Piper PA-60

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Piper PA-60 Aerostar
A Piper Aerostar in Red Deer, Alberta
Type: Business jet
Design country:

United StatesUnited States United States

Manufacturer:

Piper Aircraft Corporation / Ted Smith Aircraft Company

First flight:

1967

Production time:

1968-1984

Number of pieces:

1010

Piper PA-60-600 Aerostar, built in 1977

The Piper PA-60 Aerostar is an American twin-engine light business jet developed by the Ted Smith Aircraft Company , which became part of the Piper Aircraft Corporation after 1978 .

development

Ted Smith flew the first Aerostar 600 in October 1967 . It was a monoplane with two Lycoming piston engines attached to the wings .

A turbocharged version, the Aerostar 601, was also flown .

The planes were built in Van Nuys when the company was bought by the American Cement Company in 1968 . The takeover was unsuccessful, however, and the company was sold back to Butler Aviation in 1969. The new company was called Aerostar Aircraft Corporation and the planes were then produced in Kerrville .

In 1972 Ted Smith bought back all rights to the aircraft so that he could produce more Aerostars, he also introduced the Aerostar 601P . The 601P had engines with more powerful turbochargers for the pressurized cabin. Another variant was the stretched Aerostar 700 Superstar .

In 1976 the company was renamed Ted Smith Aerostar Corporation.

In 1978 the company was taken over by Piper Aircraft Corporation , which continued to produce three variants (600A, 601B and 600P) and later reintroduced the 601P and 602P (also known as Sequoya ). After discontinuing production of non-pressurized models, Piper moved production to Vero Beach , where the last Aerostar was produced in 1984.

variants

600
First production version with two 290 PS (213 kW) Lycoming IO-540-K, 282 copies were built by four different companies.
600A
Model 600 with small details changes.
600E
Designation for aircraft sold in Europe.
601 (later PA-61)
Model 600 with turbo-charged engines, 117 copies.
601B (later PA-61)
Model 601 with enlarged wingspan, 44 copies.
601P (later PA-61P)
Model of the 601 with a pressurized cabin and increased gross weight, 492 copies.
602P Sequoya (later PA-60)
Piper-developed version of the 601P with 290 HP Lycoming TIO-540-AA1A5 engines, 124 copies.
620
Aerostar with pressurized cabin and 310 HP TIO-540 motors, 1 copy.
700 superstar
Prototype with stretched hull and two IO-540M engines.
700P
602P with counter-rotating Lycoming TIO-540-U2A motors, 26 copies, also known as PA-60.
702P
New modification of the 700P with reinforced nose landing gear which enabled a higher take-off weight.
800
601P with stretched fuselage, enlarged stern and two 400 hp Lycoming engines, 1 copy.

Incidents

  • On September 13, 2011, the pilot died in a crash of a PA 60 in Hildesheim, after the machine hardly gained any altitude during takeoff and the pilot tried to return to the airport.
  • On October 17, 2016, a Piper Aerostar crash-landed at Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden Airport (FKB), and the 77-year-old pilot is said to have been seriously injured.
  • On December 10, 2019, the great-grandson of Bahlsen founder Hermann Bahlsen , Alex Bahlsen, crashed in a Piper Aerostar in Vancouver. A total of three people died with him.

Technical data (700P)

Dates from Jane's Civil and Military Aircraft Upgrades 1994-95

  • Crew: 1 pilot
  • Passengers: 5
  • Length: 10.61 m
  • Span: 11.18 m
  • Height: 3.68 m
  • Wing area: 16.56 m²
  • Empty weight: 2112 kg
  • Max. Takeoff weight: 2864 kg
  • Top speed: 527 km / h at 100% power
  • Cruising speed: 416 km / h at 55% power
  • Cruising speed: 453 km / h at 65% power
  • Cruising speed: 483 km / h at 75% power
  • Climbing rate: 9.5 m / s
  • Summit height: 7620 m
  • Range: 1648 km
  • Drive: 2 × Avco Lycoming TIO-540-U2A with each 350 PS (261 kW)

literature

  • The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing
  • Michell, Simon. Jane's Civil and Military Aircraft Upgrades 1994-95 . Coulsdon, UK: Jane's Information Group, 1994. ISBN 0-7106-1208-7 .
  • Simpson, RW Airlife's General Aviation , 1991, Airlife Publishing, ISBN 1-85310-194-X

Web links

Commons : Piper Aerostar  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pilot dies in a crash in Hildesheim. NDR, September 14, 2011, accessed on September 14, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Investigation report. Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation, March 21, 2017, accessed on March 21, 2017 .
  3. ↑ dnw: Heavy injured pilot: plane crashed at Baden-Airpark . In: http://www.regio-news.de/ka/news-feed/26-regio-news-baden-baden/330005-schwer-verletzt-pilot-flugzeug-am-baden-airpark-abgestuerzt.html . ( regio-news.de [accessed on October 17, 2016]).
  4. ↑ Bahlsen legacy dies in a plane crash in Canada. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Bahlsen legacy dies in plane crash. n-tv.de, December 12, 2019, accessed December 12, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Michell 1994, pp. 385-386.