Tag: Piper Aircraft

Piper Delivers 100th Pilot 100i to Paragon Flight Training

Piper Aircraft announced the recent delivery of Pilot 100i S/N #100 to Paragon Flight Training. This manufacturing milestone comes as a result of collaboration between Piper Aircraft, our vendors, and valued flight school partners. The Piper Pilot 100i was introduced in 2019 as the latest idea...

Pratt & Whitney Canada Delivers 1,000th PT6A-42A to Piper Aircraft

Pratt & Whitney Canada, a business unit of Pratt & Whitney, announced today that it has shipped the 1,000th PT6A-42A engine from its Lethbridge, Alberta, Centre of Excellence to Piper Aircraft in Vero Beach, Fla. Piper uses the engine model to power its ever popular, single-engine M500, M...

Garden City Airport Aids in Piper HALO Safety System Autoland Certification

Piper Aircraft, Inc. announced this week that the Garden City Airport located in Garden City, Kansas, played a key role in the certification flight test for the M600/SLS HALO safety system’s Garmin Auto-land feature. The airport was selected in 2019 as the ideal location for a live activation of ...

Piper Aircraft HALO Safety System Certified on M600/SLS

Piper Aircraft announced today that the company’s newest flagship, the Piper M600/SLS, has received type certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its new HALO safety system -making it the first Garmin Autoland equipped aircraft in the world to receive certification. Delive...

British family killed in general aviation crash in Swiss Alps

Two renowned British musicians and their baby daughter have been killed in a light aircraft crash in the Swiss Alps. Acclaimed saxophonist Hannah Goldstein and her husband Jonathan Goldstein, an award-winning composer, were on board the Piper aircraft with their seven-month-old Saskia when it we...

UPDATE: Body discovered at located aircraft wreckage

The UK government’s Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB) has agreed a search strategy with Blue Water Recoveries, after identifying a priority search area last week, maximising the chances of locating the aircraft wreckage. The AAIB commissioned specialist vessel Geo Ocean III while Blue Wat...

UK’s AAIB finds pieces of aircraft at sea belonging to the missing Piper Malibu

The search for missing Piper Malibu N264DB has reopened as professionals from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) continue working alongside other international initiatives to locate the aircraft. With more than one search underway, it has been confirmed that pieces of an aircraft were di...

Update: Pilot named as search continues for missing Piper Malibu plane

The search continues for the missing Piper Malibu plane that disappeared in the English Channel, with Premier League footballer Emiliano Sala on board. A British pilot was the only other person with Mr Sala on the aircraft. He has now been named as Dave Ibbotson, a 60-year-old father of three. H...

Search for missing Piper Malibu plane resumed this morning

Search and rescue operations, looking for the missing Piper Malibu plane, have resumed this morning after they were suspended yesterday evening. Premier League footballer Emiliano Sala and one other passenger were on the aircraft which disappeared off radars over the Channel Islands, at 20.30 in th...

Update: Rescue search continues for missing PA 46 Piper Malibu plane

According to Police in France, 1,155sq miles have been searched so far. A decision will be made at sunset as to whether or not to continue the search for missing PA 46 Piper Malibu plane and 28-year-old footballer, Emiliano Sala. A spokesperson from the Guernsey Police, said: "One plane and one l...

Footballer feared dead after Piper Malibu plane reported missing

A footballer, who has signed for Cardiff City, is missing after his private jet—a Piper Malibu plane—went missing from radar screens last night (21 January). French Police have confirmed that Emiliano Sala was on a light aircraft that disappeared from the skies ever the English Channel Islands,...

Netherlands added to exclusive sales territory by European Aircraft Sales

At the beginning of January, it was confirmed that European Aircraft Sales (EAS) has been appointed the new exclusive dealer of Piper Aircraft based in Hans Christian Andersen Airport in Odense, Denmark, is adding a significant new European territory to their existing territories in Scandinavia and ...

Piper names distributor in South American region

Piper Aircraft has named its distributor in the South American countries of Bolivia and Peru as Aviation Marketing Group. AMG will take exclusive ownership of distribution in the countries. Piper stated that it chose the company for its more than four decades of experience in the Latin America ma...

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