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1959 Piper PA-24 180. The original version of the Comanche was the PA-24-180, which featured a carbureted 180 hp (134 kW) Lycoming O-360-A1A engine, swept tail, laminar flow airfoil, and all-flying stabilator.
Fred Lasby, 1994, oldest circumnavigation, at 82 years of age, in Piper Comanche. [50] Dick Smith, 1994–95, first east–west circumnavigation by helicopter, in a Sikorsky S-76, a distance traveled of 73,352 kilometres (39,407 nautical miles). Peter Joohak Lee, 1998, first Asian to circumnavigate the globe on a single engine aircraft.
Bera was a test pilot and became the first saleswoman for Piper and Beech aircraft. [8] Fran was a CFII for over 50 years and administered over 3,000 check ride exams for new pilots and advanced rated pilots. She primarily flew fixed wing and helicopters through much of her life. She stopped logging her flight hours after 25,000.
The plane, a single-engine Piper Comanche, went down early Friday morning, bursting into flames near the intersection of Hawthorne Boulevard and 126th Street in the city of Hawthorne, California.
In April 1966, she obtained another Piper Comanche, this time a 260B registered G-ATOY (named Myth Too) in which she set many of her records. [9] It was in this aircraft that she made her first solo round the world flight, departing London Heathrow on 18 May 1966 and returning on 20 June 1966, having covered approximately 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometres) in 189 flying hours over 34 days. [10]
A 1966 model Piper PA-32-260 Cherokee Six Piper PA-32-300. The Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six is a series of single-engine, fixed landing gear, light aircraft manufactured in the United States by Piper Aircraft between 1965 and 2007. [1] [2] The PA-32 is used around the world for private transportation, air taxi services, bush support, and medevac ...
Skip Stewart was born in Decatur, Alabama and was introduced to aviation by his grandfather, who worked as a crop-duster, and took Skip flying in a Piper PA-18 Super Cub and a Piper Twin Comanche. He went to his first airshow at around fourteen years of age, which is where he recalls his interest in aerobatics was born by watching the great Leo ...
A small aircraft was forced to belly-skid down the runway at Lubbock International Airport Friday night after its landing gear collapsed on approach.