Top speed 201 km/h Wingspan 8.92 m Length 6.12 m First flight 1947 | Range 778 km Weight 385 kg | |
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Our piper pa 16 clipper aircraft engine start and run up
The Piper PA-16 Clipper is an extended fuselage model of the PA-15 Vagabond. Both models were designed in 1947 for the same reason - Piper Aircraft found itself in dire financial straits and needed to create new, competitive models using existing parts and tooling. The result was the Vagabond, essentially a side-by-side version of the tandem J-3 Cub credited with saving the company.
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- Our piper pa 16 clipper aircraft engine start and run up
- Piper pa 16 clipper takeoff
- Development
- Cost
- Nomenclature
- Specifications PA 16
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Piper pa 16 clipper takeoff
Development
The PA-16 Clipper is a stretched and refined version of the Vagabond intended to seat four people (or "two-and-a-half to three" as often told by Clipper pilots). It is equipped with an extra wing tank, added doors to accommodate the new seating, and a Lycoming O-235, the same engine that would later power the Cessna 152. The PA-16 Clipper retained the control sticks that had up to that point been common in aircraft derived from the "Cub" family.
Cost
In 1949, the Clipper sold for $2995. The average four-place airplane on the market at that time cost over $5000. Only 736 Clippers were built in the one year of production before Piper changed to the Piper PA-20 Pacer.
Nomenclature
Pan Am Airlines, who traditionally called its famous luxury airliners "Clippers", took offense at Piper using the name for their light aircraft. As a result of this pressure Piper further refined the model, adding wing flaps, further fuel tanks and replaced the control sticks with yokes. A more powerful Lycoming O-290 125 hp engine was installed and this model became the Piper PA-20 Pacer.
Specifications (PA-16)
Data from Plane and Pilot: 1978 Aircraft Directory & Fonden Danmarks Flymuseum
General characteristics
Performance
Avionics
Originally none were fitted. Many now have VHF Nav-com radios, GPS and transponders installed.