Piper PA-38 Tomahawk

what is it?

The Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk is a two-seat, fixed tricycle gear general aviation airplane, originally designed for flight training, touring and personal use.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10.4 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 203 km/htop speed
• size 758 kgmax take-off weight
• built 2,484made 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

• 🏎️Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 10.4 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

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introduced

1977

number built

2,484

role

light aircraft

makers

Piper Aircraft

engines

1× Avco Lycoming O-235-L2C

length

7 m

wingspan

10.4 m

height

2.7 m

max take-off weight

758 kg

top speed

203 km/h

cruise speed

185 km/h

range

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ceiling

3,962 m

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