Piper pa 24 comanche7/14/2023 FAA Type approval was awarded on February 5, 1963, the first production aircraft was completed on Apand the first delivery made on July 15, 1963. The prototype (registered N7000Y) was built at Lock Haven and first flew on November 7, 1962. The design was designated the PA-30 on the Maand named the Twin Comanche. A Comanche was modified with two 4-cylinder 160 hp (120 kW) Lycoming IO-320-B1A engines and first flew at San Antonio, Texas on. The prototype was converted from the single-engined Comanche by Ed Swearingen who at the time operated a facility that specialised in the modification of production aircraft. The Twin Comanche was designed to replace the Piper Apache in the company’s lineup of products. It was a twin-engined development of the PA-24 Comanche single-engined aircraft.Ī complex light twin, with retractable landing gear, seating 4 (in original models) to 6 (in later models), and cruise speeds ranging from 160-210 mph on twin 150-160 horsepower engines, it competed with the more-powerful Cessna 310 and Beech Baron, and later with Piper’s other light twins. The Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche is an American twin-engined cabin monoplane designed and built by Piper Aircraft. The aircraft is the perfect touring aircraft being fully IFR equipped and fast with a mid hour engines. G-BLOR, located in the heart of Devon at Dunkeswell, benefits from having exceptional paintwork after having a bare metal respray undertaken by FlyMoore in 2019. Listed with us in partnership with Flightline Aviation we are pleased to offer this beautiful twin Comanche powered by two mid hour Lycoming IO-320-B1A 4 cylinder 160 HP fuel injected engine.
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