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Glendon Fraser, director of the Newburgh, New York-based Lee A. Archer Jr. Redtail Youth Flying Program, accepted the keys to an appropriately red-tailed Piper Pilot 100i trainer during a ceremony at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh on Tuesday, July 27. Acting President and CEO of Piper Aircraft John Calcagno made the handoff in front of a vintage photograph depicting members of the famed Tuskegee Airmen being briefed for a combat mission. The red-tailed Piper, the first of two ordered in May, was parked in the background.
The aircraft will be the first flown at the Red Tail Academy, the name harking back to the nickname given the World War II-era African American pilots more formally known as the Tuskegee Airmen after the Alabama town where they received their advanced training. In combat, their P-51 Mustang fighters featured blood-red tail feathers, as will the new trainers to be used in the Red Tail Academy. Bomber crews escorted by the �
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Piper debuts Pilot 100i trainer at Sun n’ Fun
16th April 2021 10:30 Europe/London
Piper has shown off its new trainer aircraft, the Piper Pilot 100i, for the first time at this week’s Sun n’ Fun event in Florida.
The company calls the 100i ‘the value priced addition to Piper’s trainer-class line-up’ with a price tag under $300,000. However, the 100i is far from being a bare bones aircraft with a Garmin G3X glass cockpit, digital autopilot, IFR fit, 180hp Lycoming engine and vinyl seats.
Announced two years ago, the 100i received type certification from the FAA in December 2020 and deliveries started immediately with eight aircraft to launch customer American Flyers.
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