Piper PA-35 Pocono

Autre tentative de "commuter" autours de 15 sièges, le Piper 35 Pocono vu par Wikipedia.en. Merci

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The Piper PA-35 Pocono was an [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] 16/18 seat commuter airliner developed by the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] in the late 1960s.^{[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]}

Only one aircraft was built and the design was not developed.[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]

Design and development

Piper started the design work in 1965 for a twin-engined piston non-pressurised commuter airliner and the prototype first flew on 13 May 1968.

^{[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]} It was a low-wing monoplane that was intended to be powered by two 475 hp (354 kW) [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] piston engines then under development.

It was planned that the aircraft would be built at the new factory at [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] in [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].

Due to problems during development the tail area was increased, the fuselage stretched and the engines uprated to 520 hp (388 kW) variants.

L'unique PA 35

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Development was stopped in 1969 initially to let the company develop other aircraft, but was also influenced by the lack of a suitable engine and a number of third-level airline operators in the United States going out of business.

In 1970 the company proposed a four-engined and turboprop versions but they were not developed.

In about 1978 a cooperation programme between Piper and WSK Mielec (Poland) was planned. As part of this one fuselage with wings was transported from Florida to Poland and a team of designers was assembled at the R&D Center in Mielec.

The programme was named M-19, with designer Tadeusz Widełka as the team leader.

The programme was abandoned when the An-28 programme was launched in Mielec and the PA-35 fuselage was moved to the Technical University in Rzeszów.

Later, probably in 1994, the aircraft was moved to the city of [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].