and 1937 some aircraft were completed by Aircraft Associates in California and these were known as the Western Cub. In 1937 the original Piper factory, a renovated former silk mill in Bradford, PA , was destroyed by fire and the company moved to Lock Haven, PA and production restarted in May 1937 and the company was renamed the Piper ...
The aircraft does differ from the original Piper design in several ways including having its fuselage fabricated from 4130 steel instead of the Cub's original 1025 carbon steel and utilizing a conventional elevator-mounted trim tab in place of the Cub's jack screw trimming system that adjusts the Cub's elevator angle of incidence. [2] [6]