Piper Celebrates 75-Year Milestone with Company Fly-In

Bethany Whitfield

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 11:56 PM ET

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** A Piper Cub sits the grass outside of the
company's headquarters in Vero Beach.**

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Piper celebrated its 75th anniversary with a successful fly-in event at its Vero Beach headquarters, attracting hundreds of people and a wide variety of its historic aircraft.
Despite a challenging economic climate, Piper reported positive revenue reports, with new aircraft sales through Q3 2012 up over 15 percent from the previous year, largely due to its M-Class single-engine airplanes.
Piper announced a new partnership with the Florida Institute of Technology, which will receive eight Piper Archer TX training airplanes (with an option for 16 more) featuring Garmin's G1000 suite, which will become standard on all Archer and Seminole models.

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Piper celebrated its 75th anniversary over the weekend with a fly-in that drew Piper airplanes from every era to the company’s headquarters in Vero Beach, Florida.

Several hundred people came out to the event to pay tribute to the storied manufacturer, enjoy a factory tour, visit with aviation vendors and take in the sights and sounds of the varied aircraft that made the trip. Among them were several dozen Piper Cubs, along with countless other Piper icons, including everything from the company’s first twin-engine airplane, the Apache, to numerous Cherokees.