The Cherokee Arrow, which was added to the Cherokee range of light touring aircraft in June 1967, was virtually a retractable-undercarriage version of the fixed-undercarriage Cherokee.
The Pazmany PL-1, known as the Laminar for its laminar flow wing, was designed by Ladislao Pazmany for the home-built aircraft market, the prototype flying for the first time on 23 March 1962.
The Twin Comanche series was designed to fill a market need for a small economical multi-engined machine which would provide day, night and all-weather utility, geared to small airports and short fields.
On 21 December 1955 the prototype Percival EP-9 was flown for the first time by the aircraft’s designer, and founder of the company, Mr Edgar W Percival, an Australian-born designer and builder of several very successful aircraft.
When the Cherokee was released, it was the first completely new model from the Piper stable for some time, and it represented a major change in design philosophy for the company.
Following the establishment by Percival Aircraft of its own manufacturing facility at Gravesend Airport in Kent, a new model of the Gull series was announced, this being a similar to the Gull IV but with a single-strut undercarriage, revised cabin top, and entrance doors, the main change being the installation
The Seneca was developed from the Piper Cherokee Six series, basically being a twin-engine version with the fuselage of the Cherokee Six using the Cherokee Six’s wings, horizontal tail and fuselage, standard single and optional double rear loading doors and single front door, with a new wing centre section so
With a flight crew of two on a separate flight deck, and normal accommodation for six to nine persons in the cabin, the Piper Model PA-42 Cheyenne III, introduced in 1979, became the largest aircraft of the Piper range.
Continuing its line of small to medium high-performance single-engine business and executive aircraft, in October 2007 Piper announced it was producing a new model of the Malibu series initially known initially as the Malibu Matrix but later becoming known as the Matrix.
With more than 1,200 examples of the Islander series delivered since 1987, the type has continued to be developed for both civil and military operators.
In 2009 Piper Aircraft was taken over by the Brunei Government and at this time Piper announced it would be producing a new training aircraft known as the Pipersport, this aircraft to be a derivative of the Czech Aircraft SportCruiser which is produced in the Czech Republic.
The Sinus is one of a series of motor-gliders produced by Pipistrel in Slovenia and which has been available as a complete aircraft for some years, with over 300 examples of the series being delivered, and which in recent years has been available in kit form for the amateur builder.
The Pitts Special series of aircraft was designed by Curtiss Pitts, the well-known American designer, as a high-performance, light sporting biplane, the first example, known as the S-1 Special, flying in September 1944.
The Super Cub, the prototype of which was flown in 1949, was a development of the Piper PA-11 Cub Special, which in turn was a development of the J-3 Cub of 1938.
The Kiebitz B was designed as a light touring sporting biplane in Germany by Mr Michael Platzer at Guxhagen in Germany and is available to amateur builders in kit form.
The PB-1 is a single-seat ultralight aircraft produced by PoorBoy Aviation of Minot, North Dakota and has been available to the market for some years in three variants, the PB-U, the PB-1 and the PB-H and is aimed at the market for a simple design with a simple construction technique.
The STOL King was designed and produced by Preceptor Aircraft based at /Rutherfordton in North Carolina as an amateur-built light aircraft to be available as a plans or it.
The Poliwagen was a light sporting aircraft designed for amateur construction of composite structure. The first of three prototypes made its initial flight in 1977.
At the end of World War II Percival Aircraft Ltd produced a five-seat commercial aircraft known as the P.48 Merganser, which was of all-metal, stressed skin construction with fabric covered control surfaces.
The Sabre 1K-1R was a high-wing strut-braced ultra-light aircraft with an open cockpit marketed by Pour le Merite Ultralights of Nagambie, VIC in the 1980s and was designed to meet ANO 95.10.
Pterodactyl in the United States produced a number of ultralight aircraft for the sports aircraft market and these included the Ptraveller, the Pfledge and the Ascender II.
As noted elsewhere, the M-18 Dromader is a fire-fighting and agricultural aeroplane designed to operate under night and day VFR conditions and built to comply with FAR Pt 23, and AMDT.16 built by Polskie Zaktady Lotnicze in Mielec in Poland.
The Tomahawk was designed by Piper Aircraft basically as a good, all-round, training aircraft with emphasis on simplicity of maintenance and low operating costs, and to compete with the Cessna 150 series on the World market.
The Cresco was a logical development of the Fletcher FU-24 agricultural aircraft, which was produced in large numbers for many years, firstly in the USA, and later in New Zealand from 1955
The CT-4F is a variant of the CT-4E series produced by Pacific Aerospace and Raytheon Australia, a prototype (VH-XFR) being built and shown at the Australian International Air Show at Avalon, VIC in 2007, this model being aimed at meeting a requirement of the Australian Department of Defence for a
The prototype of the Smith Aerostar series, known as the 320, flew for the first time in November 1966 powered by two Lycoming IO-320 engines but as time went by more powerful engines were fitted to new models to increase performance.
The TWA-4 was a three-seat light cabin monoplane which in general appearance looked much like the Percival Gull series designed by Edgar Percival in the United Kingdom.
The Knight Twister is a single-seat, single-engine, aerobatic sport biplane designed in 1928, built and first flown in 1932 by Vernon W Payne, and since then it has been marketed in plan form for home constructors.