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Despite the fact that Piper had developed the PA-12 Super Cruiser as a three-seat aircraft, the accommodation for three adults was far from generous and the company soon discovered that it was beginning to lose sales to the lightweight four-seaters being marketed by its competitors. In an attempt to provide an aircraft of four-seat capacity without a resulting large price increase, the company revised the fuselage of the PA-12 to give additional width for four seats and installed an Avco Lycoming O-235-C1 engine. Although the resulting PA-14 Family Cruiser was offered at a keen price it failed to gain any real interest, and when production ended during 1949 a total of only 232 had been built.
| ENGINE | 1 x Avco Lycoming O-235-C1 flat-four piston engine, 86kW |
| WEIGHTS |
| Take-off weight | 839 kg | 1850 lb |
| Empty weight | 454 kg | 1001 lb |
| DIMENSIONS |
| Wingspan | 10.82 m | 35 ft 6 in |
| Length | 7.06 m | 23 ft 2 in |
| Height | 1.96 m | 6 ft 5 in |
| Wing area | 16.66 m2 | 179.33 sq ft |
| PERFORMANCE |
| Max. speed | 198 km/h | 123 mph |
| Ceiling | 3660 m | 12000 ft |
| Range | 805 km | 500 miles |
Frank Hines, fthines(@)aol.com, 28.04.2008
I had the privilage of flying the PA-14 for Cal Worthington Dodge in Southern California in the 60's. He used it for towing banners and for freeway traffic reporting so he got double duty out of the airplane and the pilot as you would do both on the same trip. A job to dream for as was knowing Cal. The aircraft had a Continental 150 HP engine with a fixed pitch prop.
Frank Hines, fthines(@)aol.com, 28.04.2008
I had the privilage of flying the PA-14 for Cal Worthington Dodge in Southern California in the 60's. He used it for towing banners and for freeway traffic reporting so he got double duty out of the airplane and the pilot as you would do both on the same trip. A job to dream for as was knowing Cal. The aircraft had a Continental 150 HP engine with a fixed pitch prop.
Glenn Burt, chipburt(@)hughes.net, 04.10.2007
David Blanton developed a stepdown drive to use a Ford V-6 engine on a PA-22 airframe by extending the fuselage and wings to approximate the PA-14, while qualifying as an experimental aircraft. He did this in part because all the available Family Cruisers had been bought up and taken to Alaska where the were highly popular as bush planes. This occured, unfortunately for the rest of us, about 10 years too late to stimulate new interest in production, from what we can tell.
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