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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.
2001: The Polen Special set the FAI Class C-1.b (takeoff weight 500 to 1000 kg) speed record of 303.4 mph (488.3 km/h) for a 500 km (310 mi) circuit; the record still stands in 2022. (The Flying article says it flew 360 miles between Oshkosh and Monticello IA in 70 min 03 sec.) Pilot-owner Richard C. Keyt won the Blériot medal for the effort. [10]
This is a list of the aircraft types flown by Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown, RN.The list was compiled and verified by the Guinness Book of Records. [1]The list includes only the main aircraft types, for example, Brown flew 14 different marks of Spitfire, but only the basic types are listed here.
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]
The PA-28-161 Warrior II flying in the livery of the Singapore Youth Flying Club. At the time of the Cherokee's introduction, Piper's primary single-engined, all-metal aircraft was the Piper PA-24 Comanche, a larger, faster aircraft with retractable landing gear and a constant-speed propeller.
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.
A small aircraft was forced to belly-skid down the runway at Lubbock International Airport Friday night after its landing gear collapsed on approach.
The Ravin 500 is based on the design of the aluminum Piper PA-24 Comanche, but rendered in composite materials and scaled down some 6–7%. [3] The Ravin 500 features a cantilever low-wing, a four-seat enclosed cabin, accessed by doors, retractable tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. The cabin is 45 in (114 cm) wide.