Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche

PA-30 Twin Comanche
1967 Twin Comanche C/R
General information
TypeCabin monoplane
National originUnited States
ManufacturerPiper Aircraft
Number builtPA-30: 2001
PA-39: 155
History
Manufactured1961–1972
First flightNovember 7, 1962[1]
Developed fromPiper PA-24 Comanche
Turbo PA-30 with tip tanks and vortex generators installed
PA-30 Twin Comanche with modified dorsal fin and modified air intake in nacelles
PA-30 Twin Comanche

The Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche is an American twin-engined cabin monoplane designed and built by Piper Aircraft. It was a twin-engined development of the PA-24 Comanche single-engined aircraft. A variant with counter-rotating propellers was designated the Piper PA-39 Twin Comanche C/R.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ "Piper PA30 PA39 Twin Comanche Aircraft history performance and specifications". Archived from the original on December 3, 2010. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  2. ^ Murphy, Tom and Hans Halberstadt, Illustrated Piper Buyer's Guide, 1993, MBI Publishing / Motorbooks International, Osceola, Wisconsin
  3. ^ Ibold, Ken, ed., Aviation Consumer's Used Aircraft Guide, 9th Edition, vol. 2, 2001, Belvoir Publications, Greenwich, Connecticut
  4. ^ Harris, Richard, "Piper Aircraft: a quick history," Archived December 8, 2018, at the Wayback MachineInFlight USA magazine, 2000–2001, as revised and expanded to 2014, on Aviation Answer-Man, website, retrieved May 11, 2017