Piper PT-1

Short description: US two-seat primary training aircraft; 1942

PT-1 Trainer

Role  | Monoplane trainer
Manufacturer  | Piper Aircraft
First flight  | 1942
Number built | 1

The Piper PT-1 was a 1940s United States two-seat primary training monoplane designed and built by Piper Aircraft at Lock Haven. A low-wing tandem two-seat monoplane, the PT-1 was the first Piper aircraft to have a low-wing. It had a fabric covering over an all-metal fuselage frame and wooden spar wings and tail unit. The PT-1 had a retractable tailwheel landing gear and was powered by a 130 hp (97 kW) Franklin 6AC-2980D engine. No further aircraft were built. A four-seat development was designed as the Piper PWA-6 which did not go into production either.

## Specifications (PT-1)

Data from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1947[1]

General characteristics

* Crew: 2
* Length: 22 ft 8 in (6.9 m)
* Wingspan: 35 ft 2 in (10.72 m)
* Height: 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
* Empty weight: 1,325 lb (601 kg)
* Gross weight: 2,000 lb (907 kg)
* Powerplant: 1 × Franklin 6AC-298 6-cyl. air-cooled horizontally-opposed piston engine, 130 hp (97 kW)
* Propellers: 2-bladed fixed pitch wooden airscrew

Performance

* Maximum speed: 150 mph (240 km/h, 130 kn) plus
* Cruise speed: 135 mph (217 km/h, 117 kn) plus
* Landing speed: less than 50 mph (43 kn; 80 km/h)
* Range: 700 mi (1,100 km, 610 nmi)
* Service ceiling: 12,400 ft (3,800 m)
* Rate of climb: 750 ft/min (3.8 m/s) to 1,000 ft/min (300 m/min)

## See also

* I.Ae. 31 Colibrí
* IMPA Tu-Sa

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era

* Aeronca Arrow
* Culver Cadet
* Globe GC-1 Swift
* Johnson Rocket 185

## References

1. ↑ Bridgman, Leonard, ed (1947). Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1947. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. pp. 278c–279c.

## Bibliography

* Auliard, Gilles (September–October 2001). ""Unknown Piper": Reviving the PT-1". Air Enthusiast (95): 12–13. ISSN 0143-5450.
* Peperell, Roger W.; Smith, Colin M. (1987). Piper Aircraft and their forerunners. London: Air-Britain (Historians). pp. 47–50. ISBN 0-85130-149-5.
* "Piper PT Trainer". Flying 33 (1): 110, 119. July 1943. https://books.google.com/books?id=a73U-LVtMckC&pg=PA110. Retrieved 20 August 2021.

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