Well after a long delay, we’re finally getting around to putting up the Piper Clipper photos we took earlier in the fall. It was another one of those beautiful evenings with great light and a great looking airplane. This is the airplane that won Grand Champion for classic aircraft this year at the Arlington Fly In (the museum’s Ryan ST-A and Mooney Mite also won awards).
We’ve also added a page in the aircraft section for the Clipper. We still have lots of airplanes to add, including the rest of our short wing Piper collection. Once the Vagabond is finished, we’ll have an incredible collection of all the short wing Pipers looking better than they did coming out of the factory.
Our goal is to one day have part of one of our display hangars looking like a Piper showroom with our Colt, Vagabond, Clipper, Pacer and Tri-Pacer all displayed proudly. In the meantime, we’ll have to settle for just flying them in the nice evening light.
Below are just a few more of the photos from the Clipper page.
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Cleve Glover said,
February 11, 2010 @ 8:47 am
Found your site while searching the web. Beautiful plane and beautiful pic. Gives me the urge to fly again. I owned PA16, tail #5649H when I was working for the CAA/FAA in Alaska, at Cape Yakataga, 1957-59. Again, a beautiful plane.
Bob Cline said,
February 16, 2010 @ 3:28 pm
Do you know where I can find a door latch or door latch parts for a 1949 PA-16
Thanks Bob
Addison Austin said,
March 6, 2010 @ 6:32 pm
Many years ago I had N5600H,rebuilt it from a run out.Traveled over most of the eastern US with it,plus Bahamas.Had no trouble carrying 4 in it.It turned out to be faster with 4 aboard,probably because it trimed out better.It was never as fast as adverised.With those big Cub tires was able to land most anywhere,esp. beaches..Really enjoyed it.Based at Danbury,CT.Biggest problem was oil running very hot.It had extra openings in cowl as it had once been a seaplane..People I sold it to ground looped it.