Piper PA-38 Tomahawk

what is it?

The Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk is a twin-seat general aviation aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Piper. Designed specifically to be used for flight training, it can also be used for both 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.