Piper PA-7

PA-7 Skycoupe
Role	Light aircraft
Manufacturer	Piper Aircraft
First flight	1944
Number built	1

The Piper PA-7 Skycoupe was a 1940s American two-seat light aircraft designed and built by Piper Aircraft at Lock Haven. Towards the end of 1944 Piper announced a number of aircraft it intended to build after the war. One of these was the PWA-1 Skycoupe (Post War Airplane 1). A prototype was built in 1943, it was a two-seat side-by-side low-wing cantilever monoplane with a twin-boom fuselage with a tricycle landing gear. It had a Franklin 4ACG-199-H3 engine driving a pusher propeller. In 1945 it was redesignated the PA-7 Skycoupe but no further examples were built.

Specifications (PA-7)

General characteristics

Crew: 2
Wingspan: 30 ft 0 in ( m)
Gross weight: 1597 lb ( kg)
Powerplant: 1 × Franklin 4ACG-199-H3, 113 hp ( kW)

Performance

Maximum speed: 110 mph ( km/h)
Range: 400 miles ( km)

References

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Roger W. Peperell and Colin M.Smith, Piper Aircraft and their forerunners, 1987, Air-Britain (Historians), ISBN 0-85130-149-5, Page 47 and 50.

Piper aircraft

Civilian	E-2 F-2 G-2 H-2 J-2 J-3 (Flitfire) J-4 J-5 M350 M500 M600 PA-6 PA-7 PA-8 PA-11 PA-12 PA-14 PA-15 PA-16 PA-17 PA-18 PA-19 PA-20 PA-22 PA-23 PA-24 PA-25 PA-26 PA-28 PA-29 PA-30 PA-31 PA-31T PA-32 PA-32R PA-33 PA-34 PA-35 PA-36 PA-38 PA-39 PA-40 PA-41 PA-42 PA-44 PA-46 PA-47 PA-60 PiperSport PT-1 PWA-1 PWA-6 PWA-8

Military	AE C-83 HE L-4 L-14 L-18 L-21 LNP NE O-59 PA-48 TG-8 U-7

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