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Piper Aircraft

and still building

99 Years in business
Founded
1927 in Rochester, New York
Founder
William Piper, Clarence Taylor, Gordon Taylor
Headquarters
Vero Beach, Florida, United States
Parent company
Not recorded
Employees
Not recorded
Products
Light aircraft

About the manufacturer

Piper Aircraft, Inc. is a manufacturer of general aviation aircraft, located at the Vero Beach Regional Airport in Vero Beach, Florida, United States and owned since 2009 by the Government of Brunei. Throughout much of the mid-to-late 20th century, it was considered to be one of the "Big Three" in the field of general aviation manufacturing, along with Beechcraft and Cessna. Between its founding in 1927 and the end of 2009, the company produced 144,000 aircraft in 160 certified models, of which 90,000 are still flying.

This summary is adapted from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence. Build totals and largest customer are our own figures, shown with a source where we hold one.