Piper Aircraft

Piper Aircraft and the University of North Dakota (UND) John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences have launched a new brand ambassador program to increase awareness of the university’s programs and showcase the 120 Piper training aircraft in use at the school. The goal of the ambassador program is to “create a community of like-minded […]

Turning to Bart Jones, who was sitting beside me in the cockpit as we flew over the Florida coast, I told him the battery wasn’t working in my headset. The whomp that active noise reduction creates when the power’s going made for quite a distraction. After a beat, and with a nonchalant shrug, he took […]

ATP Flight School already operates the largest GA training fleet in the world with more than 402—mostly Piper—aircraft. The company recently accepted delivery of an additional half-dozen Archers TXs and reaffirmed an order for 100 additional training airplanes. In a news release, the company said, “Despite the setback from COVID-19, the airline industry anticipates a […]

Piper Aircraft and Garmin International announced on Monday, May 18, 2020, the final FAA certification on the Halo-equipped Piper M600SLS, which uses Garmin’s Autoland feature to land the airplane without human intervention in the event of a pilot-incapacitating emergency. The last push to finish flight tests on the innovative system consisted of validation and coordination […]

Your punishment for whatever mistake you’ve made in an airplane shouldn’t be the ultimate one. Not for you—and certainly not for your passengers. That’s the underlying philosophy inspiring engineers to create revolutionary safety technologies for light aircraft across the past century. Advancements such as the large-format multifunction display with in-cockpit weather, upset protection and emergency-descent […]

The application period for Piper Aircraft’s 2020 Apprenticeship Program is now open, with the company inviting students interested in a career in aircraft assembly to submit the required documentation for consideration. Students or a parent/guardian must live or work in the Florida counties of Indian River, St. Lucie or Brevard, with applications due no later […]

Each aviation generation sees a handful of revolutionary concepts, those leading-edge technologies that, once introduced to the airplane—because they are so game-changing—undergo a transition period before we fully understand the increase in safety that they can provide. Garmin announced today its entry into that rarefied space: the first Autoland system developed exclusively for use in […]

There’s a reason pilots don’t train for some inflight failures. Sometimes those failures are so rare that the likelihood of a pilot encountering them is not deemed worthy of more than a mention during ground school. Then there are those failures for which no solution exists, as was experienced by a designated pilot examiner and […]

Val Miftakhov is a serial clean energy entrepreneur, and his latest enterprise, ZeroAvia, has come out of its hangar in Hollister, California, and into the public eye. A year and a half ago, Miftakhov founded ZeroAvia to develop a solution to fit a particular aviation market niche—10 to 20 seats and a 500-nm trip radius—that […]

Family members of two victims of an August 14, 2016, crash of a Piper Navajo have filed a lawsuit in a District Court in Mississippi claiming air traffic controllers failed to provide the pilot with accurate information, data that plaintiffs say could have prevented the accident. The NTSB found the cause of the accident to […]