VERO BEACH, Florida — Piper Aircraft recently unveiled three new aircraft as part of its M-Class line of single-engine, pressurized, cabin class business aircraft: The M600, the M500, and the M350. [Read more…]
Discovery Channel’s ‘How It’s Made’ wraps up filming at Piper Aircraft
VERO BEACH, Fla. — The Discovery Channel’s “How It’s Made” documentary television series has completed filming at Piper Aircraft, wrapping up two detail-intensive days in the factory and supporting departments. [Read more…]
Piper launches Meridian M500
Piper Aircraft has introduced its newest M-Class single-engine Meridian M500 turbine business aircraft with the latest in Garmin avionics, enhanced safety features and a number of other improvements, according to officials with the Vero Beach, Fla.-based company. [Read more…]
Piper delivers Arrows to Kent State
Piper Aircraft recently delivered two new Piper Arrow training aircraft to the Aeronautics Division at Kent State University’s College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology in Ohio. [Read more…]
Piper M-Class approved by China
VERO BEACH, Fla. — Piper Aircraft has received a Validation of Type Certificate issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) for its M-Class single-engine aircraft. The Piper M-Class series consists of the turboprop Piper Meridian, the pressurized piston-powered Piper Mirage and the unpressurized piston-powered Piper Matrix.
Kent State University to get new Piper Arrow trainers
Piper Aircraft will deliver two new Piper Arrow training aircraft later this year to the Aeronautics Division at Kent State University‘s College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology.
EAA, AOPA and Piper host Appleton students at AirVenture
OSHKOSH — The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) and Piper Aircraft hostde a special group of students and their teacher from Appleton, Wis., Thursday, July 31, during AirVenture Oshkosh 2014.
A number of years ago, Woodland Elementary School fifth grade teacher Eric Vander Loop’s teacher’s aide shared that his mother had been diagnosed with cancer. Vander Loop saw an opportunity to help while teaching his students about kindness to strangers.
Since then, students at the school district in Appleton have raised more than $120,000 for cancer research, a compassionate outcome that earned Vander Loop a recent opportunity to represent the Milwaukee Brewers during the All-Star game as one of 30 winners of People magazine and Major League Baseball’s All-Star Teachers campaign presented by Target. The students that began the program in fifth grade are high school juniors today.
Piper Seneca V approved for Garmin GFC 700
VERO BEACH, Fla. — Piper Aircraft has received Amended Type Certificate approval from the FAA to incorporate the Garmin GFC 700 autopilot system in new Garmin G1000-equipped twin-engine Piper Seneca V aircraft.
STC approved for Hartzell prop on Cherokees and Dakotas
Professional Pilots Inc. recently received FAA STC approval for Hartzell’s new “Scimitar” propeller on the Piper Cherokee 235 and Dakota.
Embry-Riddle adds Arrow trainers to fleet
VERO BEACH, Fla. — Piper Aircraft will begin delivering the first of five new Piper Arrow pilot training aircraft to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach, Fla. campus.