Piper PA-32R

Piper Sarotoga II HP (registration: VT-ETL) at IIT Kanpur Flight Laboratory Hangar

The Piper PA-32R is a six or seven seat high-performance, single engine, all-metal, fixed-wing aircraft produced by Piper Aircraft, Vero Beach, Florida, USA. The aircraft is powered by a single Lycoming IO-540-K1G5D 6 cylinder, direct drive, horizontally opposed, air cooled engine. The aircraft is used for personal use, air taxi & freight aircraft. The landing gears are retractable. The early production version of Piper PA-32R are known as Piper Lance, while later models as shown in this blog images are known as Piper Saratoga. Saratoga models provided improved avionics, engine and interior touches but retained the same airframe design. Production of the Saratoga was discontinued in 2009. The PA-32R was built under license by Embraer in Brazil as the Embraer EMB-721 Sertanejo.

Inside the Cockpit

Cockpit Instruments 

Inside the aircraft

Performing Flight Mechanics related experiments with the aircraft

IIT Kanpur Flight Laboratory Hangar (Year-2020)