Piper PA-28 Cherokee

what is it?

The Piper PA-28 Cherokee is a family of two-seat or four-seat light aircraft built by Piper Aircraft and designed for flight training, air taxi, and personal use. The PA-28 family of aircraft comprises all-metal, unpressurized, single piston-engined airplanes with low mounted wings and tricycle landing gear. They have a single door on the right side, which is entered by stepping on the wing.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 9.1 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 228 km/htop speed
• range 861 kmwithout refuelling
• seats 3passengers
• size 975 kgmax take-off weight
• built 32,778made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 66 years ago, in 1960.
• 🏎️Top speed is 1.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 9.1 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

1960-01-14

introduced

1960

number built

32,778

role

civil utility aircraft

origin

🇺🇸 United States

makers

Piper Aircraft

engines

1× Lycoming O-320-E2A

passengers

3

length

7.1 m

wingspan

9.1 m

height

2.2 m

max take-off weight

975 kg

top speed

228 km/h

cruise speed

200 km/h

range

861 km

ceiling

4,359 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.