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Piper Dakota, PA-28-236
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Scale 1:24 Length 12.5" Wingspan 17.5"
Photography by Action Asia Photo |
In the late fifties and early sixties, general aviation
was thriving and manufacturers responded to the market demand with some
outstanding aircraft. It seemed that Cessna and Piper were the “General
Motors” and “Fords” of the aviation industry - each with distinctive products
and both producing excellent aircraft. Cessna and Piper had both initially
produced high wing aircraft and the Cherokee was Piper’s exploration
(in 1960) into a low wing, all metal aircraft series. The basic design of
the Cherokee line was a tight fuselage, with a dihedral "Hershey bar" wing.
The wing was inexpensive to craft and produced outstanding handling characteristics.
Piper created around the same basic airframe and new wing a whole series
of aircraft with different payloads and capabilities based on the size of
the engine out front - from a trainer (Cherokee 140) with a 160hp
Lycoming through to a 300hp engine for its top of the line six seat Lance.
Each aircraft was similar enough that moving from one to another was a pretty
straight-forward thing. Of all Cherokees the most popular were the 140 series
of which there were many different models and the 180 which was Piper's
standard sedan of the air. The PA-28-150 and PA-28-160 Cherokees were introduced in 1961 and were powered respectively by 150 or 160 hp engines. Following subtypes included the PA-28-140, PA-28-151, PA-28-161, PA-28-180, PA-28-235 & PA-28-236. Initially some sub-variants were known by various other names. For example, the -151 was called ‘Cherokee Warrior’; the -180 was called both ‘Cherokee Challenger’ and ‘Cherokee Archer’; the -181 was called ‘Cherokee Archer II’ and the -235 was called both ‘Cherokee Charger’ and ‘Cherokee Pathfinder’. The 'Cherokee' prefix was dropped for the Archer II and Warrior names, and later versions were known simply as, Warrior II (PA-28-161), Dakota (PA-28-236), and Turbo Dakota (PA-28-236T). The Archer II (with a tapered rather than the straight wing) and Dakota (straight wing) returned to limited production in 1994, and the Archer III (PA-28-181) appeared in 1995, followed by the Warrior III (PA-28-161). The model shown is a Piper PA-28-236 ‘Dakota’.
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Piper Dakota (PA28-236) |
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