Piper PA-24 Comanche

The Piper PA-24 Comanche is a four-seat light utility aircraft first launched in 1957. It is a low-wing, all-metal aircraft with retractable landing gear. Together with the twin-engine version of the same airframe, the Twin Comanche, it made up the core of the Piper aircraft line-up until 1972 when the production lines for both aircraft were wiped out in a flood. At that time Piper had already begun to concentrate on its successful 140/180 and Cherokee line, which were in fact originally conceived as cheaper alternatives to the increasingly expensive Commanche. The original version featured a 180 hp (134 kW) Lycoming 0-360 engine, swept tail, laminar flow wing, and stabilator. Reportedly designed by Howard "Pug" Piper himself, the Comanche was intended to compete in the market with the successful Beechcraft Bonanza.

External Link

• The International Comanche Society